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Published: 2011-03-26 01:59:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 1417; Favourites: 60; Downloads: 23
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Bright Sound ~
Well, as part of my 'experimental drawings', here you have something different again.
it's my usual style this time, but I worked with two things that haunt me: side-views and...HANDS.
As it's not a secret to anyone, I suck so badly at hands
but this time I decided to fight with this nightmare
and besides, I always wanted to draw something involving only a face and hands
so I did this. I also wanted to practice with watercolor, which is a new medium for me and I only used it once, on the previous work so this was a real challange but I managed to do it, even if for that I had to re-do the drawing (as the first colored version plain suckedD: ). Gotta love watercolors! 
If you listen to the song while seeing this work it will be easy to understand why this song in particular
but there is a concept behind it. the basic idea is that the 'bright sound', the sound she feels that comes from her heart fills everything with color C: did you notice that the flowers on the left side are gray? That is because she hasn't colored them yet with her song.
Yeah, this is kinda crazy but I liked the concept so
I hope you do too!
A special thank-you to `3wyl and `Topicality for helping me with the colors choice! 
Time: +- 11 hours 
Tools: HB, 2B, 0.05 and 0.1 Mitsubishi pigment inks, 100% colored with Faber-Castell watercolors+Photoshop CS2 to fix and adjust colorsC:I loved working with this medium so much. I am pretty sure I'll do loads of works with it in the future
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Comments: 38
I want to add critiques into my page and this looked beautiful, so I thought to critique this.Vision is very lovely. Flowers in her hair and hand look pretty. Rainbow coloured hair is something different and creates fantasy into this picture. I'm not sure about originality but you did this from your head so why wouldn't it be original? Technique is awesome, you really can use watercolours well. Impact is 4,5 because to be honest, I need a pretty perfect picture to give five from all, and I didn't find anything bothering from the three first things. Would an excuse that it only contains face and flowers be good enough to take half star away? You really deserve all the praise and I hope this critique was good.
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that's ok, really!
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Omigosh! I wish I could draw just like you-- bright, colorful, it like GLOWS o_o something I wanna say lol, All great drawings glow, this thing is glowing like the SUN.
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I am sure you will if you practice!
...and this is the second time I use watercolors
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really beautiful
I see your a vary talented traditional media artist
Heres a group for you
Feel free to join
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thank you so much, my dear!
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The first thing I thought when I saw the thumb, oddly, was what a beautiful title! I think the picture really fits it, too β "bright sounds" is a lovely idea. I like the butterfly landing on her hair and the flowers.
I think the hands look fine! Much better than anything I could do 
Her expression is great, too. Like she's trying to capture the sounds of nature.
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Haha, I am glad! I liked this title a lot myself. I like prettiness
Hmm, indeed
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awesome
i love the composition, and the hair is awesome as always
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Oh how pretty!
The colors are so soft and sweet!
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thank you so much, Tajii!
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Ooh, so this is the fabled piece?!
I think you do side views very well... and you should definitely do more of those. The hands could still do with a bit more work, though, perhaps some more shading and a bit of.. thickening where the fingers are concerned.
I really like the colours and how it's quite... light, in a way. It's good that you've deviated from your trademark rainbow self, but.. there is still a good dose of variety here, which makes it more atmospheric, I suppose...
Really nice.
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It is indeed!
Ah, I will try. I really need practice on side-views and such
yeah, I agree:U I need to study handshading harder. I often end doing very few shadings
thank you(: but I think that only happened because I am not used to the medium, so I did lighter stuff just so
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It wouldn't hurt.
Ah... that's fair enough.
I would like to see more heavier stuff, then.
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I think the painting on this is absolutely gorgeous. It looks enchanting! As for critique, I am better at explaining in images than words what could be improved, so I have done this for you: [link]
I hope it helps
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Thank you so much!;_; it looks a lot better irl though, dA totally destroyed the colors OTL looks so plain. It is a lot more colorful:U
thank you so much for that. It toally helps!<33
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I think the hands look really good! And I really love the colors^^
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thank you!
but the colors are a lot more vivid, I wonder why dA decided to screw them up
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No problem^^
Hmm, I donΒ΄t know... Sometimes dA hates our pictures XD
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Hands are so difficult 
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Very beautifull work you have made there my friend! 
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Thanks so much!
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