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Published: 2006-07-26 14:30:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 498; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 9
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Description
Media: Drawn with pencilInked with Staedtler Pigment Liners (0.1mm, 0.3mm, 0.5mm)
Digitally colour with Photoshop CS
Time Spent: Drawing-1 hour
Lining-20 mins
CG-4 hours
Total- app. 5.5 hours
I think I actually drew and inked this around December last year... (8 months ago?) But I didn't really find enough time (and patience) to colour it until... like... a week ago. So yea, after so long, I am finally done ^_^. Enjoy!
Come to think of it, it's been a while since I last used Photoshop to colour anything... And it's been a while since I submitted any Anime art into dA... maybe i should do it more often... hm...
*ponders*
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Comments: 25
Well, nice coloring on the face, eyes and hood/collar. fur, hair and arms (oh, where are they....) need some more patience
Anyway good work!
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I'd say you did an excellent job of coloring this one. The shadows on his face are well defined, and I really like the clean, multi-layered shading on his hair and jacket. I think that would look even better if there were a few white highlights along the zipper, to make it look more metallic. As for the drawing, the lineart is very clean, and what catches my eye the most as far as that goes, is the varied line weights around the edges of the coat, and the way his face still stays well centered at a 3/4 angle. (that may not sound like much, but I know it can be hard to do that consistently; skewed faces is one of the most common human errors. 
One more question, just so I can get a better understanding of this- are his arms at his sides, or are they behind his back?
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Hm... you're right... even I can't tell if the arms are at his sides or behind his back...
Thank you so much for your comment! I'll try to improve my positioning for the next time I do something like this...
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No problem! Thanks for posting on my forum! As for those arms, a good rule of thumb is to have the the minimum thickness for the arms be the same as the width of the neck; if that helps.
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yep, that helps ^_^. I lean something every day...
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And that's how it should be for all of us. 
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Yay, it's Haru! You drew and colored him very well!
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Haru look so cute!
i don't really see any faults that i can comment on!
^_^
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yep! I like haru best from Fruits Basket ^_^
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Wow, awesome Haru!!! I love the coloring and effects! The fur ruff is very striking - it kind of looks like the ocean waves in old Japanese paintings. Very cool!
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thx for the compliments!
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Awww... cute dude
I really love how you shaded the skin and the hair! The folds on the clothing doesn't look that realistic though... but everything else is good! And yes, update more 
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lol I wish I was less impatient... But I keep finding faults with it, and keep NOT finishing it... so yea, I can't CG efficiently... And I can't understand you greater beings who can do a gazillion CGs and have them looking like masterpieces...
*sigh*... gotta work on clothing folds... yea, I was questioning myself whether or not they looked like ribcages etched out... -.-
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lol... well, the first few CGs are always a pain to complete... but after, the process is less painful. It's tempting to stop working on something that isn't perfect, but completing something imperfect is better than not finishing it at all, right?
'you greater beings'? I just got into CGing recently, so... maybe =Kaze-Hime is one of those 'greater beings' you're talking about
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omg... dA makes me feel so bad... xD
yea, when I saw blackeri's art, I just wanted to print out every single one of them...
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Yeah, I know how you feel >_< Especially when all these people have like a million pageviews and we only have a few hundreds T_T
Yes, sometimes I obsess about pageviews XD
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lol... you have more than me, xD... I have ONE hundred... singular... xD.
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lol... but you don't update as much as I do (until recently, that is) XD
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true, I mass-updated in January though... like 3 pix per day...>.<... maybe I should even them out...xD
I'm not very good at marketing...-.-
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