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Asterpillar — the Dawn
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Published: 2016-11-12 11:45:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 567; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 4
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why draw many details when you can only draw many shades of colors?
though I have the feeling it lacks something! like dunno, a mist, a breeze or anything else! if you have any idea, share it!
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Mmm I get what you mean! 
You're right, maybe a neutral colour like white could have mix them with more harmony! Thank you!
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thank you very much!
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This is amazing!! I really love the colors and how well they blend together, especially with the backgrounds! May I ask what kind of colored pencils did you use?
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thank you very much!!
it's a mix of medias actually! watercolors and watercolor pencils, but dry!
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Elle est maaagnifique ! J'en connait une qui c'est bien amusée avec la peinture dorée, les détails sur la harpe son splendides !
Le drapée est fantastiques et les couleurs son superbe, j'aime beaucoup comme tout pars en dégradé !
Amazing
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merccciiiiii beaucoup! (ça fait plaisir de te revoir par ici! même si c'est un p'tit passage rapide! 
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Dude the details here are unbelievable 
The clouds kind of look too solid, but the colours are awesome. I think for next time you should soften their outlines a bit more.
As for it lacking something, I think it needs something more to ground the girl into the background. Maybe stronger lighting? Judging by the colours of the clouds, there should be golden and purple sunlight on to the character as well. Skin actually reflects faint hues of the colours around it.
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Thank you sooo much! 
ah I will answer in a raw, because the fact it doesn't look like watercolors is linked to the fact it looks more solid as you say!
you're right, the basis is watercolors, but I used coloured pencils to soften the thing! (or at least I tried!
I don't know what's wrong with my watercolors lately but the result is plain ugly! 
ha I will confess my biggest shame and incompetence! to play with the light/background on the character, I tried it many time! make it look yellowish at night, bluer in the sea, but it failed! you must know you can't suppress something on traditionnal when the damage is done!
I'm trying to practice, but seeing the huge amount of drawings failed because of that, it's decouraging!
(well thank you for the tip anyway!
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You're very welcome!
I see! Maybe you've changed technique without even noticing it.
Have you tried using references? If you put a photo on GIMP and use the colour pickers, you'll be able to see what colours are actually on a person. Sometimes you won't expect it, but in certain backgrounds the skin is actually green, although it doesn't look green in the picture because the background is greener - if you know what I mean?
You should practice with sketches, that way you can experiment more without feeling like you ruined a picture! Or maybe even draw an outline and photocopy it, and experiment with colours there? xD
(Of course! 
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surely, it changes everytime!
yes I see what you mean, it's often surprising! maybe I should give up with watercolors too, because I like to put looooot of different shades for the contrast, but the paper is giving up too quickly! xD how do professionnals do?
I tried both: sketches and official, but yes, training is the key to success! 
nuuu no printer! anyway with watercolors you need thick paper, not sure it can go in! XD that's it, watercolors are a pain!
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I think professionals must know the colour they need to do and they use that colour in the first place, rather than adding shades on like the rest of us peasants.
Training and observance
Hm, then get a piece of glass and trace several versions before you experiment! I have a glass dinner table and when I need to trace I just stick a lamp underneath.
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damn you've digged out very old threads!
let's say they mostly specialize in this and that! they can't do everything either! in denial, again
oooh clever! I saw once an artist using her lamp to work on a light! that might do!
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I dunno, some people seem to be able to do everything. xD
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well it's funny to discover them again!
they are not humans! I tell ya!
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hein, comment ça se fait? ce dessin est réapparu dans tes notifications?
je faisais des petits tests de taille, j'ai pourtant pas cocher la case qui notifie les watchers!
en merci encore une fois!
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Mais du coup, oui c'est un très joli dessin, encore une fois
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et bien, merci encore alors!
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Encore une fois, j'adoreeeeeeeeee !!!
Je suis absolument fan des couleurs que tu choisis *0*
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merci beaucoup!!!!
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Je comprend pour moi c'est pareil :s
En digi tu peux utilisé des palettes de couleurs toute faite
mais en tradi c'est plus compliqué :s
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décidément, le digital me laisse rêveuse!
je crois que pour cette année je risque de m'offrir un beau cadeau de noël...
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mais! mais! je fais partie de la team tradi!!
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Il faut savoir se mouiller parfois
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Seeee!!!! Everytime you post something is even more amazing!<3
You did an amazing work with colors *^* She is so beautiful!!! Gosh so pretty!
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for the queen of colourful drawings, that's quite something to hear!! 
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Speaking of vibrant colors That is super amazing and beautiful...just wow.
The colors from the sky in the dress...and I can see the "wings" too.
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I have lot of drawings where the final result isn't what I had in mind first!
thank you very much!!
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Wow 
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thank you very much!
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Awww indeed I adore the colors! It really gives a nostalgic feeling but not sad!
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nostalgic?
thank you very much!
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YEs ^_^ And btw it is dawn now that I am typing this hehe
You are very welcome!
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she is so beautiful, I love how the light of the rising Sun resembles wings for her
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it does?
mmm you've got a point! how could it be called the dawn if it looks like the sun is rising? what a terrible mistake!
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Well the dawn goes all the way until the Sun is fully out
so yes, she is the dawn!
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