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Published: 2006-01-05 03:04:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 2837; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 35
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Description There are times like this when I really wish I had photoshop, or at least knew how to use something other than colored pencils. Then maybe the rain effect wouldn't look so lame

Anyways, another illustration for my fic (if I ever get this far with it). its Shego, caught in the rain, sitting in front of a large crater. I'll give you two guesses as to where it is... go on, guess. and yes, her skin is *supposed* to be greener than normal (but I will not tell you why XP). I kinda had trouble finding the right color for it here's a very short preview of the scene, just a teaser. I had to take out some spoilers, so it's a little vague. Sorry 'bout that.

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Shego stopped at the rim of the crater and panted for breath. Fatigue, whether it was physical or emotional she didn't know, slowly overcame her and she dropped to her knees in the soggy grass. The rain that soaked her hair and clothes was icy, but nothing could compare to the cold she now felt internally. She wrapped her arms around herself, more for comfort than to keep out the cold. And all the while familiar voices crept into her head, whispering, hissing, remindering her of all those moments she had tried so hard to forget. She clamped her eyes shut and gritted her teeth, concentrating on making them disappear like they had done before. But this time the voices were persistent. They only grew louder.

"These powers are a great responsibility..."

"Wha... what's happend to me? I'm... blue!"

"Keep filing your nails and your hands are weapons, don't file them and you might as well be lighting birthday candles for preschool children."

"Sometimes I wish you'd take life a little more seriously..."

"You think you're all that, but you're not!"

"It's time I finished what I started..."

"But you didn't. You had plenty of opportunities and you let them pass. Why? Why didn't you just get rid of me when you had the chance?"

"You know nothing of pain!"

"I'll be alright, I promise..."

"I told you, I warned you, didn't I? That you were playing with fire. All the other powers are for defense, they enhance the ability of their possessor to give them the advantage. But the green... the green is different..."
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Does anybody else find it strange that all the other powers are easily explained except Shego's? Blue is superstrength, Purple is shrinking, Red is basically cloning (heh), Green is... what? lasers? she's blasted people with it and the worse that happens is they get a little stunned. Now, this is just my mind working in mysterious ways again, but what if she wasn't using them correctly? and not out of ignorance, she clearly knows how to control all the other powers as well as her own. But what if her powers were so horrible, even Shego's hesistant to use them to their fullest extent... What if she was afraid of her own powers? That's kinda the idea that started the whole fic. Most of the story will probably be overruled later on with the fourth season (at least I hope, I want to see how they'd address this) but for now, I'll just busy myself with turning my ideas into something readable.
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Comments: 36

renhoekfan [2014-10-31 01:18:12 +0000 UTC]

so beutiful        

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kimpossible753 [2008-07-05 08:25:01 +0000 UTC]

WoW it's really cool! I lke it so much!

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Miss-Whoa-Back-Off [2008-04-02 03:03:54 +0000 UTC]

Excellent work on both the writing and the illustration! It keeps me at the edge of my seat!

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LilSlugger24 [2006-08-25 01:53:10 +0000 UTC]

This picture is absolutely awesome. I can't even color like that with Photoshop, and I take a class to learn how to use it. Wickedly done.

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Dark-Singer In reply to LilSlugger24 [2006-08-26 04:41:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanx, and I'm sure photoshop is trickier than moving a colored pencil back and forth across a peice of paper xD not that that's easy, by any means, but I digress...
thanx for the comment and fav!

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LilSlugger24 In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-08-27 04:09:12 +0000 UTC]

Surprisingly, Photoshop is easier. I gotta tell you, all I do is select and click. Then again, I don't have one of the advanced versions. Regardless, you can do more with a colored pencil than I could.

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Da--Master [2006-08-22 13:34:42 +0000 UTC]

Alas, having nigh but colored pencils to work with is often quite tedious; but it end result can feel quite rewarding, as it is here. I think you did rather well, to be honest. And to get the rain effect, I've found what works rather well is to use an eraser to make thin slivers of rain droplets after you've completed coloring your pic. (just a little bit of helping information for ya.)

And as for the story behind this, you have me quite intreaged; I would very much like to read this fic of yours. Do you have it up somewhere else, or are you still working on it?

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Dark-Singer In reply to Da--Master [2006-08-23 05:44:58 +0000 UTC]

thanx for the comment! and yeah, I know what you mean. that idea isn't half bad tho. I'll have to try it sometime. tho in my experience erasing colored pencil doesn't always work out

and I'm glad I caught you're intrest xD I have the first few chapters up on ff.net ---> [link]
I am working on the next one, tho I confess I haven't really been getting anywhere too many ideas floating around in a convoluted mass inside my head I don't even know where to start. bleh! frustrating.

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Da--Master In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-08-29 20:27:40 +0000 UTC]

I know; you can't completely erase colored pencil graphite, but you can get riid of most of it. Just be sure to keep the eraser marks at slivers, or it will ruin the effect.

Ooo...*click, read*....

I'll definately keep tabs out for the next installment; and don't worry; at least you bother to write your ideas down. My dad tells me thats how it's suppost to be done; just write it down, then re-read in and change any of the parts you don't like. Repeat until you've got it. (Maybe I should take it for myself some time...)

Good luck with the writter's block, and if you ever need any help, just ask me.

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Dark-Singer In reply to Da--Master [2006-09-01 02:02:30 +0000 UTC]

heh, well I currently have my hands tied with an English assignment... and then school starts xP I think the main problem I'm having is plot details. I know generally what I want to happen, just not sure how to get there. I should just sit down and start writing, no matter how crappy it is, and see if I can work with it from there...

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Da--Master In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-09-21 17:44:25 +0000 UTC]

Ah, yes; English assignments and lack of time to work due to school... two things I despise greatly as well.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Just keep working on it, and you'll eventually get what you want; and if you get stuck, you can ask me. I'm always here to help.

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Dark-Singer In reply to Da--Master [2006-10-05 03:19:55 +0000 UTC]

thank you, I shall keep that in mind!

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Da--Master In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-10-05 04:27:11 +0000 UTC]

Your Welcome.

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Abydell [2006-01-19 07:25:38 +0000 UTC]

I always wondered about Shego's powers aswell, they didn't explain them in "Go team Go"....
Did you write that story thing then make the pick to go with it, or the other way?
Anyway it's so cool! Really makes me think. It's a Very interesting idea. I love it.
And the pic is great! Nice work!

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Dark-Singer In reply to Abydell [2006-01-28 01:31:43 +0000 UTC]

umm, a little of both. I've sorta always had this part of the story in my head. I pretty much knew what I wanted to write, I just didn't have a clear idea of what it would look like. I went through a couple trial poses and such and this was only one that worked out. so I finished the pic and wrote the story excerpt like I had planned earlier and adjusted it to fit the pic.

anyways, thanks for the comment. I'm glad you like the idea and the pic. Now I gotta get back to working on the rest of the fic

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Dekarkn [2006-01-06 02:21:45 +0000 UTC]

I seriously don't know what to say about this.

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Dark-Singer In reply to Dekarkn [2006-01-06 07:15:04 +0000 UTC]

hahaha, is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

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Dekarkn In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-01-07 19:19:05 +0000 UTC]

Very good. Hence the

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Dark-Singer In reply to Dekarkn [2006-01-07 20:24:17 +0000 UTC]

okay, i get it now. thank you

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Dinogaby [2006-01-05 21:52:37 +0000 UTC]

hey I think your coloring is pretty good! the rain doesn't look lame to me But I know that coloring by hand can be a pain in the butt... it takes soo long! and I hate to see my colored pencils getting smaller and smaller!! LOL

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Dark-Singer In reply to Dinogaby [2006-01-06 07:14:29 +0000 UTC]

Thanx, im glad it still looks okay. it was a pain to color around the lil raindrop thingys. *twitch* and yes, it's terrible to see your colored pencils waste away til their so small you can't hold them anymore I've gone through like 3 black colored pencils in the past year, lol.

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superbloowonka [2006-01-05 21:20:36 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Very nice picture/story.

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Dark-Singer In reply to superbloowonka [2006-01-06 07:08:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanx buches for the comment/fav

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Guruguru-Kurochan [2006-01-05 15:17:32 +0000 UTC]

She looks some innocent down the rain, cool.

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Dark-Singer In reply to Guruguru-Kurochan [2006-01-05 18:42:48 +0000 UTC]

well, for once she is innocent. Thank you, and thanx for the fav!

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Gubble [2006-01-05 09:49:18 +0000 UTC]

Wow, the colours are awesome. And the rain came out well! Is the picture from the next chapter? Huh?
(And is that a pyjama Shego´s wearing?)

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Dark-Singer In reply to Gubble [2006-01-05 18:39:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanx. I'm glad the rain turned out okay, they kinda started to disappear when I colored in the sky
This isn't in my next chapter... it's actually not gonna happen for quite awhile. A lot more has to happen, fights break out, horrible secrets revealed, all that jazz. I've just had this image in my head for a long time and needed to draw it.
and no, she's in her normal costume, it just looks weird with the way she's sitting
Thanx for the comment and fav

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Gubble In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-01-05 19:19:46 +0000 UTC]

YOu are welcome! (And do you believe I continued my fanfiction a bit Maybe I´ve finished rthe next chap in some months...or
years... )

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Dark-Singer In reply to Gubble [2006-01-06 07:06:16 +0000 UTC]

yay! lol, i know how what its like to have a fic take FOREVER! Im kinda going through that right now w/ mine *twitches* just hang in there and write. write like the wind!!!!

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Gubble In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-01-06 11:44:05 +0000 UTC]

I try, but I´m not very patient.

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justicetoall [2006-01-05 07:33:28 +0000 UTC]

Why will no one help her?! *JTA to the rescue!* XD

On a serious note: I can't use colored pencils if my life depend on it. And I wished I could do that because traditional media gets put in the background by us photoshoppers.

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Dark-Singer In reply to justicetoall [2006-01-05 18:30:55 +0000 UTC]

well, when its the only thing at your disposal, you kinda HAVE to learn to use them. It is kinda cool that you can change how good something looks just by pressing down harder. but I still wish I had photoshop just for the color flexiblility and stuffs. I do have a program that came with my scanner that allows you to edit stuff and I used it to blur my pics so they aren't all pixily and look more like they did before they got scanned, so I technically had help from a computer, but that's about all it can do.

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justicetoall In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-01-05 20:12:39 +0000 UTC]

Yep... and add filters and the like. Photoshop is really awesome...

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ShegosDrakken [2006-01-05 03:56:10 +0000 UTC]

aww shego poor her, but niely drawn

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Dark-Singer In reply to ShegosDrakken [2006-01-05 04:08:03 +0000 UTC]

yeah, Shego's in a bit of a rough spot now. poor thing. *shouts to sky* Will no one help her!?
Thanx for the comment tho

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ShegosDrakken In reply to Dark-Singer [2006-01-05 04:09:07 +0000 UTC]

oh ur so welcome ^^

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