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EdieMammon — Iggy Koopa's Insidious Ideas
Published: 2014-06-21 19:42:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 4158; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 3
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Under the guidance of my dearest Demented Windmills, I'm trying to create more flowing, varied movements and shading to the Your Poison of Choice - characters.Inspired by this: demented-windmills.deviantart.… artwork of hers.
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What do you find so spooky about it?
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It's not a knife, it's a shank fashioned from a squeegee. A running gag
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Not sure if I should be flattered or gravely insulted.
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You need to work on the shading. I am good at shading, mostly by smearing graphite around with my fingers and then using a pointy eraser end as an art tool in itself to create highlights. In one of my high school art classes, I had to pay an art materials fee - or rather, go behind the Bitch's back to get the fee waived knowing she wouldn't pay it - but it was worth it either way because of the supplies used. They included squeeze tube watercolor paints, oil paints, charcoal, chalk pastels, some brown sticks that the teacher described as the bastard child of charcoal and chalk pastels, a fancy pen, pencils with three different grades of lead (numbers other than two) and an eraser that you could squish and mold like a lump of clay. That's useful when you need a very skinny end. Every student got their own supplies, but I had to give the watercolors back at the end of the year. I did however keep a bag with the pencils and pen and erasers in it.
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It's just a lot easier to shade large than small artworks, and it's easier to shade watercolor works than "dry" color works. That also looks more natural, at least for someone of my skill level. Which I do spend a lot of time perfecting.
I'm so glad I bought a spare batch of Faber Castell watercolor pencils before they changed the formula. Before the colors were duller and had a very realistic and classy aquarelle effect and now, haven given into this all-natural recycling organic bullshit, the new pencils break easily, the colors are too bright and opaque and look like those of a kindergartener's watercolor set.
Those I have now won't last forever. Caran D'ache's watercolor pencils are also on the vibrant side, but not the bright side, having a more organic look. They appear prominently in my Dead Iggy - art. They can be combined with regular colored pencils to balance out the lack of color shade. Really opaque coloring on characters and a lighter watercoloring of the backgrounds is a neat contrast. If one remembers to wait to scan the work until it's completely dry
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When I was in kindergarten, there was an art contest to design the best book fair poster. I drew a poster with a bunch of teeny weeny dinosaurs reading books, with more detail and skill than you expect from a kindergartener, and I lost to a kid who drew a crayon scribbled blob. Everybody liked how nice and big his art was, I on the other hand can only draw tiny things. Maybe that's why my pictures don't look like photographs, like some of these humongous pencil sketches I see featured.
I had an instructional aide in sixth grade who let me use her Faber-Castell art supplies.
I'm terrible with both colored pencils and watercolors, but watercolor pencils I think would cancel out my weaknesses in both media. They are so much more expensive than regular colored pencils, even the cheap ones. I got to use some for some of the scenes in that comic that I haven't quite gotten around to putting together and uploading yet, and they do have that messy kiddie art set look. But that is mostly because I am unskilled and impatient with them. My best traditional media to this day is still regular no. 2 pencils, since I got plenty of practice doodling in the margins of my schoolwork while in class, too bored and ADHD to listen nor benefit from listening, and needing something to do with my hands.
Have you ever experienced the horror of those dollar store art kits like the Bitch used to buy me every Christmas, with oil pastels that had the texture of crayons, crayons that don't color, stubby colored pencils, an eraser that doesn't erase, a pencil sharpener that breaks easily, and cheapass watercolors with one of those stubby plastic bristle brushes?
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"guidance" i didn't know i was guiding anyone 
but if you would like some tips on shading, keep in mind where the light source(s) is(are) and how light plays on certain surfaces/materials 
i love how resentful the iggy in the gown looks, and then the other one just seems so gleeful 
i like the dark shading on the iggy on the left, especially on his hair and shell
ooh, i noticed you indicated their bones on their elbows, knees and ankles with little lines, i like that
i can just see the iggy in the gown rocking back and forth, his positioning is great!
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So desperate for attention and ironically because he lacks new impulses, he spends countless hours making the very same movement. It's recorded in his Institute file along with his violent mood swings. At the Institute the doctors are usually referred to as "landlords" and the inmates "residents". I suggest the landlords find something more stimulating for the residents to do...
Iggy's mood is always somber when he's in that gown, because as it says in the fic he feels a lot more naked and vulnerable with it on than without it. It does make him level up in dementedness, though.
I don't usually do much shading because it doesn't as come naturally to me as it does to other artists and forcing it would make it look as if I'm trying too hard. The use of color and the detail I put into it more than makes up for it, at least to me
I love the Dead Iggy picture you did. It's my phone screensaver
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perhaps they could play chess with one another
well if it doesn't come naturally don't do it 
and shading can just be part of some ones style, you have a clean smooth style, with your smooth bright colors and distinctive out lining. that is perfectly suited for comics, which you mainly draw. and when you do create more detailed works you do use detail, color scheme, and some shading, so it does work.
i don't have a reason for a smooth clean style, i draw large portrait style pictures, which rely on detail and shading to be worth looking at. so shading doesn't have to be something that every one does, only if it is a natural part of their style
oh wow, i didn't know you liked it that much 
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