Very nice! Ohhh, you should do more pencil work. Your cloth folds are absolutely lovely. I love Reghat's appraising look.
And I love mechanical pencils too. To be honest, my usual pencils for drawing are those cheap little ones you get in packs of 6 or 8 like for high school, and my erasers are the mechanical clicky ones, again like you buy for school. I have a set of nice Faber-Castell drawing pencils, and nice kneaded rubber and Bienfang erasers, but...*shrug*.
I never use drawing pencils. I don't like the weight of them without the eraser, and if I'm doing anything where I don't want the tight detail a mechanical pencil allows, chances are I'm doing life drawing and would rather use charcoal or chalk.
Given my lack of time for computer painting, you'll probably see more pencil work. I usually capture expressions and lines that later get lost in the painting, so I'm kinda glad for the excuse not to go that far.
Well, hurrah for Terran if he makes you do more pencil drawings. :) Of course, your computer art expertise is amazing, but the old traditionalist in me can't help it--I get a certain visceral satisfaction out of "manual" art, and the lines of it always seem to ring truer to my vision. The very unretractableness of physical media really forces you to choose your lines with care, I think.
Ooohhh yay! Prydain makes me happy. What a nice moment to capture. I am really impressed by the way you depicted movement and interaction between the two figures as well as realistic drapery. No small feat.
I'm glad you chose this moment--gives us a sense of what Angharad would look like. Good job on her clothes, too. I have trouble figuring out the fashions of Prydain; the European middle ages spawned bizarre styles at various points, which I hope didn't happen in Prydain. I assume not--I doubt Lloyd Alexander had strange headdresses in mind. Still, what do the men wear? We hear a lot about jackets--and, indeed, it's amazing what some guys keep in there (doesn't Taran come back from the Commots with a clay bowl in his?). Anyway, another thing my relentless realist mind would love to know more about . . .
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Very nice! Ohhh, you should do more pencil work. Your cloth folds are absolutely lovely. I love Reghat's appraising look.
And I love mechanical pencils too. To be honest, my usual pencils for drawing are those cheap little ones you get in packs of 6 or 8 like for high school, and my erasers are the mechanical clicky ones, again like you buy for school. I have a set of nice Faber-Castell drawing pencils, and nice kneaded rubber and Bienfang erasers, but...*shrug*.
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Given my lack of time for computer painting, you'll probably see more pencil work. I usually capture expressions and lines that later get lost in the painting, so I'm kinda glad for the excuse not to go that far.
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What a nice moment to capture.
I am really impressed by the way you depicted movement and interaction between the two figures as well as realistic drapery. No small feat.
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I'm glad you chose this moment--gives us a sense of what Angharad would look like. Good job on her clothes, too. I have trouble figuring out the fashions of Prydain; the European middle ages spawned bizarre styles at various points, which I hope didn't happen in Prydain. I assume not--I doubt Lloyd Alexander had strange headdresses in mind. Still, what do the men wear? We hear a lot about jackets--and, indeed, it's amazing what some guys keep in there (doesn't Taran come back from the Commots with a clay bowl in his?). Anyway, another thing my relentless realist mind would love to know more about . . .
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