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So this is a super long overdue entry for my own exchange, ShinXChange . Unfortunately, I had some super horribad prioritization when I picked this up. I only had this image and one personal image on my plate and I thought "I will do my exchange after my personal image" and then I drew the Shinerai picture that I totally didn't intend to spend 100 hours on.

I thought about stopping in the middle to do this one but I was so fed up with my hard drive dying and the monotony of the Shin picture that I was afraid I'd never come back to it if I stopped. Of course this isn't an excuse for being late on my own exchange, but it is a little bit of an explanation.

The character pictured belongs to Ardengrail and has the same name. She is super cute and has a relatively simple design, so I thought I would try to stop failing at Copic markers to give her a try. But the ShinXChange requires at least a simple background, so I couldn't leave the BG blank; thinking of this scene was almost as hard as illustrating it.

I think this is the best Copic piece I've done so far, if you've seen the other things in my gallery. I still have a long way to go, but I learned many things. what I learned is to start out with the light color and layer your shadows darker and darker onto it. It's easy if you do your first layer of shadows using the same color you laid your flats with. It'll still darken the color but not so much that it's intimidating. The reason it's easier to start lighter is that you can keep adding colors all day long as much as you want. Just keep getting darker and darker and darker with it. I like to get some of my dark details carved in and then if I feel like my shadows are getting too blotchy, I'll take a lighter color and just go over the whole thing with a big shadow. It'll blend the dark colors a bit and you can crispen your details with even darker colors after that. You can use all kinds of shades too, just go crazy with the shades. I have some green and blue and yellow on that tree.

I guess, what I'm trying to say, is that I learned if you start light you can just keep layering the Copics as much as you want and as long as your paper can handle the markers without getting wavy, you don't have to hold back. Just keep pushing the colors around until you like them.

DetailsMaterials.
Copic Markers
white acrylic
Zebra F-301 ballpoint pen
tan/yellow stationery (from Target)

Dimensions.
4 x 5 inches

Time Spent.
unknown

Reference

CopyrightArdengrail © Ardengrail
Artwork © Shinerai my face!

Description
Description Name suggested by siliconfanatic c:

So this is a super long overdue entry for my own exchange, ShinXChange . Unfortunately, I had some super horribad prioritization when I picked this up. I only had this image and one personal image on my plate and I thought "I will do my exchange after my personal image" and then I drew the Shinerai picture that I totally didn't intend to spend 100 hours on.

I thought about stopping in the middle to do this one but I was so fed up with my hard drive dying and the monotony of the Shin picture that I was afraid I'd never come back to it if I stopped. Of course this isn't an excuse for being late on my own exchange, but it is a little bit of an explanation.

The character pictured belongs to Ardengrail and has the same name. She is super cute and has a relatively simple design, so I thought I would try to stop failing at Copic markers to give her a try. But the ShinXChange requires at least a simple background, so I couldn't leave the BG blank; thinking of this scene was almost as hard as illustrating it.

I think this is the best Copic piece I've done so far, if you've seen the other things in my gallery. I still have a long way to go, but I learned many things. what I learned is to start out with the light color and layer your shadows darker and darker onto it. It's easy if you do your first layer of shadows using the same color you laid your flats with. It'll still darken the color but not so much that it's intimidating. The reason it's easier to start lighter is that you can keep adding colors all day long as much as you want. Just keep getting darker and darker and darker with it. I like to get some of my dark details carved in and then if I feel like my shadows are getting too blotchy, I'll take a lighter color and just go over the whole thing with a big shadow. It'll blend the dark colors a bit and you can crispen your details with even darker colors after that. You can use all kinds of shades too, just go crazy with the shades. I have some green and blue and yellow on that tree.

I guess, what I'm trying to say, is that I learned if you start light you can just keep layering the Copics as much as you want and as long as your paper can handle the markers without getting wavy, you don't have to hold back. Just keep pushing the colors around until you like them.

DetailsMaterials.
Copic Markers
white acrylic
Zebra F-301 ballpoint pen
tan/yellow stationery (from Target)

Dimensions.
4 x 5 inches

Time Spent.
unknown

Reference

CopyrightArdengrail © Ardengrail
Artwork © Shinerai my face!