Sketchbook Cover - Final
Just finished coloring my sketchbook cover. It looks far better in person, as the pencil colors are much more subtle and the metal parts shine from the metalic gel pen I used. Oh well, tis is the way with digital scans. I definatly want to do more real pieces on colored paper.
microns, brushed ink, marker, colored pencil, and gel pens
microns, brushed ink, marker, colored pencil, and gel pens
Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
Species Lizard
Size 550 x 749px
File Size 196.5 kB
My goodness that cover is awesome. I love your color choices! It must be great to make such awesome art in a sketch book. And have a kick ass cover to go with it. Id kill to be able to do that. Just to be ABLE to do that. God my life blows. But I digress. Keep up the fantastic work.
Wow, Lizzy, this came out fantastic!!! I'm totally stunned at how good the pencils came out on that brown paper (toned paper can be iffy on results). I'm also happy that this is a personal sketchbook that you did for yourself, and that it's not a piece that will be sold away at cons. It's nice to keep good things for YOU, too ;)
this book was actually the hard-bound kind, made like a normal hardcover book. The cover was brown paper when I bought it.
In the past, I've done collages or used acrylics when the only books available for me to buy had solid black covers.
You can always try creating a cover design on a piece of paper that's a bit smaller than your cover, glue it to the cover, and then laminate over it (crystal clear packing tape actually works VERY good for this)
In the past, I've done collages or used acrylics when the only books available for me to buy had solid black covers.
You can always try creating a cover design on a piece of paper that's a bit smaller than your cover, glue it to the cover, and then laminate over it (crystal clear packing tape actually works VERY good for this)
so much of your art is beautiful, but there is a question i want to ask, is this character a animalized reflection of your true body or an animalized form of the way you dream of looking, i dont mean to pry but its a just a quetion that pops up in my mind because any drawings of my fursona (sorry i dont have any here) are of the way I look, but some other's fursonas are of the body structure (i mean of course not counting the fact that the body has the looks of an animal, I'm just talking of the bare physical form and shape of the body) that they wish they had, not of what they currently have. if this question makes you uncomfortable then by all means dont answer, i just wanted to know and your the first person i asked.
I don't really have any deep "connection" with my character so to speak. I see her as an anthropomorphized pen name or mascot for my work, and not necessarily any kind of representation of "my inner self". That's just me though, I'm not as deeply into the furry thing. I'm much more casual, and see a fursona as very loosely connected (like Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse).
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