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Published: 2014-11-06 18:00:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 4702; Favourites: 276; Downloads: 28
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AN all colored pencil piece of work (started it early October and have yet to finish it because i only spend a couple of hours on it every week in between commissions and my normal job XD)Media used:
Faber Castell Polychromos
Caran 'd Ache luminance
Smooth bristol paper from canson (A4 size)
Prismacolorless blender marker
Photo ref with permission used from Scotch Macaskill but the background i came up with myself :3
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i miss that time when we were at the same level, you used to call me Demitri-kun and i call you J-chan... and we both were like Vampires, always donate each other blood... now you leave me so far... you keep drawing while i stop and move on with real life... now you overwhelm me with your skills... traditional, digital, sculpt... you can do almost anything... i am proud of you, Jenny. Keep on moving... i always watching you from afar. - sincerely, your Demitri-kun.
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Haha Dimitri-kuuuuuuuuuuun <3 XD i bet you can be proud of yourself to in whatever you have pursued during the years! Sometimes i really have to kick myself away from the drawing table to make sure i am not neglecting life and everyone in it XD So in turn i am proud of you too for doing the things you do :3
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Wow!!!!! So much detail!!!
This is amazing.
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it amasing, i work with prismacolors pencils but youΒ do a different finish, i dont know how. if you see muy gallewy you understand what i mean (im sorry about my english).
Do you have a tutorial?
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you have a very good and quality style of coloring things, i can tell you are experienced with them :3 I don't have tutorials on them yet but i am planning to do short recorded demonstrations soon and will post about them here aswell
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This is great. I tried with Prismacolor and something like Gamsol. But it does not look as real as this. Is the paper important? And what is the difference between Polychromos an Prismacolor?Β
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both paper and colored pencils quality matter, prismas are artist quality pencils, so except for the fact that they break a lot and have bad wood casings you have some quality pencils already, the other one i am not familiar with... paper is important for the look you want to create (also you rather want a thick heavy weight paper for cp's, so the paper can take some beating and wont buckle while drawing, i love using smooth bristol because you can get the finest details down with a minimum grain (because this paper has hardly any texture or so called tooth, the downside is that you cant layer nearly as much as you can with paper with more texture, other good cp papers are bristol vellum (strathmore) Stonehenge cotton paper, fabriano cotton paper, canson mi-teintes and pastel mat. the difference between prismas and polychromos is....well they differ from day and night, both in quality and use, prismas are wax based pencils which are softer and can cover an area quick, polychromos are oil based pencils and because of that they are harder (comparable with prismas verithins) and can be sharpened super sharp so you can draw the finest of details with them, also the polychromos are quality wise superior over the prisma premiers because their leads are super durable, in the 2 years i used polychromos i had none breaking it's lead and no splitting casings while sharpening them while the prismas need to be handeled with utmost care and must be sharpened in certain ways to try and avoid breaking their leads... i have prismacolors myself and i do like them but since i got the caran 'd ache luminance (which are also wax based but far more durable and the most lightfast pencils available) i don't use them so often anymore :/
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Thank you so much. This helps alot.
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I could cry, it's so beautiful and inspiring Β
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Can't wait to see it finished!
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haha probably because art/creating is the one thing in life i love doing most (it's the only thing i have patience for in life XD)
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This is amazing!
it's great to see how you work on the picture.
I thought you would do the BG first and then the bird, but you work from left to right.
Awesome!
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Yeah i like to work in small sections because then for a strange reason i never get to feel overwhelmed at the amount of work that needs to be done, if id do the whole thing at once i would become lost and end up abandoning the piece XD
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Wow! Β This is wonderful work! Β I love your technique, beautifully done!
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This blows me away! I'm speechless (except to say what I'm saying now).
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Whoaaa... 
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When you have artist quality pencils it should not be hard, there are many ways to blend/blur colored pencils, like using a paper stump or paint thinners (applied with a brush) or like i have on this one with colorless blending markers, also when you want something to look blurry don't press to hard, just apply the layers very lightly and blend them with each other :3
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You know, for some reason I had never even heard of a paper stump, let alone realised its amazing potential for traditional pieces. That's definitely something to look into. Thanks a bunch for sharing your knowledge!
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