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Published: 2010-06-05 17:10:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1031; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 22
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This is my contribution to Drawing Day 2010 (today)! Its supposed to be an elf taking the opportunity of a masquerade to blend into the human crowd hoping that her slitted eyes and pointy ears will just look like part of her disguise!This took about 3 hours to paint in Photoshop. I had a lot of fun painting this! The anatomy isnt spot on but, I still like it. Its nice to paint something a bit different now and again
I wanted to try something a bit more difficult, and outside the box of what I usually paint, and I'm glad I did! I tried really hard on the dress (after doing a similar style in this picture - [link] - I think the effect came out much better this time!), and also on the mask. I'm pretty pleased with how that came out. Yay sparkles and yay detail and yay for using interesting lighting for a change!
Anyway, its teatime, I'm hungry, 'nuff said
Enjoy!
Official Drawing Day website: [link]
DA article about drawing day: [link]
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You can see the part repaint/touchup of this piece here:
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Comments: 27
Lovely work! such a beautiful piece with a great level of detail to the mask and clothing, as well as some great colours! The mask is perhaps a little out of place- I think it may be due to a lack of shadows around the edges of it.
However, you've done a beautiful job with the colours and background. Great job!
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Thank you very much 
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This gets the imagination running. A beautiful elf waiting at a mascarade...
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Aw, the sparkles! :D It looks lovely~ β₯ The colours are so bright and eye-catching, and her eyes look really vivid <333
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Lovely! What a pretty light! I especially like the intricate design of her mask!
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Woah, neat! I love the colour scheme you used in this, it's very warm and lovely. Your shading is gorgeous and I'll never tire of the way you draw hair, haha. I also LOVE love love the detail on her mask! That looks so great, man! I think, though, it could benefit if you put a little more drop-shadow on the mask? Because as it is, it looks a little like it's just floating in front of her face, rather than covering it. But that's the only critty-thing I noticed, the rest is fantastic. Awesome work, m'love! :D
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Thanks Moss! 
<33333
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Yeah, it could do with a SMIDGE more, but everything is totally fine. LOOKS GREAT man! 8D <3
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Hey cool ...your pic is pretty epic and colourful, did it take you all day? - I think I shoulda found out about this earlier so I could plan in advance!
I've submitted something but it is very much a Drawing 
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Thanks! ^_^ Took about three hours in one drawing session yesterday aft
I will head on over to see what you posted ^_^ Oooh youre working on a comic of it? Exciting! Cant wait to see!
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3 hours constant? I like painting/drawing sessions like that, although they are becoming rare 
hehe, well I'm working on trying to find the best way to put 3 things I have in my head into comic form - I've done some sketches of what I want, I just need to figure out how I'm framing each bit
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Theyre rare for me too to be able to sit down for any length of time so I really enjoyed it all the more
Well, I hope you get it to work, and I cant wait to see it! <3
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Yeah I use Painter mostly ...most people use Photoshop as it has more functions, but Painter has a wide selection of brushes and just feels lovelier to paint with!
I use PaintShopPro-9 instead of Photoshop, which basically does the same thing, but again the painting tools suck!
I feel like such a waster the past few days ...see this is what work-tiredness and Hayfever are doing to me
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I've heard painter is by far the best painting program with all the brush selections (although Photoshop CS5 is trying to make massive leaps and bounds to catch up in this area) but I'm just never tried it 
I did start out using GIMP (ugggh awful! I had a right glitchy version, I could only ever save things on a single layer so I had to do everything in a single sitting - nightmare!) but after switching to PS I've never used anything else
Aww boo hayfever 
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Painter is quite revered by artists! I'm glad I discovered it ....if you happen on a copy (sneaky methods?) definitely get some use out of it, 'cos it rocks.
I use Paint Shop Pro instead of Photoshop. But PS is supposedly better.
Painter specialises in, well, paint. But for that it is tons better than both of them, by a wide margin!
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