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Published: 2008-07-29 14:38:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1026; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 13
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Description Haven't been online much the last few weeks, found a summertime job and my boyfriends' Xbox

Anyway, I've been drawing these kind of faery-things for such a long time now, but haven't got a lot of them in my gallery. So I decided to make a decent work featuring one of them.
The fun thing about them is that they never look the same, they all have different markings on them, and quite a lot of them too.
The idea/concept of how they look is mine by the way, I should find a name for them though.

Yes, the proportions are supposed to be off, this isn't a human being, thus not human proportions (only the size-difference in the hands is un-intended).

All the white tattoos are spared out using masquing-fluid, so I didn't just paint them on later.
I did use some white acrylic paint to touch up the lines where needed.

Watercolour, masquing-fluid and a bit of white acryl
About 5 hours.

(this is a photo, so some the colours are slightly different and it's a bit blurry, perhaps I'll scan it later when I can use the school-scanner again)
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Comments: 12

Littlewolfi [2012-02-04 21:03:56 +0000 UTC]

great job sister

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Noss91 [2008-08-25 18:50:09 +0000 UTC]

How nice! I really like it a lot!
The delicate brushstrokes and colorscheme... oj oj!
And the details really nice work!

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Snowowl In reply to Noss91 [2008-08-27 08:07:54 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Noss91 In reply to Snowowl [2008-08-27 09:21:06 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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Haikera-Baiketsu [2008-08-15 12:10:15 +0000 UTC]

Ah, this is really pretty. I love the colours and effects.

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Snowowl In reply to Haikera-Baiketsu [2008-08-16 09:22:38 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Stephanie-Chivas [2008-08-14 20:48:26 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I really like it. It's really creepy, but in a good way... if that makes any sense what-so-ever I love all the markings and the proportions look great, makes it feel otherwordly but still part of this one.

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Snowowl In reply to Stephanie-Chivas [2008-08-16 09:22:30 +0000 UTC]

hehe, thanks
A lot of people find them to be somewhat creepy

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Stephanie-Chivas In reply to Snowowl [2008-08-29 22:54:45 +0000 UTC]

No probs ^_^

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BrennaRaven [2008-08-05 23:12:28 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful use of colour and form I especially love the hands and markings. It's also very nice to see such a unique take on faery type critters ^^

My only crit (and it is only a very small one!) is that the background seems to be very static, where as watercolours have the ability to flow a lot more. I do love your sense of colour though ^^

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Snowowl In reply to BrennaRaven [2008-08-07 08:09:59 +0000 UTC]

thank you for the comment
I'm still leaning on how to work with watercolour, so thank you for the crit, I'll keep it in mind next time

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BrennaRaven In reply to Snowowl [2008-08-07 21:34:32 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome ^^'

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