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Never though I'd actually be posting visual art before any of my writings would go up, but them's the breaks, I guess.
OceanOtter and uglylilmonster drew for me a bit of gift art last Christmas. I very much love it, especially the facial expression: that's perfect. But it's only black and white and red all over (mostly because I lack pretty much any visual description of my "character"), so I took it upon myself to at least add some generic 'coon-ish color. I'm not even so sure I did well with that, but it's good enough for now. Regardless, the most important thing to me was to blend the new, digital coloring with the texture of the original, physical media as best as possible, and if we ignore the irregularities caused by the paper (which I just plain have no idea how to reproduce), I think I at least made the new areas not look completely out of place using my limited skill with The GIMP. Given that this effort was stretched out over 10 months, my techniques must have changed at least a bit every time I worked on it.
I think it looks best at half resolution. This hides imperfections while avoiding what appear to be illusions at even lower resolutions than that—in this thumbnail, it looks like the dark brown on the face is noticeably lighter than the brown on the tail, but I'm fairly sure this is not actually the case.
Don't even get me started on the paws... D:
tl;dr: I DON'T REALLY F*CKIN' LOVE COLORING!!!!!! (MOSTLY)
OceanOtter and uglylilmonster drew for me a bit of gift art last Christmas. I very much love it, especially the facial expression: that's perfect. But it's only black and white and red all over (mostly because I lack pretty much any visual description of my "character"), so I took it upon myself to at least add some generic 'coon-ish color. I'm not even so sure I did well with that, but it's good enough for now. Regardless, the most important thing to me was to blend the new, digital coloring with the texture of the original, physical media as best as possible, and if we ignore the irregularities caused by the paper (which I just plain have no idea how to reproduce), I think I at least made the new areas not look completely out of place using my limited skill with The GIMP. Given that this effort was stretched out over 10 months, my techniques must have changed at least a bit every time I worked on it.
I think it looks best at half resolution. This hides imperfections while avoiding what appear to be illusions at even lower resolutions than that—in this thumbnail, it looks like the dark brown on the face is noticeably lighter than the brown on the tail, but I'm fairly sure this is not actually the case.
Don't even get me started on the paws... D:
tl;dr: I DON'T REALLY F*CKIN' LOVE COLORING!!!!!! (MOSTLY)
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Raccoon
Size 960 x 1280px
File Size 1.16 MB
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