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Published: 2004-01-15 03:28:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 825; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 84
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Newest version of my pirate captain Anthea.Related content
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is it alright if i use this pose for a peice of artwork i'm working on? i luff it!!! xxxx
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Sorry to take so long to reply, been busy and not around often. Anyway, I don't care if you use the pose, poses can't be copywritten because the body can only perform so many different poses and no matter what somewhere, someone is going to used that exact pose. As long you don't copy the actual picture there is no problem.
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yay thanks a lot, well i did use your pose, please take a lot, a comment would be luffely!!!
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Amy xxx
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oops sorry, i meant 'please take a LOOK' not lot lol whoopise!!!
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I like all of your stuff, but I this is my favorite one. It makes me want to read your book.
How do you make your pictures?
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Thank you, for visiting and I'm glad you like my pirate girl. This is my most popular piece in this gallery. The book isn't finished yet, mainly because I've set it aside to do one I'm being paid to write, but I'll finish it someday.
How do I make my pictures you asked? Well, I start with the image in my head and make a rough sketch of the lay out on a piece of regular blank paper. I use photos I've taken, human models occasionally and artist posable modeling dolls for my pose references when doing the sketching. Then I begin to draw the picture on my sketch pad with drawing pencils starting with the character usually and then adding in the background. Once I have the charcoal drawing sketch done, I do the shading and color it with prisma pens or colored pencils if that is the medium I want to original to be. But if I've decided to paint it I have to copy it over onto a canvas and paint it with traditional acrylic paints. This one like many of my more recent works, I take the finished sketch and scan it into my computer. Then I add the color by painting it using Photo Shop 5. I do most of my pictures in layers and then flatten the image, so that it takes on the sharpness of depth of a real painting.
I guess I should post the black and white sketch of this back up so folks could view it as a reference. I'll see about posting it in my scraps if you would like to take a look at it to see the difference.
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Thanks. That was a good description. I was wondering how you got such bright colors and precise boundarys on some of your pics. Although, I think it is your pictures' ability to convey emotions that I appreciate.
The aspect of art (in whatever form) that intrigues me is its ability to convey emotions or concepts that are not dircetly conveyable through language. I think that we, people, accept truth through a subconcious/emotional connection to the stories and images that we percieve. For me, it is this ability to speak to the subconcious that distinguishes art from other works of craft. I think that you have the rare combination of technical skill and the sensitivity to create art.
Todd
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Wow, what a nice thing to say about my work, thanks. I guess in a way I do plan the concept of each piece with thoughts in mind of what it is going to express or say to the viewers. I try to picture in my mind the best or a telling emotional state and setting that would set the mood or give a particular image or impression of the character I want the viewer to see of them. Like this one of Thea, I love the ocean and the activity of nature at work when at the beach and wanted to show it in the background as a way of drawing emphasis to Thea's wild untamed spirit. The bright colors are also used to show part of who she is; tough and ready to fight when pushed, a bit flamboyant and unconventional, yet still feminine enough to be attractive.
Some of this I hope I showed in the Prologue of my book, "The Queen's Revenge" and the first chapter "Sacking the River" I have posted in my gallery. So far those are the only parts of it I have posted here, just to see what everyone thought of the rough draft of them.
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Thanks Yasutsuna, and she can't afford to take notice of her hair since she is about to do battle with an old enemy who just showed up her unaware. She was expecting her lover to meet her so she is be miffed right now, ehehe. Thea is one of those battle tested types who is always on guard.
I glad you liked her outfit, I played around with her in different outfits till I found one that gave her look I was looking for, a rough and ready to fight pirate but yet lets her be a woman too. The landscape was fun and I love doing landscapes especially of the ocean. Thanks for the nice comments on it, I hadn't done an ocean scene like this before and wanted see if I could.
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March 29, 2004
To NyteowlSong
This is just...so WOW!!! (^0^)
I especially love the way her hair is flying about in the wind, and how she doesn't seem to mind it. I don't know, but it imparts a sense of graceful power or something. Coolness! (^-^)
And the way her lips pout like that - aaahhh! She's so hot! (Sorry if i'm sounding like a nut here! ^-^)
I also like her outfit and the color combinations on it - very, very pleasing to the eyes.
And the water - man, I can't remember the last time I saw water this good-looking in a painting. How the light plays in it - ahhh...it makes me feel good just staring at it...
Such great stuff you got here! Keep 'em coming! (^-^)
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What a lovely image! I love her pose, very nice job on the flowing hair. The color choices are bold and bright and clean, looks very much like a comic book! 
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Thanks for all the nice comments damphyr, I guess in a way my style evolved over the years from copying comics as a teen to this. ehhehe I thought I had moved beyond that but it seems that comics have changed to catch up to me again. Maybe that is my problem with galleries like Epilogue, they don't accept comic style art and have rejected every single piece I submit to them in the last couple of years until I just gave up on them.
I loved doing this one and wanted it to have that bright sharpness of a tropical beach cove yet allow her to be a feisty pirate still and not to butchy. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Nice work. The motion in her hair is fantastic, and that background looks great!
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Thanks again, I love to do landscapes and seacapes and the hair is something I can use myself for reference, ehhe, we both have long hair and I know from experience how it goes every which way in the wind. Glad you liked it.
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I like this version better myself. I wanted to make her more like the way I pictured her in my mind...Full of life and wild with a fighting spirit and tough as nails but with a feminine softness still noticable. It really captured the essence of the character I have created in my book I think this time.
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this is awesome, great use of coloring and scenery, i especially like how the hair flies all about really good stuff im soo jealous of your art gift haha.
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Thanks hun, I'm a bit disappointed it the way it distorted a bit in the upload to the site but it was a rather large file so some distortion is to be expected in compression. Thanks again for the nice compliment.
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no need to thanks it was a great work of art i was compelled to speak my mind.
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