I managed to apply the artbeta input, correct my pencils, and ink my lineart. So now I'll just have to manage to color it before the deadline Sunday. (Somehow I had stuck in my head that the deadline was the 29th when it is the 25th and was said so in multiple places and confirmations -- well at least I noticed before the deadline actually passed ( Read more... )

I'm wondering whether I should sign up for secret_mutant this year. It'll have quite a tight schedule, with just five weeks between getting the assignment and its due date, and I already signed up for
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There doesn't seem to be a yuletart this year, so I'm lacking a holiday exchange. I looked at
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Considering the many, many hours my recently revealed yuletart picture took, I thought I ought to get more than one post out of it... ;)

( picture heavy art process post )

Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairings: Arthur, Merlin, Gwen, Gaius, Elyan, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sir Leon, guards
Media used: Acrylic paint on paper; original size is roughly 34 x 32cm; scanned in parts and assembled digitally with some minor corrections in GIMP (hopefully not too noticeable). For more detail, see the process post.
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Well, you can take a look too, I guess. :D

And you should, because I got very cool, gen Merlin art, that suggest a story of magical fighting in the future.

...I've submitted my Yuletart piece. I had to ask for an extension, because even though I started painting my pencils one and a half weeks ago, I only finished today. And that despite working on it for several hours every day. And it doesn't even look like it took that much effort. I don't want to know how long this took in total, including the ( Read more... )

I have the preliminary pencils for my Yuletart piece. I need an artbeta to take a look at it before I transfer it to the expensive paper. After drawing and redrawing so many things, I probably wouldn't notice right now if I had drawn someone with a third arm ( Read more... )

One of the moments to wish for roommates: you find yourself tediously posing for some position, trying to catch yourself on autotimer with your crappy camera, and not just that, but actually half-naked because it turns out that if you photograph yourself wrapped in two layers, one of it a cozy, thick fleece, you can't easily deduce how the limb ( Read more... )