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Blackberry costumes

by Startear

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I've always wanted to do images showing the different clothes my characters are using, and decided to try one for real. Summer and winter. This took me three days. I wish I was joking. I had to find a pose I liked, decide body type, ink it, trace it three times, discard one, then costume design, then color design.  I looked so much at BoTC comics, trying to figure out ones that would work.

She is called Blackberry, and was in my fanfic, leaving home, which took place when she was a child. Her bio isn't done yet, but she lived through Skyfire's time until Freefoot's.

Posted February 23, 2016, 11:08:30 PM



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The death of Nightst… Threetoe Blackberry costumes Ekah revamp kinda Toadstool
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Treefox

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Comment #1 - Posted February 24, 2016, 01:43:27 AM
I am a fan of these earthy colors, especially as they go so well with her skin colors. A very nice pose! Can I have that winter outfit now? Looks so snug!

Startear

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Comment #2 - Posted February 25, 2016, 03:15:54 AM
I'm glad you like it! I used so much time trying to figure out colors and shapes that made sense. The BoTC comics show the characters in colors that literally makes no sense at all, considering that it was Tanner who really figured out how to get the softest furs and colors. It was a challenge to create something simple yet practical. So many browns... also, I listened to a history podcast about colors, did you know yellow was one of the first colors ever used as dye?

Treefox

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Comment #3 - Posted February 25, 2016, 04:30:31 AM
Yeah, the designs in BotC were not all that brillant... It varied as the artists did, of course.
About the yellow, I had no idea. Do you know what they used to achieve those first yellow tones? Well, urine springs to mind, but I am not sure that would be enough to achieve a real yellow... hm.

Startear

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Comment #4 - Posted February 25, 2016, 07:14:31 AM
Haha, I see why. And you know, Tanner discovered that human pee really made skins soft... haha! Can you imagine trying to tell the others in your tribe that we need to risk our safety for getting soft soft skins... HAHAHA!

Apparently us humans used a variation of plants, like onion skin, pomegranate rinds, saffron, turmeric... and a plant called reseda. In Europe and Asia we know it was used since before the Iron Age, and the native Americans used a whole variations of plants, like butternut, rose hip, rabbitbush, etc.

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Comment #5 - Posted March 14, 2016, 06:53:28 AM
Reading of these dyes makes me hungry! *laughs*
Thinking of red beet it must be a quite intensive natural color. But many colors turn brown, no matter what nice shade of violet or red they may have in their freshly picked state. :)

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Comment #6 - Posted March 19, 2016, 05:05:33 PM
Gotta say I really like these! they have very natural vibe to them and freckles! nice to see them used and she has lots of them!... also I like her stumpy body build and again, how do you manage to use copics that well!? I simply suck at them! but you can do neat shading and all... just look at the shading on her winter pants... darn! that's awesome!...

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Comment #7 - Posted March 20, 2016, 04:05:00 PM
Yeah, I have to say that I really like freckles, especially body freckles. I tried to show that in the summer there is usually a lot of them, however the winter outfit covers so much up that I don't think it was that obvious.

As for the colors... maybe because I don't use copics? ;) I use promarkers for my marker work, I don't really like the feel of the brush tip in copics. Also, when I color I go from dark to light, rather than light to dark. More color saturation, easier to get it less streaky and if I color the sun hitting them, then the yellow hits everywhere. Kind of like it bathes everything? Then I do an extra shading with either purple or blue marker.

Also, I'm happy that the shading looks good, I tried a new darker purple! :D

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Comment #8 - Posted March 20, 2016, 06:00:52 PM
Promarkers or Copics, in my hands neither of them work and it ends up being a total mess! nice to see that someone can use them! I really have no idea how you can do so fine work with them... but the shading sure looks good! and colors as well! giving nice depth to the art...
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