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Published: 2007-08-21 00:10:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 1734; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 10
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Description This is a gift for my good friend . I'm proud to say that while it has its mistakes (like the way the neck connects to the head), it's my best piece to date. I hope you like it, Robert! Here's your Geoffroy's Cat girl.

I think my scanner knew that this piece was special to me. For once, this is darned near true to the original. I'd say, the only real differences are that the shading of the moss she's sitting on and the farthest trees is less smooth. The scanner didn't like the Warm Grey 90%, I take it. Some of the other shading isn't quite as smooth as it is in person but still looks alright.

I'm not really sure what else to say, other than that I learned some new tricks, and I'm really pleased with the result. One of the tricks I learned is kind of a "color floating" thing, where I can tweak values to be lighter (rather than just blending things from the next lightest color) and also fill in for dying markers without altering the color. I can use a healthy marker in place of a half-dead one yet still get the dying one's color at full saturation. It's really hard to explain but trust me, it works. The scanner saw through my trick on some of the greens, though, so the substitute color shows in some places. Just means some transitions are a bit less subtle as you guys see this.

Sakura Pigma Micron, Prismacolor Markers.
Artwork (c) me, ~Peachfuzz .
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Comments: 99

Peachfuzz In reply to ??? [2013-09-11 20:45:16 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thank you for the amazing comment and the fav! I love to make environments for the characters that I draw to inhabit.

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JeMiChi In reply to Peachfuzz [2013-09-11 20:51:33 +0000 UTC]

No problem ^^
I'm always glad to find artists who do that, since that tells way more about the character (s) than a backgroundless picture could ever do.
And looking at your backgrounds I get the feeling that you really enjoy drawing them

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Peachfuzz In reply to JeMiChi [2013-09-11 20:57:08 +0000 UTC]

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UndeniableGuile [2009-11-01 02:08:57 +0000 UTC]

That is so cute. *wants to hug tightly*

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Peachfuzz In reply to UndeniableGuile [2009-11-01 17:55:21 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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fluffah-pickles [2009-01-10 18:48:37 +0000 UTC]

the way you color is really good! i would never pull it off with the type of media you use.
you're awesome.

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Peachfuzz In reply to fluffah-pickles [2009-01-11 04:57:09 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ever so much for your comments and favs! You made me so happy! <3

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fluffah-pickles In reply to Peachfuzz [2009-01-11 15:06:00 +0000 UTC]

no problem! you're a good artist.

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ScurvySimon [2008-11-30 03:30:56 +0000 UTC]

I really like this! The details you put in the background are very cool, especially the green plants and the vines. Great job on the character herself, too - I think you did really well getting all those markings in, and the texture on the hair is nicely done. Cool picture.

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Peachfuzz In reply to ScurvySimon [2008-12-01 00:24:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for your kind words. This was challenging but also fun!

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Kelii [2008-11-09 21:45:41 +0000 UTC]

I wish I had marker skills like that! love the rich colors. Dense. Like the jungle she's in.

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Peachfuzz In reply to Kelii [2008-11-09 21:50:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for your kind comments. I had an absolute blast coloring this one.

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Nighthyena [2008-05-07 05:20:00 +0000 UTC]

niiiiice, I like the rich colours in this piece! I also like the pose she's in! You're extreamly talented with markers! I can never get marker drawings right. Ah well, SUPER FAVED! *click*

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Peachfuzz In reply to Nighthyena [2008-05-07 14:34:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! That's really kind of you.

I envy your colored pencil skills, because I suck with them.

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Nighthyena In reply to Peachfuzz [2008-05-08 05:16:46 +0000 UTC]

lol, no problem! I envy youre marker skills!

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N7Dovahkiir [2008-04-06 18:46:13 +0000 UTC]

Pretty cute and furry!!
Nice work, i love the colors

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Raalhaan [2008-01-12 23:43:22 +0000 UTC]

She is definately cute... you do excellent work! And I doubt I could ever get markers to look that good... I'm more a pencils guy... and I almost always mix-media with digital. Yet you're better than me with a difficult media... my hat's off to you.

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Peachfuzz In reply to Raalhaan [2008-01-13 00:15:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a ton. For the nice attention on this piece as well as that on several of my other works!

"Difficult media" varies from person to person, I'd say. I grew up using markers, so they're actually the easy media to me. Colored pencils confound me to no end, as does digital. It's all just preferences and experience.

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Raalhaan In reply to Peachfuzz [2008-01-13 00:37:21 +0000 UTC]

I suppose so... but i think most people can make coloring from pencil easier than ink... it's more forgiving. I'm always impressed by your work.

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Peachfuzz In reply to Raalhaan [2008-01-13 02:10:37 +0000 UTC]

I agree with you that colored pencils are easier than markers for most people, but for a different reason. Experience versus inherent difficulty.

It seems to me, colored pencils are so much more popular than markers that it's perpetuated a persistent public opinion that markers are somehow harder... Because they are to most people due to a relative lack of experience with them versus colored pencils. Markers are harder for most people because they've barely used them, not because markers themselves are inherently more difficult. You see, most people grow up using pencils, while few touch decent markers until much later, after the quirks of colored pencils are firmly ingrained in their experience. (Markers suck for anyone trying to use them like colored pencils) If the situation was reversed and most people grew up using markers and not colored pencils, the myth would be the opposite, that colored pencils are "difficult and unforgiving".

You see, I am one of those people who grew up using primarily markers rather than colored pencils. And so to me, markers are easy and forgiving while colored pencils are frustrating and unforgiving. Not because either one is actually easier or harder, but because I have lots of experience using one and comparitively little using the other. Experience, not inherent difficulty.

Granted, personal taste has a hand in it just as experience does. Even when equally experienced with both, people tend to find one or the other easier just out of personal taste. Which still means that neither one is inherently harder or less forgiving.

Hope what I wrote made some sense.

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Raalhaan In reply to Peachfuzz [2008-01-13 02:26:04 +0000 UTC]

It does. I only find colored pencils more forgiving for one reason... erasors work! *laughs*

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Peachfuzz In reply to Raalhaan [2008-01-13 02:40:50 +0000 UTC]

Markers can be "erased" with their colorless blenders or associated chemicals (solvents for solvent-based markers, water for water-based markers, etc.). It's more like bleaching in the case of markers but it accomplishes the same thing. Erasability varies by brand with colored pencils, I've found. Fantasia and Col-Erase come up beautifully but others like Prisma and Crayola won't erase worth crap, even when I go lightly and with a light color. I can bleach out the equivalent marker color much more easily than I can erase those two types of colored pencils.

Pros and cons, both of them. Neither better nor worse, just different. It always boils down to experience and personal taste...

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Raalhaan In reply to Peachfuzz [2008-01-13 02:54:34 +0000 UTC]

True enough, M'lady. True enough.

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KyoshiroTheMedic [2008-01-07 17:14:30 +0000 UTC]

She has a cute tummy. :3

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VVatchword [2007-12-04 21:33:39 +0000 UTC]

Oh, so beautiful and bright.

What else can I say? I think it is definitely one of your best pieces. And the depth and fullness of color is so perfect.

Your art is a pleasure to look at, Peach

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Kittensoft [2007-10-12 17:38:01 +0000 UTC]

I really like the colors

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RadosBadger [2007-10-08 16:18:12 +0000 UTC]

So this is what happens when they cut me for a couple of weeks from internet. They should pay for it and I donΒ΄t have money in mind. I waded through comments of the others and I have nothing new for you to say except that this piece came out great! I donΒ΄t know about many to compete with you and itΒ΄s a shame itΒ΄s this late to tell you.

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Peachfuzz In reply to RadosBadger [2007-10-08 16:25:31 +0000 UTC]

I still appreciate it. Thanks so much for the kind comment! Glad to hear that you have internet again.

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Big-Red13 [2007-09-28 18:23:19 +0000 UTC]

Sooooo cool!

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Peachfuzz In reply to Big-Red13 [2007-09-28 21:22:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the fav, glad you like it!

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enchantma [2007-09-09 17:33:05 +0000 UTC]

wow~you did an amazing job on the animal print and colors! the background looks great too!

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Spyketh [2007-09-02 05:25:00 +0000 UTC]

Your anthro work is really good. My favourite thing about all of these, though, are these elaborate backgrounds - they are VERY well done. (:

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electromagnt [2007-08-29 14:41:06 +0000 UTC]

Tis amazing!

Holy Carp!

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Catgoyle [2007-08-29 08:05:40 +0000 UTC]

Rich, lovely colors, fun pose and a sweet looking character... I need to hurry up and finish inking my latest work so I can start the coloring phase! (sighs) Oh well... soon. Yes, soon...

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CrazySkye [2007-08-28 05:29:31 +0000 UTC]

wow, I would agree with you on the best piece of yours yet! THis is fantastic! YOu did a splendid job shading the fur itself, it looks natural and soft. Her hair is really well highlighted, its subtle, but perfect for the mood! And the background? You scored, buddy! that is really well done, my dear! So, exactly how does this dying marker trick work?

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Peachfuzz In reply to CrazySkye [2007-08-28 05:36:58 +0000 UTC]

Haha, wow, thanks! That's the nicest thing I've heard for a long time.

If you have a marker that's dying and not strong enough to soak the paper any more, use the next lightest color to moisten the paper and then put the dying one right on top while it's still wet. Looks exactly like you used only the dying one, but you didn't! This doubles to lighten colors a tad without going to the next lightest color, by adding more of the lighter one under and less of the darker one on top. Give it a shot, you get a feel for it!

My Yellow Ochre is pretty much dead, but I needed it for her main fur color, so I made my healthy Tulip Yellow (and sometimes warm grays) do the hard work while Yellow Ochre got the glory. Her fur looks like it's mostly Yellow Ochre when actually most of the ink is Tulip Yellow!

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CrazySkye In reply to Peachfuzz [2007-08-28 05:41:08 +0000 UTC]

wow! well that sure does sound like a nice trick, I will have to try it out! You can lighten colors if you put em on top too, but you have to use alot of ink...so I guess I wouldn't reccommend it unless totally necessary! but I've used it a couple times before!
hmm, well, Yellow ochre sure looks to be a pretty color..I might just have to grab one of those. I really have very few yellows, suprisingly.

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Peachfuzz In reply to CrazySkye [2007-08-28 05:45:40 +0000 UTC]

Yellow Ochre is a good color to have. It's a strong dark yellow that isn't orange or brown. That's hard to get. Makes a great shading color and plays nice with grays!

I've noticed that I can lighten colors by putting a lighter tone on top, but it gets splotchy and tends to bleed. Under is a little more subtle and easier to control. Though I sometimes do make a mistake and have to bleach things lighter to fix it!

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CrazySkye In reply to Peachfuzz [2007-08-28 05:49:38 +0000 UTC]

thats for sure! and the clear blender does make things splotchy and its rather uncontrolable, but I've gotten some good stuff out of it!

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Peachfuzz In reply to CrazySkye [2007-08-28 05:51:10 +0000 UTC]

I use the Colorless Blender like a bleach pen to "erase" things. That thing sucks for blending but it's a life-saver as a bleach pen!

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CrazySkye In reply to Peachfuzz [2007-08-28 06:02:28 +0000 UTC]

yeah, but it works well to lighten things too...you just kinda have to understand it before you try to work with it! I used it a couple times in works like [link] on her shirt thing!

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Peachfuzz In reply to CrazySkye [2007-08-28 06:33:59 +0000 UTC]

I color light-to-dark, so I really haven't had a need for the Colorless Blender on that basis (though it's great for lifting up shinies and dewdrops!). I use it like an eraser when I slop over lines. It lets me be crazy and messy with the background since I can bleach the character clean (I color the backdrop before the character). It has limits, of course, but it's pretty darned effective.

I've seen so many people get pissed off when they try to blend with it. Only to get splotches! You're right, you have to understand it before you try to work with it.

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CrazySkye In reply to Peachfuzz [2007-09-07 14:53:41 +0000 UTC]

yeah, first time I worked with it I was like...NOOOO! It ruined some lovely skin I was trying to blend...but that seems like so long ago...

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Eclipsis [2007-08-25 15:46:33 +0000 UTC]

I wish I could figure out how to be a marker artist.

I just cannot figure out why people do not abuse the favorites button on your works. This is so wonderful and beautiful. It clearly shows so much detail and effort.

I love your style so much.

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Peachfuzz In reply to Eclipsis [2007-08-25 18:01:24 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thanks. Mighty nice of you to say!

I'm the opposite, though. I can't figure out how the heck you people use colored pencils so well!

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Eclipsis In reply to Peachfuzz [2007-08-25 21:18:44 +0000 UTC]

The more so we should teach each other.

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WarpedOrbit [2007-08-24 01:55:30 +0000 UTC]

I like the camouflage-ness!

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donnaquinn [2007-08-23 06:24:33 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful work, one of your best ever. I love the muted yet vibrant colour scheme to bits (and pieces, and smaller bits). Also, since I've temporarily got broadband, I've been able to view it full-size. Lucky me, it looks much better bigger (don't they all?). Great stuff! I really dig all the different types of vegetation.

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Peachfuzz In reply to donnaquinn [2007-08-23 20:31:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much, Donna! The color scheme is weird since I used only three colors not counting black and gray. I went with rich dark warm yellows and rather than my usual orangey or lemoney ones without knowing how good it'd look with the brown and green!

The vegetation is inspired by real plants but I made it all up. I love those weird wiggly leaves jutting about her, they were fun!

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mirrin [2007-08-23 03:41:11 +0000 UTC]

A very pretty character. Definitely a !

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