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Wow. That looks really great, man.

Nice work.

Thanks :3

No problem.

I love the background! It looks incredible, and very pretty. I especially like how bright and cheery it is. I hope ya do more stuff like this!

Well, I wanted to learn paints just so I can do backgrounds like this much more easily, so hopefully we'll see plenty of it :P Thanks!

Yay for clean! n.n

The watercolors look awesome overall, but... I dunno, something about it seems to need a few touches. Alas, the only person I know who works with watercolors is  hobbpanda .

*shrug*

Dude... first time. Of course things need touches. First time.

First time. xD And incase you missed it, -first time- xD Go a little easy on me man!

Firstime?

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...my eyes slipped off of that, somehow. I swear, Ru, I thought you had worked with them in the near past!

I blame the 4 hours of sleep I got across teh last 2 days.

Worked with? Hardly... I've -used- them recently, but with zero actual artistic effort in mind. It's similar to how someone who writes with a pencil isn't actually learning to draw. That's all x3

So very very very very very very very very very sorry >.<

i love the color in this - very very well done.

Hehe, thank you :3

Really good, especially for a first attempt. I absolute LOVE the bg...its so warm and bright, exactly what I always imagine fall should be....gods, I love this season. <3

Hehe, nothing like a little bit of yellow to make everything look all warm and glowy 83 Thanks, I'm glad to hear this one actually came out okay x3

Looks great for a first attempt =3 Keep practicing ^^

Will do x3 Thanks!

You are very welcome, my friend =3

oh hunny, that background is beautiful! Very warm and natural looking. <3

I'm wondering, did you try laying down a layer of color over Ru, then using the pencils to shade it? I know some artists do it like that, you should give it a try. You might like the way it comes out, since the watercolor base will help tone down some of the graininess of the pencils.

That's something I've been thinking about trying for a while, but don't want to be trying until I'm a little more comfortable with doing stuff in paint. I'll try that in two or three pictures or so, perhaps. :P

But yus, thanks very much! <^^>

I think if you try something thin/soft/whatever, you can fill in the rest of the color with the pencils. The paint would just give a good base. ^_^

This came out really well, cool.

This is great, watercolor takes a lot of patience, I'm impressed!

Actually, what attracts me to it is that, once a person really knows what they're doing, a really good watercolour painter can make amazing looking background images in very little time at all. That's what I'm hoping to go to x3

Thanks :P

Wow dude this is really good. You're right about the scarf looking not so good with not shading it, but the rest is amazing. The colors are so bright and good. Keep it up.

It's neat how some of the effects that are so amazingly hard in pencil are almost easy to do in paint, isn't it? x3 I'm having fun with it so far. Hopefully i can get goodish at it someday x3

Thanks :P

You actually did VERY well on the background! I like how the parts further away actually fade out! XD

And woo..naked walks in the woods!

Things like that are really quite easy in paint it seems. The only thing about paint that's messing with my head so far is that you actually have to work back to front... starting in the distance and working to the foreground, and when i worked in pencil I actually did the exact opposite for backgrounds. It's forcing me to learn good habits! *gasp* xD

Anyway, thanks a bunch :P

i likea dis, a lot

I spy a Ru! *pounces*
i like it, the psoe is good and the bg as well. infact i really love that bg XD one can kinda see the paper grooves where the scarf and hair is, but ah well. as you said...no shading there. can't say anything past that though as i have even less a clue as to what painting involves than you do.

and i must admit its good to see Ru again :>

Hahah, someone enjoys seeing Ru for some reason x3 I'll try and make the things I screwed up on this time look better next time... but I'm glad it's lookin' okay so far :P

Thanks!

heheh, but is that such a bad thing?

pssh, you're doing fine. you'll get better the more you do just like anything else. you're doing fine ^^

i think you did a wonderful job considering you didnt know what you were doing!

the contrast between the background and Ru(?) is stunning and really helps one focus on him.

very lovely job

He does stand out a fair bit, perhaps it's the different medium. I'm not entirely sure, but I'm trying to decide if I like that or not x3 Time shall tell, but thanks very much! Glad you like it :3

This is lovely, as your works are always!

it looks very nice 8) though i hate autumn <') this is very beautiful piece of work

very nicely done. If I can offer some advice on painting with watercolours? Do the background first. Have your piece sketched and inked the way you like it, then paint the b/g first. To do so, mask off the character by painting the inner portion of it with liquid fricket using a synthetic bristle paintbrush. It'll repel the unwanted watercolour and keep it from seeping onto the sketched/inked portion. (= Once the watercolour is dry, you rub away the fricket with a rubber pick-up so you can paint the clean area

A short tutorial on what I mean:

http://www.watercolorpainting.com/w.....ng/masking.htm

Oops, I meant to say **frisket

I don't have the slightest inkling what a "fricket" might be. ^_^

Also, with the grainy-ness that you were talking about. If you want to eliminate the white showing through in the back, lay down a layer of a similar colour with your watercolour paints first. It won't stop the overlying pencil from coming out grainy because that's based on the paper type, but it will help cut down on the white glaring through the pencil.

If you want a smooth finish to it, I'd recommend some nice cardstock paper. If you get good, thick paper, it won't wrinkle up like a bitch. If you happen to purchase thinner stock, and if you water treat it first it wont wrinkle like regular paper. To water treat the cardstock, find a board you can tape the paper down on. Get some drafting tape or blue painters tape and tape the paper to the board. Not just small pieces in the corners, like around the entire perimeter. After thats done, take a sponge or a wide paintbrush and just paint plain old water onto the paper. Do that lightly and don't overdo it because you don't want to ruin the paper grain and make the texture nubly. Once it's dry, you can remove the tape and it's good to go!

(= Sorry for the crap load of info on watercolour painting. I do it often in my spare time because it's cheap and easy, so if you ever want help on technique or methods or just have a question, I'm all ears.

Ciao Babyluv!

Heheh, that was quite a lot of useful advice there. Some of it I already did, like doing the background first- you pretty much have to with paint. I don't mask the characters yet because I haven't got any of the stuff to do that with yet, but i'll get around to that eventually, for now I just have to be careful. And I'll probably try the rest of the stuff you said next time I play with watercolors. :P It's going to take some messing around and experimenting to get everything to do just what I want, but I think what you've said so far should help quite a bit. If I ever get stuck on something or need some advice I'll be sure to look you up :P

Thanks so much! <^^>

Not a problem Babyluv. If you want, I can pick up some frisket for you at the art store by my school. No joke, it's a massive warehouse and they have bloody everything you could ever want under the sun!

Wait, you know what, no, you don't have a choice, I'm getting some. You vill take it und you vill like it, ja! <3

D'aaawr, come on, you don't haveta do that. Haven't you done more than your fair share for me already? Pretty sure I owe you a ton already, you're makin' me feel bad. xD

allow me to respond with the following:

Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft

I don't mind it, honestly. I'd love to help you out. (=

Purple... crotchfuzz... l3
I want to touch you~ l3~~~~
I... love differently-colored patches of crotchfluff~ l3

That background is crazy-amazing.
I don't even know how to describe it, fantastically detailed~
And it reminds me a lot of this battle background from Final Fantasy VI: http://www.geocities.com/cyberfenri.....nsetforest.gif

*laughs* It does sorta look like that background doesn't it? Except theirs looks better xD Glad you thought it looks okay though :3

And it's all good. You can touch my purple fuzz any time you like >:3

xD Thanks :3

Lovely =) Looks really good. And i love you´re background!

I love the colours and the shading and the pose and just all of it

Hehe, thank you!

Wonderful Colors ... love it =3

Dude so sweet you are going to be amazing with water color. I think that the watercolor pincils are much more simple to work with you should give them a shot it wouldn't be a waste at all. By the way how do you like the brushes are they too stiff?

Well I hope to get decent at them someday :P I'm glad you like it so far :3 I was thinking of trying your picture in watercolour as well, if you're okay with that? If not I won't, but I thought it would be neat since you did give me the stuff to learn it after all x3 And the brushes were fine, they worked great. Once they get soaked with water they soften up quite a bit, so it should do greatly :P I'm gonna have a lot of tun with them all. And I'm going to try the pencils probably on my next watercolour attempt, I think they'll be great for doing watercolours in smaller detailed areas. :3

i would love it if you used watercolor for mine. i was hoping you would actually especially for the background. i am really amped to see what you do.

actually maybe you could use water color for the background and your regular stuff for the characters i think that would look great.

I was thinking something like that anyway, yeah. Maybe just an underlair of paint to smooth out the colour and all the shading in detail in pencil or something. We'll see, but I'ma try real hard to make it look good either way :P

it will look fantastic I'm sure, i can't wait to see it. when ever you have the time could we still do the trade we talked about a while ago?

Yus, gladly, but it's gonna be quite a while ^^; I've got a ton of commissions to do, potentially including one that could have as many as 100 people in it. No lie. But I've got commissions closed now so the list will slowly die down, and once they're done they'll stay closed for a while, so keep poking me every now and then about it and once I have some free time for them I'll snatch you up for it right away x3

sounds great man thanks for everything :3


holy shit 100 furs you better be getting paid an ass load of money for that XD your group pics are always fun so that should be really cool ^______^

o.o Oh wow, that's a beautiful background! I'd say you've captured the Autumn sunset spectacularly. :3

Just so you know, that background is frickin' awesome.