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DrewGreen — Riley and Valas for Snitter

Published: 2010-09-20 01:15:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 4504; Favourites: 136; Downloads: 89
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Description Hey folks!

This is a loooooong-overdue commission for the wonderful , whose continued interest in my work is highly appreciated. But she already knows that!

I should start out by saying that this image was not drawn by me, but was only inked and colored by me!!! The pencils were by , but *Snitter hired me to complete the image from the sketch.

Inking the sketch was quite difficult for me, to be honest. I'm used to my sketches being pretty specific to what I'm going to ink (I ink the pencils, I don't pencil to ink, if that makes any sense). ~fayrenpickpocket is a wondeful artist, of course, but her sketch was also a bit loose for my liking from this inker's perspective.

The coloring/shading part wasn't bad, though. I used the method I've been using as of late, and I had a lot of fun! I love coloring, regardless.

I'm really happy with the end result and *Snitter says she is impressed, too, but I must admit that working with someone else's sketch just makes me appreciate my own style a little more, and reminds me that I really do have a handle on it, even when I feel like I don't. In some ass-backwards way, this was a really encouraging project, hehe.

Anyway, enjoy and let me know your thoughts!

Pencils by
Inks in Illustrator CS, colors in Photoshop CS, both by me.

~Drew

This image was created by myself, Andrew "Drew" Green, and ~fayrenpickpocket and was a commision by *Snitter of characters that are copyright to *Snitter . Please do NOT steal the image, or else you'll have an unholy trifecta of anger knocking on your door.
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Comments: 23

ayuICHI [2010-12-08 04:19:22 +0000 UTC]

Ooh, very nice collab!

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bk912002 [2010-09-27 16:57:28 +0000 UTC]


OMG T_T
I watch your gallery from the first, your work is ... hmm
at first time when I looks in an instant your picture, I think 'Very simple and cute ^.^'.
but this picture is awesome!! >.please keep draw a art ever!!! ^_^!!!

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bk912002 In reply to bk912002 [2010-09-27 16:58:09 +0000 UTC]

oh, and i'm sorry to my poor English.... ;;

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Pockaru [2010-09-20 18:11:05 +0000 UTC]

I dig their style quite a lot actually, I'll have to check out the rest of their stuff.

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DrewGreen In reply to Pockaru [2010-09-20 22:21:33 +0000 UTC]

Do! ~fayrenpickpocket hasn't posted in a while, but she's VERY talented.

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Snitter [2010-09-20 11:05:42 +0000 UTC]

Waaaaaah, thanks so much, babe!

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Ingeapplegoose [2010-09-20 08:14:16 +0000 UTC]

ugh luvly*Q* i prefer the left one huuuurrrr

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jennyonjupiter [2010-09-20 03:35:17 +0000 UTC]

From a quick glance through thumbnail view, I really did think you were trying out a new style, haha. I can see why someone would only hire you to ink and color. Your palette use really is top notch. Also, that brush is working wonders on your work.

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ArsonDadko [2010-09-20 02:42:19 +0000 UTC]

Pretty sweet coloring! Always liked youre brushes^^

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Psychorobo [2010-09-20 02:18:31 +0000 UTC]

amazing!

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ZethRina [2010-09-20 02:03:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh hey! It's been awhile since I've seen anything from ~fayrenpickpocket ! I think you did an awesome job on the inking and your colouring skills always make me happy! (:

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Strawberry-Ai [2010-09-20 01:57:36 +0000 UTC]

Love the top hat/ cane combo.

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DrewGreen In reply to Strawberry-Ai [2010-09-20 02:01:14 +0000 UTC]

That's all 's doing, as it's her character. ;D

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Strawberry-Ai In reply to DrewGreen [2010-09-20 02:07:16 +0000 UTC]

nice. I'll check her out. ^-^

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SHadyLAdy-70 [2010-09-20 01:23:24 +0000 UTC]

What tool on Illustrator do you use to ink with?

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DrewGreen In reply to SHadyLAdy-70 [2010-09-20 01:24:33 +0000 UTC]

The pen tool. Some of the lines are stroke, some are fill. Some were even converted from stroke to fill and then modified.

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SHadyLAdy-70 In reply to DrewGreen [2010-09-20 01:30:30 +0000 UTC]

Ok, because I've been trying to find the best way to ink, it makes sense that it would be a combination of all of those things. Thanks, this came out great by the way. I like your use of clean line and textured shadows/highlights.

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DrewGreen In reply to SHadyLAdy-70 [2010-09-20 01:47:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much!

I'm working on an Illustrator tutorial that will cover mostly how I ink, so keep your eyes open for that soon. ;D

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SHadyLAdy-70 In reply to DrewGreen [2010-09-20 01:49:26 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

Will do!

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Artoveli [2010-09-20 01:19:18 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I was going to say! What a different style for you all of a sudden, everything is different!

Well, I think you rose to this challenge quite triumphantly. The result is beautiful! It turned out to be a fine collaboration.

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DrewGreen In reply to Artoveli [2010-09-20 01:23:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! Yeah, I will say it upsets me that many people don't read the artist's comment, because those that don't will think this was all me, which simply wasn't the case. *sigh* Oh well.

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Artoveli In reply to DrewGreen [2010-09-20 01:33:48 +0000 UTC]

I hate knowing that some people don't read the description, especially if they then proceed to comment.

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DrewGreen In reply to Artoveli [2010-09-20 15:51:12 +0000 UTC]

It kills me. I've had people ask questions there were answered in the TITLE of the piece!!! So lazy!

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