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Loulin — Market day
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Published: 2016-07-22 07:24:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 578; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 2
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July 2016
Hey, you!
Yes. You, my dear.
Lookin’ for something?
Something special?
I’ve got what you want.
Come closer, we can make a deal
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Yeah… my advice for you is: never trust a salesman, imaginary or not. They are notoriously shifty fellows.
(A virtual cookie to any and all who can give me tasty suggestions on what might be in all these boxes and jars)
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Just as detailed (oooh, fun fun details) as ever but at least trying to practice new stuff like gestures and male faces (so difficult). I my opinion I got the smile/smirk right at the very first rough sketch and then botched it a bit with the final lineart. Also tricky this time to achieve a good balance between light and dark; the background had to be darker than the foreground but not so dark that all the knickknacks on the shelves disappeared.
And perhaps not the best title there is; for once I had a hard time deciding on a title. Usually they pop up in my head very early on. But... A simple title is better than no title.
Technical stuff: Pencil, pencil, and lots of more pencil. As usual my faithful 0.5 mm mechanical, aided by the 0.7, HB and 3B.
Size: Slightly smaller than an A3
Time: Not as time consuming as the last pencil drawing but there was still a whole two month gap between the finishing the lineart and beginning with the shading/texturing, whereupon I spent some very industrious eight days to complete the thing. “Only” about 43 hours in total.
EDIT: dec19 2016 - Awarded Bubblare in the group KingdomOfSweden's journal: Nyhetsbrev v.51 - sista for 2016
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Excellent choice, Madam! Excellent taste!
While you're at it, may I tempt you further with an ounce of rare and exclusive Luonga leaves? Just got a fresh order in this morning. Half the price, just for you.
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Grattis du har fått en bubblare för detta verk! Motivering finns i senaste nyhetsbrevet. Du är välkommen att använda Bubblare-stamp i din deviations description
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En så rolig överraskning! Stort tack.
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wow that's so intricate! i'm a huge fan of details and an amazed there are no smudges. what paper did you draw on?
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Got to have lots of details 
Currently I'm using the Canson 1557, extra white, light grain 120 g/m, drawing pad. Not the best I've had but it's the next best thing so far. While I usually prefer slightly thinner drawing paper, the reason my drawings are fairly smudge-free (unless it's intentional) is because I always use a couple of paper sheets as a protection layer. That way my hand and arm doesn't smear the graphite around while I'm drawing.
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Shifty,huh? Then he propably have some "rare" ingredients like grinded unicornus horn powder or dragon blood, dragon or troll teeths, perhaps even a dragon egg somewhere. And if he really is a bit sly one, those more hidden drawers may reveal spanish fly dust, ginseng root or some other medicine which will make the user feverishly eager, like some male baboon. (at least according to some ancient sale-speech by Sinuhe the egyptian)
Good to see you back with the traditional pencil and details. And no lack of those details in this one.
That gesture and expression (smirk) of his is good but perhaps you could have emphasized it a bit more with a tilted eyebrow? Or was you goal this more subtle one?
But what I think is the best detail in this one... his shirt and especially those wrinkles in it.
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I think there will be many a "rare" ingredient in various seen and unseen cannisters around that particular market stall. Maybe even that dragon egg, up to and incuding "some other medicine which will make the user feverishly eager, like some male baboon".
It is of course up for interpretation but in my mind it was always that place where you buy both legal and slightly illegal things - things that are rare, possibly dangerous and definitelly suspicious - from a salesman that might not be entirely honest while trying to skim you for money or other valuables with a glint in his eye.
I could have added a tilted eyebrow, yes, but it was never the goal. I think it would have looked too cartoonish too me. So I tried to aim for something more subtle. Haha... Drawing a male face with a smirk was hard enough as it was.
Ah... the shirt was both a tricky and fun one. Had to put on one of my own shirts and look at it to see where the creases would turn up. Some of my own favourites in there are the smallest of the glass bottles, the strange metal ball on the right and the "tufts" on the shelves. (I was very pleased with them, thinking they were satisfingly weird, but then I had to darken everything to make the forground pop, which was a little bit dissappointing but there you go - there is always some case of "kill your darlings".)
I am sure you already noticed but I tried to throw in a couple of familiar things, like the bones, the shape of one of the bottle corks, the spoon tree and the curious creature from last year in one of the cages. To make it part of the same world in a way.
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It is of course up for interpretation but in my mind it was always that place where you buy both legal and slightly illegal things - things that are rare, possibly dangerous and definitelly suspicious - from a salesman that might not be entirely honest while trying to skim you for money or other valuables with a glint in his eye. And I think that you have managed to bring that feeling to the picture. At least that was just what I thought and imagined those "not-so-legal" and "rare" things in his back room drawers.
Hmm, you may be right with the tilted eyebrow. I have drawn cartoon figures so much that those exaggerated expressions have already come natural for me. Those might seem a bit odd in realistic ones. But what comes to male features I agree that those are not so easy to draw when one has used them so rarely.
Yes, I noticed the "curious find" in one of the cages, although I wasn't so sure at first because its head was tilted towards the viewer and was therefore a little harder to recognise. Perhaps that female traveler sold her finding to this shady shop (although it is not so cheerful thought to think her to be so materialist. But adventurers often are.) Spoon tree too, perhaps there are even those dreaded yellow leaves in some of his jars? That would suit the "more dangerous and illegal" department. 
What comnes to those "tufts" I first thought (especially from the one on the left) that he doesn't have the exoskeleton of a face-hugger on sale, does he!?!?! But from the right one I saw that it was some sort of a plant. Or is it perhaps a nest of a rare bird? They sold swallow nests back then did they not?
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Oh my goodness, he has facehuggers for sale!!! 
Double cookies for you for being so inventive.
I tried to make the cork of the middle bottle (the one that seems to have pellets in it) a bit like the shape or siluett of the head of a bonedog - the round face and the curvature of the shield - but I suppose it kind of looks like a tomte-hat as well. Maybe somewhere in that world there are the equivalent of a more traditional tome, secretly helping out on farms, looking after the animals and things.
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Head of a bonedog... of course I see it NOW that you said it.
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It looks like he'd sell mostly mundane medicinal herbs and spices. Well mundane for the world he lives in. I'm thinking something akin to a Chinese apothecary, though there are no where near enough little draws for that.
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Mundane stuff is also good. Headache remedies, skin potions, the equivalent of energy bars and vitamins and whatnots...
At some point I did wonder whether I should add more drawers or not but decided against it in the end, seeing it was pretty busy in the background as it was already.
Thanks for stopping by.
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