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A recent commission that I'm rather proud of. After a talk with 
NicNak044 about a recent ref that basically codified her head shape for me - I'm partial to that gangly, Gerald Scarfeian frontal view she has, a very interesting contrast to the usual thick swarthy lynx I end up drawing on here! Thank you so much for giving me the excuse to paint it!
And I broke your facial planes a bit so that your un-symmetrical face would match up to the diagonal sweep of the composition - you understand this made you look so much better than my first mirror-symmetrical draft. My one regret is how your eyebrow disappears into your hair here Sorry!
A tribute to the temperature stress of that unique period in June when the scrags of your winter fur finally come out, and the heat and the cold buffet you at once. The cure is a full moon, iced tea, and a nice thick wool blanket. Just a mental image of you that popped into my head, from your prompt about "middle of nature" and "neutral colors."
After a couple of sketches, I codified it rather well in my mind - a broadly neutralized color palette of indigo, ochre, carmine, silver and a dull sea cyan green whose marker I don't remember, all neutralized on a tan paper and charged with chinese white. The composition owes a severe debt to all that Eugenio Carmi art I've been looking at! Gerald Scarfe character, Art Noveau blanket, Eugenio Carmi composition... eclecticity is fun <3
I'm very proud that the moon circle was drawn freehand X3 I love working on toned paper, and toning stuff under watercolors - the bottom carmine swath is entirely copic, the blanket is copic with watercolor highlights, the socks are random alcohol markers I found around the house, the moon is watercolor over a copic undersketch, and the sky and lynx herself are entirely watercolor.
$20 worth, a medium watercolor sketch. Still working on my prices, I'll get a list up sometime soon! Pleasure working with her and I'd love to do it again <3
NicNak044 about a recent ref that basically codified her head shape for me - I'm partial to that gangly, Gerald Scarfeian frontal view she has, a very interesting contrast to the usual thick swarthy lynx I end up drawing on here! Thank you so much for giving me the excuse to paint it!And I broke your facial planes a bit so that your un-symmetrical face would match up to the diagonal sweep of the composition - you understand this made you look so much better than my first mirror-symmetrical draft. My one regret is how your eyebrow disappears into your hair here Sorry!
A tribute to the temperature stress of that unique period in June when the scrags of your winter fur finally come out, and the heat and the cold buffet you at once. The cure is a full moon, iced tea, and a nice thick wool blanket. Just a mental image of you that popped into my head, from your prompt about "middle of nature" and "neutral colors."
After a couple of sketches, I codified it rather well in my mind - a broadly neutralized color palette of indigo, ochre, carmine, silver and a dull sea cyan green whose marker I don't remember, all neutralized on a tan paper and charged with chinese white. The composition owes a severe debt to all that Eugenio Carmi art I've been looking at! Gerald Scarfe character, Art Noveau blanket, Eugenio Carmi composition... eclecticity is fun <3
I'm very proud that the moon circle was drawn freehand X3 I love working on toned paper, and toning stuff under watercolors - the bottom carmine swath is entirely copic, the blanket is copic with watercolor highlights, the socks are random alcohol markers I found around the house, the moon is watercolor over a copic undersketch, and the sky and lynx herself are entirely watercolor.
$20 worth, a medium watercolor sketch. Still working on my prices, I'll get a list up sometime soon! Pleasure working with her and I'd love to do it again <3
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
Species Lynx
Size 1184 x 1280px
File Size 382.2 kB
Oh wow, Liam, this is gorgeous <3 I absolutely love the variety of media you used here, and her face is absolutely adorable, haha!
Thank you so much <3 Hope you don't mind I upload this onto nicolethelynx, do you? c:
Thank you so much <3 Hope you don't mind I upload this onto nicolethelynx, do you? c:
No no no! Not at all, as long as you credit the source Spread the word!
Your face is adorable, so it wasn't that hard to carry over. Of course, I love the watercolor impasto gloss, it gives you this mother-of-pearl look <3 Your new glossy summer coat!
That's one reason digital bums me out is that when you use a variety of brushes, they still sorta reflect each other the same. Wheras in watercolor alone, there's such a variety of ways pigment can stain or obscure or tint the paper beneath it; and it's so hard to glaze colors in digital, since the computer screen makes the pixel all one color. Wheras even scanned, the pigment that floats gives a much better illusion of multiple colors at once. There's five layers of color at least on basically everything in that image, I couldn't bear to do it in digital. So if I'm going to raise myself up to you genius digital artists, I have to exploit all those, use every trick in the book! You gave me the best vote of confidence So thank you so much!
Your face is adorable, so it wasn't that hard to carry over. Of course, I love the watercolor impasto gloss, it gives you this mother-of-pearl look <3 Your new glossy summer coat!
That's one reason digital bums me out is that when you use a variety of brushes, they still sorta reflect each other the same. Wheras in watercolor alone, there's such a variety of ways pigment can stain or obscure or tint the paper beneath it; and it's so hard to glaze colors in digital, since the computer screen makes the pixel all one color. Wheras even scanned, the pigment that floats gives a much better illusion of multiple colors at once. There's five layers of color at least on basically everything in that image, I couldn't bear to do it in digital. So if I'm going to raise myself up to you genius digital artists, I have to exploit all those, use every trick in the book! You gave me the best vote of confidence So thank you so much!
Eyes wide can be warm, when they're not terrified. The difference is in which muscle pulls. ("Creepy" is when the eyes are wide and the eyebrows are down, "Terrified" is when the muscles are pulling on all parts of the eye and brow, especially the sides, to bring everything into our field of vision (which is what I usually draw). This is only the muscles in the middle of the brow pulling up, which makes a nice happy soft look that I don't get to use that often. And she's just cartoony enough for it to work!)
My singing voice is pretty velvet-Sinatra smooth, so I sympathize... I could play Giotto with a little more ultramarine, I'll bet X3
My singing voice is pretty velvet-Sinatra smooth, so I sympathize... I could play Giotto with a little more ultramarine, I'll bet X3
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