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I feel my titles are boring. I have now pimped this title. So anyway, first piece colored with my new tablet. Second try, since Photoshop crashed last time. Mother fucking science and technology. Anyway, couldn't figure what to do with the background, and Snake suggested just leaving it white... which is against my instincts, but I suppose it's ok. Oh well.
I can also now use this to show people color references (my last few badge commissions were a bit confusing to artists, since I'd never colored a piece of her). Now that I see I can do it well enough, I will start coloring commissions that need colored.
I can also now use this to show people color references (my last few badge commissions were a bit confusing to artists, since I'd never colored a piece of her). Now that I see I can do it well enough, I will start coloring commissions that need colored.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Reptilian (Other)
Size 611 x 800px
File Size 368.1 kB
Oh, wow! I've never seen her in color before, so there was a bit of cognitive dissonance for a second there. I always pictured her to be some sort of brown or tan....
But hey, this turned out awesome, and now I know. I guess I already gushed enough about the pose and angle and everything in the black and white version and the only thing that changed here is the color, but I can say I like the color too. :D Even if it did weird me out for a bit.
But hey, this turned out awesome, and now I know. I guess I already gushed enough about the pose and angle and everything in the black and white version and the only thing that changed here is the color, but I can say I like the color too. :D Even if it did weird me out for a bit.
Brown? Well, her description on the MUCK is mottled green. Her design is based on a prehensile-tailed skink (mottled green) and a gater (mottled green). I did decide to go with the lighter underbelly, though, after I got a badge from JAVA where she did it.
Now that you say it, I'm trying to imagine her being brown, and I just can't manage it....
Now that you say it, I'm trying to imagine her being brown, and I just can't manage it....
I think three things threw me off:
Sometimes when I'm unfamiliar with the definition of a word, my subconscious will make up a guess, and if it sounds convincing enough in context, I'll just go along with it without even realizing what I just did. I'm guessing I somehow tricked myself into thinking that "mottled" meant "brownish."
Also, when you said skink, I envisioned a blue-tongued skink, which is brown.
Also, gators seem to span the color range of just about every shade of green to brown to tan, depending on which particular picture Google feels like bringing up. This one's pretty brown: http://www.whozoo.org/Intro98/mindf.....wz20201b17.jpg And this one -- http://www.tropicarium.se/images/Fl....._Alligator.jpg -- is sort of...mud. Closer to green than anything else, but kind of a dark and muddy green, or at the very least, not bright pine green. And http://www3.allaroundphilly.com/blo.....ing-747119.jpg This one's white. O_O
Sometimes when I'm unfamiliar with the definition of a word, my subconscious will make up a guess, and if it sounds convincing enough in context, I'll just go along with it without even realizing what I just did. I'm guessing I somehow tricked myself into thinking that "mottled" meant "brownish."
Also, when you said skink, I envisioned a blue-tongued skink, which is brown.
Also, gators seem to span the color range of just about every shade of green to brown to tan, depending on which particular picture Google feels like bringing up. This one's pretty brown: http://www.whozoo.org/Intro98/mindf.....wz20201b17.jpg And this one -- http://www.tropicarium.se/images/Fl....._Alligator.jpg -- is sort of...mud. Closer to green than anything else, but kind of a dark and muddy green, or at the very least, not bright pine green. And http://www3.allaroundphilly.com/blo.....ing-747119.jpg This one's white. O_O
Mottled is kind of a mixed or varied color. Green falls close to brown, typically, being that it's hard to avoid using green to mix brown, so many green things sort of fade into brownish colors. If you look up a picture of a prehensile-tailed/monkey-tailed/Solomon Island skink, you'll see a perfect example of mottled green: parts will look a little brown, others a little grey, others black, but mostly it'll be dark greens.
I also like bright colors, though, so really she's much brighter than my descriptions would lead one to believe. Typical for me: I describe something in a realistic way, but then I can't resist making it all bright and shiny. I'm like an anti-goth or something.
I also like bright colors, though, so really she's much brighter than my descriptions would lead one to believe. Typical for me: I describe something in a realistic way, but then I can't resist making it all bright and shiny. I'm like an anti-goth or something.
Well, I'm certainly not complaining! I wasn't expecting this, but that doesn't mean I don't like it. Plus, the vibrancy of the color job really brings out the high-movement action pose and the unrestrained murder eyes. ^_^ This is one of those characters where I feel bad saying she's hot because she'd probably kill me, but unfortunately it's true. :P
Well, that is sort of the core of the character. Her appeal is all around one of those things I love in female characters: the completely amoral, soulless, consciousless killer. If you like that, you should look up Black Lagoon. Revy is pretty much the most amazing woman to ever live. She's so similar to Lafitte it's actually a little freaky.
... serial murderer Moe?
... serial murderer Moe?
Wow, and my favorite personality trait for characters is a bad guy with that Ahab-like obsession with someone at the cost of absolutely everything else that ends up making them completely deranged by the end of the story. (Kahran Ramsus is pretty much one of the coolest characters in any RPG ever.) Good to have favorites, anyway. ^_^
No, I'm quite used to photoshop... it's the tablet I'm new to. Every color piece in my gallery was done in photoshop.
I'm going to have to disagree about the wrinkles, though. That shoulder, for instance, is lowered, ergo the shoulder pads under the cloth lay flat. Those coats were made of heavy fabric on the whole, too, so they don't wrinkle to terribly easily.
I'm going to have to disagree about the wrinkles, though. That shoulder, for instance, is lowered, ergo the shoulder pads under the cloth lay flat. Those coats were made of heavy fabric on the whole, too, so they don't wrinkle to terribly easily.
Oh, don't worry about it. Most people don't really know how those coats work, or really what they even look like. Most of the artwork I've seen of pirates, even professional stuff, has been riddled with mistakes coming from an unfamiliarity with the actual article that pictures can't show you. I just also have a tendency to go into teaching mode a lot. ^_^
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