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Blacksnake, Farscout and wolves
by Eregyrn
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A look at a partial work; this will be part of a multi-artist piece, and these figures will be small and in the background in it. That's why they're lower on detail than I usually do, since they have to be reduced. (Full piece: http://www.rivertwine.com/artpageview.php?id=909)
Wolves reffed from Monty Sloan's site. The grey one, Wasp, is the pack's alpha, and is Blacksnake's wolf-friend. The black one is Flea, very young and omega, and she's Farscout's wolf-friend. (Man, I don't care how cool-looking black wolves are -- they are a pain in the ass to draw/color!
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Brush-pen inks, Copic marker colors.
Posted September 11, 2009, 10:26:26 PM
October 12, 2009, 09:38:28 PM
river twine, wolf, wolves, Blacksnake, Farscout
Wolves reffed from Monty Sloan's site. The grey one, Wasp, is the pack's alpha, and is Blacksnake's wolf-friend. The black one is Flea, very young and omega, and she's Farscout's wolf-friend. (Man, I don't care how cool-looking black wolves are -- they are a pain in the ass to draw/color!
)Brush-pen inks, Copic marker colors.
Posted September 11, 2009, 10:26:26 PM
October 12, 2009, 09:38:28 PM
river twine, wolf, wolves, Blacksnake, Farscout
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silentleaf
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Comment #1 - Posted September 12, 2009, 06:38:17 PM
I love your line art and movment.
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Afke
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Comment #2 - Posted September 15, 2009, 01:19:19 AM
I think you did very well on the black wolf! Everyone does black differently and this fits your style. I usually use the very dark warm grays for black parts when it's done in copics.
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Eregyrn
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Comment #3 - Posted September 15, 2009, 11:31:12 AM
Thanks, Afke! I have this problem, though, that the type of paper I use is reflective to the light of the scanner, and it bounces light back through the transparent ink of the Copics. So it washes out any dark areas, basically, and editing in PS later isn't always a way to save them. It's really frustrating to me. Sometimes it's good, and creates more subtle shading on skintones, for example. But it frustrates me that I can't get any really DARK darks. I've learned that the only way to get black is to ink it, and then print it. Printed lines are opaque to the scanner later.
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Eregyrn
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Comment #4 - Posted September 15, 2009, 11:31:39 AM
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There's a pic in my gallery here, of Willow on her wolf Grizzle. In the original, Grizzle was supposed to be very dark, largely black. He didn't come out that way in the scan. And Wasp, here, is based on a wolf who was black (before he started fading to grey with age), but I eventually just gave up on trying to make him that dark. Anyway... Ordinarily I would have done the highlight bits in grey, but when I was doing this particular black wolf, the refs I was looking at on Monty's site showed that some of the "black" wolves are actually really, really dark brown, with some lighter reddish brown. So I went with that. |
Afke
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Comment #5 - Posted September 16, 2009, 02:57:43 AM
Wow, that's annoying.
 What kind of paper do you use? I just pick ordinairy printer paper, I know it isn't bleedproof or something, but that works for me and the way I work with the copics. I have some bleedproof marker papers, but I miss the structure the printer paper gives me, so I don't use those much.
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