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Thanks for being so much fun to watch, Simone Biles!

Thanks for being so much fun to watch, Simone Biles!


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Orange-crowned Warbler sketch while waiting on my computer to analyze some data.

Wishing everyone a reason to dance this year~

Wishing everyone a reason to dance this year~


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9 tiny landscapes

A few little oak tree studies.

A few little oak tree studies.


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Finished scrawlrbox challenge for may 2021! pretty happy with it. This was a fun box. Small review o

Finished scrawlrbox challenge for may 2021! pretty happy with it. This was a fun box. Small review of posca pencils under the cut:

The posca pencils came in 6 colours of a similar tone: Blue, purple, Red, Teal, Beige and grey. Not the best mix of colours for getting a big range but enough to get a feel for the pencils.

The pencils have a wax core which I was originally worried about but it seems to be pretty stable - there were no broken leads despite me constantly dropping them and them being delivered by post. Like most wax pencils they did Not maintain a point for long but I found the point wore down faster than any other pencil I’ve ever worked with. So keep in mind you’d go through these pretty fast if you use them a lot.

Colour went down thick and creamy - I personally prefer oil pencils but if this is something you look for these do achieve that well. There was no note on how light fast they are but they blended fairly nicely with solvent without loss of pigment. However they are ridiculously expensive at £20 for a pack of 12 and £2.50 individually. While nice if you can get them cheaper - definitely not worth more than polychromos or a price so close to Caran d’Ache lumianance. Performed better than prismacolor but thats not hard given the pencil lead didn’t break every two minutes. 


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Waltz

Inspired by the Finnish nature film Tunturin tarina(Tale of the Sleeping Giants). It was magical, definitely watch it if you can ✨

Midsummer Adventure

[Image description: a long comic drawn with colored pencils, each panel occupies the full width of t

[Image description: a long comic drawn with colored pencils, each panel occupies the full width of the image. A close up of a pot of soup on a gas range, the colors are under-saturated. A person with ginger hair and pale, ruddy skin lifts a spoon of soup to their mouth. A woman rolls out dough with a pot of soup boiling in the background. She smiles at the viewer with a hand outstretched towards us. Another woman, much older with white hair, looks away from the viewer as she serves a bowl of soup. The person who had been tasting the soup cries, the colors in their face and hair much more vibrantly orange and red and yellow. Text at the very bottom reads: Give it time to digest. /end image description]

Sometimes happy memories bring out grief. I’m learning to nurture myself.


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lestat-de-lionfish:

lestat-de-lionfish:

So. I thought I’d do a little semi-art tutorial. It’s more just walking through my colouring process. I work light to dark to help avoid smudging, so I usually start with the skin.

Base coat

Base shading

Blend

Deepen shadows

Blend

Detail

Depending on the character, I like to add some colour to the cheeks

Blend

And then I just fine tune the last of the details.

I may or may not reblog this with other parts of my colouring process.

Eyes!

You need really sharp pencils for this bit.

As we established earlier, I work light to dark. So I start by shading the whites of the eyes

Then I blend out the shadows and add the highlights

Then I start with the highlights in the irises

Then the main colour around the highlight

Then the shadow cast by the eyelashes

Last step is to fill in the pupils!


I usually use a few more steps than this, but brown eyes are pretty simple on this small of a scale.

Okay. Hair. Skoden. Stoodis.

Plan the highlights and the general flow of the hair.

Actually colour the highlights. Fancy that.

Very important step. Get interrupted by your cat named Chainsaw as he headbutts your sketchbook out of your hands and sticks his face in your drink immediately after you take this photo. Do not skip this part.

Colour the main body of the hair. I like to blend this part into the highlights as I go.

Add in the shadows. Again, I like to blend as I go so I don’t miss any spots. ADHD who?

Colourless blender, my beloved—

lestat-de-lionfish:

So. I thought I’d do a little semi-art tutorial. It’s more just walking through my colouring process. I work light to dark to help avoid smudging, so I usually start with the skin.

Base coat

Base shading

Blend

Deepen shadows

Blend

Detail

Depending on the character, I like to add some colour to the cheeks

Blend

And then I just fine tune the last of the details.

I may or may not reblog this with other parts of my colouring process.

Eyes!

You need really sharp pencils for this bit.

As we established earlier, I work light to dark. So I start by shading the whites of the eyes

Then I blend out the shadows and add the highlights

Then I start with the highlights in the irises

Then the main colour around the highlight

Then the shadow cast by the eyelashes

Last step is to fill in the pupils!


I usually use a few more steps than this, but brown eyes are pretty simple on this small of a scale.

So. I thought I’d do a little semi-art tutorial. It’s more just walking through my colouring process. I work light to dark to help avoid smudging, so I usually start with the skin.

Base coat

Base shading

Blend

Deepen shadows

Blend

Detail

Depending on the character, I like to add some colour to the cheeks

Blend

And then I just fine tune the last of the details.

I may or may not reblog this with other parts of my colouring process.

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