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Published: 2012-01-08 18:44:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 1707; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 0
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variation 3 # 7: fairyTakin a break from requests to draw something for myself. Picked up one of my old drawing books "Fantasy Characters" by J Neondragon Peffer, and drew one of her characters. Her work is pretty cool, so you should go to the library and check out some of her books. So I can't say this is my own original design. I can say however, that I took my own liberties to put my own tastes in the picture. The most obvious thing is the color scheme and the textures. The original was a white fairy, with purple hair and red attire that appeared to be made of cloth. I also simplified the picture, added, subtracted and swapped a couple of things to put my twist on it.
I must say though, It was done in both crayola and prismacolor marker, and it represented a challenge. Bought my prismas a couple years back and I had no clue how to use em. Someone even told me to stay away from markers because they are really hard to use. Well, like most of my art supplies I didn't understand, i put them down for a couple of years, practiced with coloring and my art skills, and I started to fiddle with crayola markers. So when I felt confident enough, I began using these again, and it looks like a couple years of hard work finally paid off. So never give up!
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Tools of the Trade: Prismacolor marker, Crayola marker, white pen
So here's the question guys- what parts of the picture were done in Crayola? can you tell?
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thanks, but I can't take credit for the design of this picture. I got it from another artist 
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still though, you drew it?
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oh yeah, I did
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Ah ok well in that case nice drawing
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thank you c:
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Cool drawing, Do the crayola markers ruin your paper? How many layers can it resist? Can you get an even coat of color (no streakyness) Can they blend a bit? I want to use them in my sketchbook for sketches, i don't want them to look professional just good
thank you
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thanks
1. I don't use computer paper, I tend to use sketchbook paper, or higher quality paper like bristol, manga paper, sketchpaper, even white construction paper is better than printer paper.
2. It depends on the type of paper you use? I find that watercolor paper is pretty resistant to if you wanna pile on the layers. But I try to do minimal layers, from darkest to lightest and work quickly, usually three layers max.
3. It's much easier to not get streaking in small areas. this picture is on a regular sized sheet of paper, and her skin areas are pretty small, so it's easy to not streak. Larger areas are more difficult. In some cases streaking can be to your advantage though, like when you wanna go for a textury look like in jeans, or hair
4. Yes they can blend
5. and is money an issue? I know it can be since these things cost money... there are alternative brands that are pretty reasonable. there is an alochol based brand on amazon.com called noir. a 24 pack for just under $40. It's good
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Wow, thank you for your reply, this really helped me out! Thank you for your time
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No problem
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I think i will stick with the crayola's, i only want to use them in my sketchbook for color reference. I don't plan on making finishd artwork with them, so i go for as cheap as posible
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ok
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Beautiful work nonetheless, really well done, thank you, Mike.
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Thank you! I tried! ^\^ <3 I love your art :3
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your welcome^^ and thank you;w;
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hat is obviously crayola because they aren't known for highly detailing markers as Prismacolor is.
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haha, nice try but no.
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fair enough, but still. crayola is not pramarialy detailing still. they do have a few detailing markers but not many, only about 30 shades of over the 700 they produce for colors. every 1204 prismacolor markers has a detailing color and every media with a detailing to it. It's a set you buy right from them directly that's about 2 grand buy is 6500 pieces.
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That's pretty awesome, but I am a poor college student xD I buy most of my name brand supplies on huge sales xD I use whatever I can get my hands on honestly
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Actually most my work are done in a F Tichonderoga mechanical pencil or a Generals(TM) 6b graphite pencil.
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I noticed x3 which is good
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honestly, I'm technically a professional traditional artist, but since i can't scan 3 foot square or larger pictures, i can't shoew them until my camera is replaced sicne it broke some time ago.
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lol, I am an amateur xD fiddle with art on my free time. stress relief xD gonnna be a sophmore in college this upcoming year xD art isn't even a major of mine, tho maybe in another life It woulda been xD but it'd be cool to post some of your big stuff
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Some of my big stuff i may be able to mimic in a smaller scanable version if you want to see them.
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Hey, that sounds awesome ^^ I think we would all love to see them!
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I'm sure we all would. By any chance would you like to do a war military with you being my oc Arene, who is my oc Dairen's girlfriend, which he is a dragon and she is a human?
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Like draw? That sounds awesome ^^ unfortunately I can't get to it right this minute :/ I have a couple pictures I promised people 
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no, as a note rp.
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Ah, that sounds cool
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sent a beginning note.
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I know right?!
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yes! crayola user!!!!!!!!
i think the wings were done with crayolas! i love the color! the hair...i think is with crayolas!
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Darn right! xD I have Prismacolors and one copic marker(bought waaaaay on sale) but I have a lot of crayola and cheap name brands and they work just fine! -w- lol xD not quite xD. The skin tone was done with Crayola's new line of markers. I think they are called the muliti-cultural? O.o Anything Brown in the picture and parts of the hair! xD good guess!bout time crayola came out with a line of markers so I can practice different skin tones xD
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Her wings are gorgeous and she totally has that sassy look
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Thanks so much!
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Wow, Janiel, great job! 8D I absoluetely love the coloring on this picture; you really did an amazing job. :3
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Thanks so much!
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My pleasure, you deserve it~ 
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