Oh, thank you :). I did a lot of experimenting on the texture, I'm really glad it came out the way it did. And I loved the whole color scheme, too. Thanks for commenting!
Also, I adore your own art and I hope it's ok for you that I just friended you? I'd love to see more of all that pretty. I think both covers for "Traces" are especially gorgeous, by the way. You're really good!
You are too kind. I'm pretty new to digital painting, so my art skills are very much a work-in-progress :). You mentioned drawing the animals on paper (great detail, by the way) - do you have a background in traditional art?
Glad we can mutually share the pretties :D. I think because I've only seen you around the SPN Gen BB, I thought you were a gen only fan. I was ready to warn you about all my slashy (and sometimes kinky) content! But I'm thrilled to see you actually hang around the same water coolers *g*
Wow, your work is even more impressive now that I know you're still new to digital art! Although you can rest assured, it might feel like a work in progress to you, but it certainly doesn't look like it :). Erm, to be perfectly honest though, I'm no expert at it myself so maybe I'm not the best to judge yet. I still love your art, though, and that's what counts, right
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Most of my art experience in real life is realism with graphite and charcoal, so that's why digital drawing irks me - I haven't gotten there yet! Right now, I'm just trying different drawing & coloring techniques that I find around the web. One problem is that I'm not a patient person, so I have a hard time sitting down and mapping out each detail and working so many layers
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Ha, I think being patient is the only thing I've had working for me from the get go. But when the files turn into little monsters of several hundred layers, I can almost feel my left eye twitching while I'm praying for the program not to crash ;). Now I'm definitely saving files like crazy, too. Lesson learned.
When I was fourteen or so (my god, I feel old now), I actually made my own charcoal "pencils" by slowly burning down these thin wooden sticks you use to spear food on (no idea what they're called in English) - without the food, of course :). That was a lot of fun. Huh. I should totally try that again. When I'm not so busy. Maybe next year. Do you share pictures of your non digital art on your journal, too?
Did you honestly finish eleven art pieces in the last few weeks? That's a lot of art, hun! No wonder you probably had to prioritize and thus couldn't spend equal amounts of attention to all of them. But at least with the Reversebang pieces there's the opportunity to keep working on them - I bet they're already gorgeous,
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Fourteen - gah! I was born mid-80s too, and I can't believe how many people I meet now who are younger than me. I was spoiled by being the youngest in my classes
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Oh yes, please have a look for those scans. I'd love love love to see them!
Yeah, I'm not spending much of my free time doodling, either. First I just stopped doing art as a whole, like, nine or ten years ago (when RL became such a demanding thing) and now that I'm trying my hand at it again, I hardly have any (free time, that is). I'm kinda working on art for all these challenges from the moment I am done with RL until I fall asleep. Everyday. Huh. I swear, I used to have more of a social life before this whole fandom thing.
I so envy you. Sometimes I'm like that too, all screw feelings of inadequacy, but mostly I'm, erm, not. But, oh well. I hope that'll get easier when there's a little more routine and a little less trial-and-error to what I'm doing ;).
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Also, I adore your own art and I hope it's ok for you that I just friended you? I'd love to see more of all that pretty. I think both covers for "Traces" are especially gorgeous, by the way. You're really good!
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Glad we can mutually share the pretties :D. I think because I've only seen you around the SPN Gen BB, I thought you were a gen only fan. I was ready to warn you about all my slashy (and sometimes kinky) content! But I'm thrilled to see you actually hang around the same water coolers *g*
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When I was fourteen or so (my god, I feel old now), I actually made my own charcoal "pencils" by slowly burning down these thin wooden sticks you use to spear food on (no idea what they're called in English) - without the food, of course :). That was a lot of fun. Huh. I should totally try that again. When I'm not so busy. Maybe next year. Do you share pictures of your non digital art on your journal, too?
Did you honestly finish eleven art pieces in the last few weeks? That's a lot of art, hun! No wonder you probably had to prioritize and thus couldn't spend equal amounts of attention to all of them. But at least with the Reversebang pieces there's the opportunity to keep working on them - I bet they're already gorgeous, ( ... )
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Yeah, I'm not spending much of my free time doodling, either. First I just stopped doing art as a whole, like, nine or ten years ago (when RL became such a demanding thing) and now that I'm trying my hand at it again, I hardly have any (free time, that is). I'm kinda working on art for all these challenges from the moment I am done with RL until I fall asleep. Everyday. Huh. I swear, I used to have more of a social life before this whole fandom thing.
I so envy you. Sometimes I'm like that too, all screw feelings of inadequacy, but mostly I'm, erm, not. But, oh well. I hope that'll get easier when there's a little more routine and a little less trial-and-error to what I'm doing ;).
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