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The final painting.
The sketch .
Vera and Xei belong to me and themselves. Pony belongs to me and Xei. The outfits are gifts from !
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Ummm. I donno If anybody has told you this yet but... Thats ballet. Sorry. It just bugged me.
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I know it's ballet. The title describes the waltz music , not the ballroom dancing.
There are plenty of ballets to waltzes. My favourite example is Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
-achiru-
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Okay!!!! It just bugged me. Had to let it out. I was pretty sure you knew. Oh, and I LOVE Swan Lake!! Its so sad, though.
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Indeed. I remember I first came upon it in a children's storybook which re-wrote a happy ending to it (they jumped into the lake, but didn't die). 
-achiru-
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I found out about it when I was 3. Barbie is a liar!!!
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Yes, she is a liar.
Princess Tutu did so much more justice to Tchaikovsky's music than Barbie. I'm sorry, I grew up in the 90s before there was this awful use of 3D animation. It looks terribly fake to me and I can't stand watching it.
There is good 3D and bad 3D. That movie was bad. Everyone's limbs were so stiff and their expressions looked false.
-achiru-
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Yep. I donno who Princess Tutu is, though.
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Princess Tutu is the most breathtaking anime series ever.
-achiru-
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thank u so much
it was a great talented wonderful tutorial!!! u are really professional!!
if u pardon me may i ask about skin.
my big problem is always coloring skin.
u are really great at it!
i wished there was a tutorial just about coloring skin, what are colors? first which one? next which one?
may i dare to ask u, if u kindly help me about it?
thank u so much
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Well, if you search around DA, I'm sure you can find plenty of skin coloring tutorials, although most of them tend to be digital, I think. The same idea applies.
I like to use a very diluted (light) orange (with a tint of red, as needed). Here's a palette of skin colors: [link] Most of the time you learn to mix paints in the least number of steps to get the color you want.
For darker areas, use more ink, for lighter areas, use more water: [link] or [link] Often, I mix a light color first, and as I paint (slowly), the water evaporates so I end up with a darker color later as I layer. Or you mix several shades all at once by squeezing the same amount of paint in different bowls, and adding different quantities of water to them (and keeping track of your gradients).
-achiru-
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how could i possibly thank you for your clarify, wonderful complete answer
im so grateful, really really appreciate it!
thanks for the links and all your kind guides, thank u!
i will follow your advises..
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You're very welcome.
-achiru-
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im always waiting to see more of your wonderful arts...
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If your images are wrinkling you should get some painter's tape and a heavier paper. Then before you paint or even line your image, do a water wash over it and tape it to a clean dry surface, pressing all the wrinkles out of the image. It will save you a lot of heart ache. ^_^ Thanks for the tutorial!! X3
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You're welcome, and thanks. This kind of paper wasn't meant for this kind of painting, but I make do with what I have (I'm not in a position to be going out to buy high quality materials). I'm not really knowledgeable with various types of rice paper, but this one is Japanese, I think, and is meant for the spontaneous Zen kind of effect that bounds the flow of water which give rise to the wrinkles if one is using really thin lines. I'd think a water wash would actually make it worse as the paper moves as soon as water contacts it.
-achiru-
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Well rice paper is more for ink instead of water colors. I use to do a lot of printing on masa paper and over rice papers... they get distroyed if you put to much ink or water on them. o.o
Painter's tape is super cheap. ^^ It's like two dollars for a huge roll. And you can probably get the pre-stretched watercolor paper for about ten bucks a pack. It's what I use when I do my watercolors at home. X3
It's just a thought. I personally would never have the patience to do watercolors on thin paper. O.o Kudos.
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Thanks. I do want to take up more traditional media after graduating to get a break from staring at a monitor all the time. For now I just kind of dig up whatever I can find to use, which is paper lying around the house or the small watercolor pads my friends give me, which you can find in common stationary or department stores. The rice paper is left over from when my dad took up Chinese painting in Hong Kong or people gave to him. It's pretty old stuff.
-achiru-
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Hmm.. have you tried stretching stock paper? Or printing paper? It's pretty cheap but a bit more heavy then rice paper. You might not get as much roughness with the watercolors. I would bet that the rice paper deteriorated a bit with painting. o.o I've never done any Chinese painting with rice paper. Just relief and lino printing. ^^ It's really fun but time consuming. And expensive if you don't have a printing studio available.
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...you can put a towel below the paper to suck the unecessary water and avoid wrinkles better
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That would work if I had a said towel. But I don't. I have paper towels. XD;;;
-achiru-
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Very nice. The process makes sense! Do you do preliminary sketches before you do the linework or just go straight into it?
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Um, I think it's pretty self-explanatory. I did one sketch. I reworked that sketch until I liked it. I trace the sketch onto rice paper for the linework.
-achiru-
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beautifuul ^^ thank you for posting the steps, it's fun to see how you create.
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You're welcome!
-achiru-
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Tut tut. What were we saying the other day about taking a rest? I mean really .. You sure know how to make things more difficult.
But I have to say, the art looks as gorgeous and wonderful as always. Love the colours and the lines and poses.
I hope Xei's happy with his ballet picture now.
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XD;;; Yes I do. I blame Xei.
Xei: Hey, blame youself!
Achiru: Eeeeehhh~
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Xei: It's not my faauullt~
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I have always wanted to see a step-by-step of how you do this... and now I have, and it doesn't look any easier. 
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awesome on so many levels - how the flick can you paint like that!!
brilliant job - xei and vera are sooo pretty :3
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Hmm I dunno.... Her knee being up compared to her leg being out like the original.. I think I like the leg being out better. It'd help more with the balance and turn - that and I've done ballet @.@
oO; Odd.. the colors look WAAAAY better when wet XD
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See, the problem with that is that I wanted them to face each other. And I kept going over and over and over it in my head but she just ends up kicking him over XD;;; It would work if her OTHER leg was raised, but I didn't want to redraw the whole thing again (see lack of paper space here), and it's just not possible for her back/spine to bend that way as it is in the first sketch. 
-achiru-
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LOL! I should do a sketch of all the attempts to get it right and Xei falling over. We debated about a harder pose but Xei wasn't strong enough to actually left Vera and he refused to switch their roles (though Xei looks good in purple too, he wanted Vera in purple). Xei you're so silly~
-achiru-
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Love the detail and this is great. ^_^ It's cool seeing how you paint... I'd have given up if the paper wrinkled...
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Thank yuu~
I was going to give in too... (mope and try again months later) but Xei was bothering me. Making me watch the Nutcracker ballet on youtube definitely helped. XD;;;
-achiru-
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You're welcome
haha Xei must love ballet ^_^ hope he doesn't torture you too much
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Yeah I hope that too. He's been quite pushy lately.
-achiru-
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D'aww, that is such an adorable sketch! Great tutorial, too. Pony! XD
You should post the pencil sketch of this, too! I'm a sucker for pencils, I admit. ^__^
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