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Ok... I think she finished.... I think...
So here is the more serious digital painting I've been working one, with still using one of my line arts... i was experimenting with different things on this and I'm still learning, so please be nice 
The Egyptians, believe it or not, could actually have red hair at times, so that's what I did here. It was also discovered that they could be blonde too.. but I'm sure that was very rare, and probably not like light blonde most people think of, probably very dirty blonde.I know lately I've been uploading just digital works, but i assure you that I have traditional ones underway
Here is the line art: myworld1.deviantart.com/art/Quβ¦
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no one in particular, just a design idea
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Hey its Ny been a while I can't send a note to you it won't let me. But hey I'm trying to go to india and I'm trying to raise a few 1000$ any suggestions?
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I also don't go on as often as i used to and don't check my note too much. Um.. I would suggest either asking family and friends to help fund you, if you have a job set aside a certain amount from your paycheck that you do not touch, that might take a while but it works. Or start a 'go fund me'. What's the reason you want to go to india? my friend made her goal with a go fund me to get her to New Zealand.
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Very lovely.Β
The only reason why most Egyptians didn't want red hair was because it was associated with Seth, the god of chaos.
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thanks
that makes sense.. though, I do remember reading about a queen that was depicted with red hair when i was looking up egyptian hair... but I dont remember who she was
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Still she's beautiful
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Wow, she looks so majestic, this is beautiful!
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Wow, this is just SO much better than my version, hahah!! Β Β
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No! I love you're version! It's so pretty! Yours had that beautiful background and i love that is was done traditionally
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You seem to know much about Egyptians so why was it rare to have blonde hair and red? Also beautiful drawing you captured everything nicely.
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Actually i was recently told that before the Greeks populated Egypt it was pretty common to see Egyptians with red and blonde hair. I thought that was pretty neat
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While I enjoy the insanely detailed and grainy quality of your traditional pieces a bit more, this is definitely awesome! Love how you design the jewellery.
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You are incredible, such lovely colours and attention to details!
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Very nicely done!
How did you learn how to draw digitally? I want to learn it, too, but I don't know where to start...
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Thank you!
First I would suggest getting an art tablet, mines is a Wacom Intuos tablet small. It may be small but it works just fine. Tablets aren't the cheapest, but it's not very easy to do it with the mouse. Better control with the pen. I use the free program GIMP 2. It has everything i need to color.Β I also know of several other digital artist who use it so you don't need to go out and spend too much on something like Photoshop or Corel Painter. And just start playing around with the program before any serious paintings.. I used GIMP before i started painting with it, just to do edits to pictures or to put pictures together and that sort of thing. Also you could do what i'm doing and practice on line arts to get the hang of blending things and such before doing a drawing of your own. You already have a very good grasp of of technique, shades, and color from working with physical mediums. I think everyone should get to know what they're doing in the hand on stuff before moving to digital.. it makes things alot easier. Cause then you're just learning how to use another tool.
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Wacom Intuos Tablet - Check (My boyfriend gave me one for my last birthday... That was back in december, but I never got the time to use it so far...)
GIMP - Check (I use it for everything I do digitally, for example for photo editing and so on...)
So it seems all I need is time to try out things. I think I'll start with linearts as you've suggested, but I don't know how to start with coloring. Maybe I should look if there are some good tutorials here or at youtube...?
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Awesome! Yeah... i had mine for about a year before i really started using it
Great, so you're already familiar with it
Yeah... that's the best way to learn, just experimenting. Youtube is probably a good idea, they should have a lot of tutorials.. there might even be some good ones her in dA. What i do it use the same technique i use with mm traditional works. I pic a base color, put that in, and then put in the darker or light shades as needed. some people use several layers.. i just use one.. well, actually two for the line arts. the first layer is the background layer that i color on and then the line art layer is over it(i usually put it on the filter multiply or burn) I suggest you color in the background color first before you do any other coloring, like you would with a traditional painting.
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Wow that is gorgeous, you coloring is beautiful!
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thank you so much!!!
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This is amazing! 
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It must have took you a huge amount of time, good job ! I think red hair suits her very well
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It took me a couple of days.. and several hours on those days
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a sovereign headdress is what EVERY Woman needs
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I love all the details on her and I love the info you included in the comments about the hair.Β Great job!
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Thank you! And glad you like it!
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Actually most of the 18th and 19th dynasty pharaohs were red-heads and blondes. The natives of north Africa were described by the Egyptians as having red hair and blue eyes. They were identified as the people of Set, the God of destruction and chaos.Β It wasn't until the Roman period that the population of Northern Africa began to become what it is today. Egypt was a little different. According to Zahi Hawiss the genetic component of Egypt today is 95% compatible with the genetic component of the "pyramid age."
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Cool! Thanks for letting me know, that's really cool to know!
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Oh My Goddess!!!
(if you feel you need more practice, I have line arts that need beautiful coloring!
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