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Published: 2011-02-08 19:11:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 10898; Favourites: 251; Downloads: 371
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For prize art for winning the coloring contest. She wanted a dragon and a fairy wearing a kimono. Hope you all enjoy it. Yes, the download is HUGE, but I had too much fun with this one to skimp on the details, thanks for such an awesome request =RomanticFaeHer coloring of it:
There are no coloring guidelines for this, be as create as you like. To see more about the contest, make sure to visit the
Colors!
Blue: and Pink:
FLATS!
~sld has taken the liberty to create high quality flats of this set of lines, which you can find here:
You may use these to aid you in coloring the image.
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Comments: 54
I enjoyed coloring this very much.
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I just wanted to be sure. Is it okay to color this digitally?
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Can you upload this in a file compatible with MS Paint? I want to join the coloring contest but I don't have Photoshop.
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can't paint read jpeg?
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I didn't even think about that, hehe. I ended up using some website to convert the file to a PNG and it ended up coming out really small but I still colored it anyway. xD
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As I saw, but in the future, you can remember that jpeg does work, and if you just right click on the image, you can then save it to your computer and it will be a jpeg.
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Yeah, thank you. Hehe, I wish I would have thought about that sooner. I still could do that, but I'm kinda too lazy to recolor the image. xD
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I love this and so going to try my best to color it but can I fix it so the kimono is not see throw?
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yeahh. It is a half-sheet. It is difficult to color, a challenge.
I discovered that my right eye is dominant is the one I blink when I concentrate on coloring with Copic.
I will try to color it to enter your contest
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That is interesting, I tend to tilt my head sometimes when I concentrate
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Oh, I do have a question.
Can you use any color or does it have to be similar to the flats?
Plus I tried downloading it and I don't have that program so I had to right click to 'save picture as' to save the pic. ^^
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Any color you want. ^^
So were you able to get it?
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Cool. ^w^
Yes I was able to get it, in the 'save picture' way.
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Yep.
You make up really neat pen-names and I love them. XD You have a thing for being scared-like and birds. XD
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Nah, I don't really, there is sort of a story being the names, and it is more like an inside joke than anything else.
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That is very, very pretty and delicate and I like the color of the line art.
The dragon, I want to take it with me because it is so cute. Very different from the 'traditional' looking dragon.
A part of me wants to color it but a part of me doesn't. I've hit a major art block. 
I will fave and save it. :3
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I know how art blocks go. Mine is physical... too many other projects... but yours is probably just as detrimental. I hope you do color it. Perhaps if you just start with the dragon for the fun of it. ^^
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Not just art blocks, I'm having Real Life problems. I'm trying to get a job.
The dragon looks like fun to color.
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Aren't we all trying to do that? 
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I almost had an interview! I was in MI when I got a phone call on my cell phone and when the person asked me if I could come in tomorrow and I said I'm in MI and she laughed because she couldn't believe it. She told me to call her back when I return and I did, only to learn all the seasonal positions were filled. What's the point of telling to call back? Oh well.
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That is too bad. Oh well.
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Highly detailed precision flats are available for this piece now: [link]
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Can we color this using any medium? I only have crayola colored pencils and sharpies, but I'm willing to give it a go. xD For fun, and experience. But would only digital coloring be accepted? If so, can just color it and show you guys? XDD
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Yes, you can. No, the prize includes traditional art tools, so it would be silly to only allow digital entries. I encourage traditional work, as I have great respect for a well done work that didn't use the nice short cuts of the computer to help it evolve.
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^-^ Okay, I'll get it done. (:
Thanks for your time!
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No, I don't generally make flats, I leave it up to others to color them how they like, but if you want to make a flat, be my guest
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Wow, these lines are just incredibly elegant and beautiful, yet strong!
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Thank you, and thank you for the donation too
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i hope this wins ive been meaning to colour it but this will give me a kick in the bum to do it
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I think it will, and yes, it would indeed. Seems kind of fitting too.
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Its a wonderful line-art!!! I like both poses and details
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Thanks, it was a lot of fun to draw
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Wow! Amazing as always. I really like how you pose your artwork. I need to learn to do that, I always seem to have something coming off the page and it looks bad.
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Two suggestions:
1. make a super duper rough sketch first... literally, just blobs to represent placement of the various elements of your picture. This will solve the problem of things falling off the page. Then, like a carving artist with wood or a sculptor with clay, start to add shape by making various modifications. Start from very obscure and work toward more and more detail. Once you have the placement and the proportions more or less defined and when you are satisfied with how it looks and where it is, then start the more serious work or making the first sketch more or less. That process can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on how elaborate the composition you are working with is. If you are worried about too many sketch marks, you can always finish the sketch, ink the final sketch in pen, and then trace you work on a different page as finished lines. That way, there are no erase marks. I do this often.
2. For the poses, piggy back off of other artists and other pictures. I still do that to a degree from time to time. I'm not talking about copying a picture exactly or even nearly exactly. Just grabbing bits and pieces of different pictures. Lets say you are imagining a particular pose, if you know the general direction the face is looking, find a reference of a face in that direction to help guide you. If you know the shape a particular arm or hand will be making, find a reference for that. And so on. This helps you to get a good grasp on making a natural looking pose, as you will see little details that you don't already know, and that makes all the difference. You only need to give credit to the various reference images if there is a strong influence there, where it seems pretty obvious that it is referenced from that image or this image. For this one, I actually used a reference for the shape of her torso, as it helped me to create the busty look I thought Romanticfae would like. It also helped me to get the bend of the torso to look natural. That picture was an unclothed image though, and so I ended up changing even that by covering her in a kimono. I also used a reference for the Lilly, and two different references to inspire the shape of the dragon's body, as well as three different butterfly and one fairy image to help me figure out how I wanted to do the wings but since in the end, there is no clear similarity, the work is ultimately mine, and to include links to these would just leave people scratching their heads, trying to find out why I am giving credit to a completely and totally different looking image. As you do this, you're ability to draw natural looking poses will increase, and you will need these various references less and less. I do not use any references for inspiration or for help in getting a natural pose for most of my work these days... but I do still use that method when I feel a little stuck. Basically, it is the internet artist's equivalent to hiring a model to come in and strike a pose... something every great artist in the Renaissance had to do.
Doing direct references of poses you find very nice looking is also a great learning tool, but you would need permission to post that, and of course, give credit, but it is a very effective way to build your repertoire of poses and develope an understanding of the human figure.
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Why thank you. ^^ That will help me very much.
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Sure, I know it is easier for some artists to have large lines to work with. It is more possible to downsize than enlarge lines.
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