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My first ever Photoshop, done in my Intro to Photoshop class.It's the Good Witch of the North and Glinda the Good of the South, and the Wicked Witches of the East and West, who Dorothy destroyed. From the East Witch, Dorothy obtained the Silver Slippers. From the West Witch, she obtained the Golden Cap to command the Winged Monkeys.
Colored according the their regional color.
North: Purple for Gillikin Country
East: Blue for Munchkinland
West: Yellow for the Winkies
South: Red for Quadling Country
The Center: Green of course for the Emerald City
Pen drawing and Photoshop
Characters (c) L. Frank Baum
Art (c) Able Tong
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I finally finished reading all 14 books of the 'wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum' a few years ago. I love it!
Now there is a 15 book but it was made after the Author died-- so I don't consider that canon to the series.
And I liked the way it ended in the 14 book they didn't need any more.
Oh and if you ever do decided to read them read them with the original picture's it helps tell the story better!
But if already read them then thats cool too!
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I am so happy someone else took the time to read some of the books and not just look at the movie. I love the books, but I almost never encounter someone who knows the true color of the shoes, or the regional colors of the Land of Oz. this is beautiful.
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The Good Witch of the North acts as a babysitter for Ojo!
Ojo complains about the way the Good Witch set the table for dinner. The food smells funny, and it isn't fixed the way Ozma does it. He likes the way Ozma does it better. The Witch yells to Ojo that she's not Ozma. Ojo says Ozma loves him more than life itself. She lets him do whatever he wants. Ojo calls the Good Witch of the North a nasty ol' barracuda. The Good Witch can't believe she postponed a date for this.
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Interesting and beautiful. But why does good witch of north look like fairy?
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Very cool! I like the fairy-godmother wings you gave to the witch of the north.
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It's nice two see two different looking wicked witches, rather than two similar, generically ugly old hags.
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It would be cool if yo could do the Mombi the former wicked witch of the north and the wicked witch of the south.
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Or she thought she destroyed the wicked witch of the west.
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Oooh, nice drawing
I love your lines, they're done with pen, right? Also the colours go really nicely together. And good job on the witches' design too, it gives them character.
Your shading is a bit off, though it's still excellent for a first time in Photoshop 
Overall it's a very lovely drawing, I really like it! Good luck with Photoshop
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I love this!! its so cute!! the pen drawing is beautifully done! as for the photoshop bit I would add some more higlights, especially to the red witch. I see that the red is also coloured out of the contours, if this is what you wanted you should do all the colours over the contour lines but to divide the witches i would rather stick to their own colour inside the lines.
Other than that it is a beautiful drawing and certainly doesn't look like it's your first one!!! Great work!
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I love the diffrent colors you used here, and how graceful Glinda looks! 
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she does? oops! oh well, like movie!Glinda said: "bad witches are ugly!" lol
thanks for the feedback!
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I'm a huge Wicked fan and I do like the movie better than the book, but there are elements of the book that I liked a lot (I've got the Annotated version)
I love how Nessarose/The Witch of the East looks, sort of like some badass duelist witch in Harry Potter. (Plus I like her gloves). G'linda looks so beautiful and graceful. Elphaba/The Witch of the West looks tough, and I like how you've merged elements of the booka and movie versions. Locasta/The Witch of the North reminds me of a Smurf though. Love the colors and how the it seems like power and light is aminating from the staffs and wand.
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this looks very nice, and I'm not just saying that because I love the Wizard of Oz. The colouring and shading technique you used looks almost traditional yet it's clean and neat. I love the colour arranging idea and the style - fits nicely with a story book look
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Hey guess what I'm listening to!!! --Defying Gravity from Wicked! Ironic, eh?
Well, you did an especially good job on the colouring> Brova!
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Excellent, both in concept and execution! 
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thanks!!!
Personally, I think Silver is the best, it goes very well on the Yellow (Gold!) Brick Road.
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Wow, this put a smile right on my face. Each of the characters are very well-realized--original, while still being recognizable. And the construction of the piece is fantastic; each of the witches are seperate, even divided by line (and color), and yet they flow into each other, just a bit, exactly as they must.
My only suggestion is that this should probably be catergorized under fanart.
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thanks for the feedback!!!
You know, I had thought about that, except that being public domain and all, I put my own spin on things, so... yeah, IDK :/
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Great piece! All the characters posses a different personality clearly displayed through their face and body language. The details are fantastic, and the drawing isn't stuffy. Great job!
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I like it how everything is sort of not caged in their own little section if you know what I mean XD I think East is my favourite in this picture, I think it's that look in her eye lol
Did you use some sort of texture in the background by chance??
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thanks!!!
the texture is really just the paper I drew the lines on, it got enhanced when I made the lines darker.
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This is pretty good for a first photoshop. I like how you incorporated elements related to each witch rather than drawing all four of them and leaving it at that.
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thanks!!! yeah, I think the witches were really cool. It's a shame that a lot of people only think of the MGM movie or Wicked when it comes to Oz. The original books are so under appreciated.
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Unfortunately I have not read the books, though we used to have a couple of them. D:
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I believe you can read them online. you should definitely check it out!
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Great! Really love it.
I'm so glad that at least someone draws art based on books, not the movie or the musical.
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Yes! Love this, and the correct correlation of characters, I love Glinda, but most people don't know is the fact she is from the south and is a redhead.
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