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Published: 2011-03-11 17:40:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 2868; Favourites: 93; Downloads: 77
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Violet Verbena WintermereNot sure who she is, but I'm pretty sure she could never be bothered to speak to a man in her 50-odd years, and certainly hasn't regretted it...
So I've been working on my painting process. It's always been something that bothers me, because I never felt that i learned to paint properly in the first place. I always jumped too quickly into the details, and realized later that there were issues i should have addressed at the beginning...
So.
This was just something I did during my lunches, but I'm happy with some of the skills I've been developing. It might seem very simple, but this opens up a whole lot of opportunity for some cool works in the future
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For some reason she reminds me of Lady Tremaine, the stepmother in Disney's Cinderella...
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lol i think it's the puffy sleeves and the hairdo-- I've gotten that comment before
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She seems like such a prune... And as Asynndor says, loads of lemon juice in her tea. It feeds her sour moods in the mornings...
I love the style that you decided to use for her. It seems fitting.
You're always improving :] Such lovely art all the time <3
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Reminds me of Mrs. Mcvane: [link] from All I Wanna Do! I love her! She is one of those women that all the girls and women who meet her love her and the men are always a little afraid of her!
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you are most welcome...
I'm a BIG fan by the way
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Looks great
I will look forward to see more colorwork from you
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thank you-- I'll definitely be doing some more
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Oh wow, I love the way you've done her, from so much of it you have just created a complete character, especially, of course from her face, her nose is brilliant, despite the way you know noone could have a nose like that in real life, it fits her nicely. And I know i've said this before, but i love your colour schemes, are you tying to work with complementary colours, yellow and purple and the orange and blue? It's really interesting, I don't think i've seen many people use it
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Yeah I've been going with complementary harmonies for the most part. So, using complementaries, but also blending complementaries together to use the interesting tones they create... A lot of people do complementary contrast (so, making blue pop by putting it in a sea of orange, for example) but i like this quieter result... once i get a handle on this I'll most likely try something different, and hopefully be able to choose the right color scheme for the right image-- I'm still surprising myself with results at this point, LOL.
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It's really clever, I like the result more using the subtle tones rather than the really in your face ones.
It'd be a good technique to have mastered, it really makes your works interesting, rather than just sticking to the more well-used colour schemes, it makes your work very recognisable.
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hurrah! That's great news, really, since I've always found that my stuff has no strong recognizable style. It's funny too because one of the artists that i go to for feedback kept trying to get me to use comp. contrast... then when he realized that I kept slipping into this he kind of went "oh--maybe this is your thing then. run with it." lol.
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really? I don't think that at all, I can usually tell one of your humans especially, they all look different, but i think it's something to do with the nose... unless I'm just rambling XD
Nah, I think you should stick with it, if it is your thing, it's a really cool one to have
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Marvellous work. It all fits. The hair, clothes, the hot tea ( I bet she drinks earl grey with loads of lemon juice) right to the way she holds her cup.
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thanks 
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Yeah, you're right. Never been kissed, never done anything rebellious or improper, and thinks that's a damn good thing until the night when *something* loomed over her bed in the darkness, stroked her cheek with claws, and whispered, "Would you like to be young again, Violet?" in a voice more like a growl.
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Consider my enjoyment of this picture to be considerably enhanced.
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That's so very sweet! I admire Snake's art and she admires my writing and we're developing a relationship of casual but passionate mutual inspiration. It's unusual of someone else to express their enjoyment of our exchanges, and I'm flattered.
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ooh. I'm not even going to bother writing descriptions anymore-- yours are always so much better
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