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Does it qualify as a Friday-doodle-day thingie if I started it Monday?
I almost never draw anything these days without some sort of back story in my head... but these, I was trying to capture the moment and they just popped out... a simple freehand doodle that grew a 2nd head.
Everything.... line-art, colours, tones; done in OpenCanvas3.
^^;; first time ever using the bugger.... I don't think I'll be doing that again any time soon.
It made me realize there is something disastrously wrong with the colours on my monitor... or rather there is something wrong with every other monitor in the universe and mine is perfect.
Either way, I doubt I'll be cg-ing anything again for a loooooong time. Ah, 'cept for one picture I'm almost finished.
This is a piece of gift-art to... well, anyone actually viewing this picture right now. Whatever colour, creed, faith or festivity you and yours hold fast to, this is for you. Yeah, you.
The best thing is with these steadfast nymphs working away on granting my wish... it's bound to come true, even if it's not so obvious to you.
Really is nifty how it all works out that way. =^_^=
I almost never draw anything these days without some sort of back story in my head... but these, I was trying to capture the moment and they just popped out... a simple freehand doodle that grew a 2nd head.
Everything.... line-art, colours, tones; done in OpenCanvas3.
^^;; first time ever using the bugger.... I don't think I'll be doing that again any time soon.
It made me realize there is something disastrously wrong with the colours on my monitor... or rather there is something wrong with every other monitor in the universe and mine is perfect.
Either way, I doubt I'll be cg-ing anything again for a loooooong time. Ah, 'cept for one picture I'm almost finished.
This is a piece of gift-art to... well, anyone actually viewing this picture right now. Whatever colour, creed, faith or festivity you and yours hold fast to, this is for you. Yeah, you.
The best thing is with these steadfast nymphs working away on granting my wish... it's bound to come true, even if it's not so obvious to you.
Really is nifty how it all works out that way. =^_^=
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*hugglesnugs* Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Yule, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy St. Stephen's Day, Happy Boxing Day, and everything else.
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I printed the holiday picture out.
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Well shit me, maybe it's because I'm Jewish?... *thinks* yeah.
It's beautiful! I wish I could print it out and put that in my office too, next to Shaoran (right? that was his name) but I don't think he wants any company. (and my printer doesn't work)
:D
I love you
You're the greatest
I think I'm in love again!
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I dun think Shaoran (or Syaoran, depending on the translation) would mind it so much. He's friendlier than he lets on.
Love you, too.
I'm still amazed that after all these years I can still manage to astonish you.
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Happy (insert your favourite holiday here) to you!
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that is gorgous. I love the colouring, which reminds me of fire and ice.
I hope you are okay and that life is treating you kindly
lots of love to you
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Thank you, as always, for your thoughts and well-wishes. I am grateful for them.
*warm & squishy*
I hope your new year is filled to the brim with all sorts of goodness and joy.
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I promise I won't take my holiday on cg-ing until I'm 100% done with EVERYTHING I've got pending.
*crosses heart & hopes to die*
=^__^=
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Are you going to make it into a wallpaper? It would make such a gorgeous one.
*clings to your brilliance*
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I dunno.
I hadn't thought about it.
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Great minds think alike! And great minds know a brilliant potential wallpaper when they see it. I know I'd have it up for weeks.
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(And there's an openCanvas *3* now? Ooh, cool. Must download.)
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(Most every one who upgraded to OC.3 regretted it due to the new nifty lack of options... but what are you gonna do)
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Since I don't celebrate Christmas either, I'd be happy for you to except it as is. Although, the thought of more good-natured gift-art floating around would be lovely.
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Great pic as always, Val
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Shame I won't be able to meet up with you while you're round.... from Monday on I've no clue where I'm going to be, sometimes Queens, sometimes brooklyn, sometimes hell. Maybe we'll meet up some other time not so fashionably holiday oriented toward mayhem, you know.
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Re: Great pic as always, Val
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This time around maybe a little bit more planned out ^^;;
Ol' Granny!Sidhe can't be runnin' 'round so much these days.
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Beauty, however, I can never get enough of. I need a storybook to put this in - bind it in leather and singe the edges with a candle and... yes. It's that kind of lovely.
It's amusing to me that after having had rhapsodies about your black-and-white art, I should now tumble just as hard for your coloring. Maybe not all that surprising, really - you color like you draw, full of small details and implications, in that way that I've found to be peculiar to those who draw line art, and I love it.
Seriously, what is it? Does already being familiar with the important outlines make it easier to see where the shading should be? Is it a kind of topographical map in your head? Of course, that wouldn't explain your apparently innate ability to use contrast to its best, and therefore least obvious, effect. Argh.
All of which in combination goes to creating that frustrated kind of happiness that I'm rapidly beginning to associate with your art, a mix of visceral 'god, so lovely' and intellectual 'parts, whole, what - how?'.
It's confusing, but addictive. *grins*
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To be fair, I can count the number of coloured pieces I've ever completed on one hand.
It's a newer endeavour and I'm not terribly good at it (which is why it takes me days and days and days to finish up even the tiniest doodle).
Hm, I don't know that exact quality of line-art can make that much of a difference with this Open Canvas... I know it makes a world of difference when I use Photoshop, if that means anything at all. I only ever really like cg-ed images when they're done, because working from line-art to finish product feels so much more like a matter of science... analyzing light and cool colours, measuring contrast and light sources.
I guess because it feels like so much work is also why it takes so long and I try not to do it too often.
I wish I had nearly as much art in my works as you have in your words ^_^
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*cocks head* And why should you being new at it make it any less stunning? I fear that you are using the type of logic that is...not.
I don't think it's the quality of line-art, it's a whole mindset. The delicate colors, the techniques, the indefinable quality that makes me think of old woodcuts... I've seen it before and always, always, in the work of people who started with line art. You're part of a tradtion here, I think, and you do your ancestors proud.
Also, I find it fascinating that you actually think about it so analytically. It's so opposite to the way I work. I start with large blobs of color and work from lightest to darkes, tweaking like anything as I go along, but rarely with any kind of plan. Like, for example, I've been working on a short animation and at the moment it's very... unformed (http://xanadu-dreams.com/drawings/rain2.gif). Next comes hair, then glasses, then details, and so on. Even so, it'll never be as detailed as yours. I yearn for the unknown, apparently. *laughs*
I wish I had nearly as much art in my works as you have in your words ^_^
*looks abashed* I am sorry about that, by the way. I have a personal ethos of a sort, which is best expressed as a commitment to telling anyone who brings me happiness exactly how I feel. Unfortunately, this happiness tends to be modulated by the person in question... Digikym makes me slightly raunchy, Addictedkitten makes me incoherent, Aome makes me thoughtful, and you seem to bring out the lyrical elements in me.
I blame you entirely, by the way. *grins*
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Eventually it dawns on me I should figure out where arms and legs and such are supposed to be ^^;;
Probably explains while all my hands and limbs then turn out disproportionately huge.
I'd never be able to capture the realism you capture so effortlessly with your method.
I would be jealous of it if I weren't so blown over by it, constantly.
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*goes into standard jealousy-rant*
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I think I'm going to make card of this and send them out sometime later
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