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Peachfuzz — Leopard Lily
Published: 2006-06-19 22:09:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 1503; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 61
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I haven't been this proud of something in a long time.
It took me at least three hours to sketch and ink and at least six to color. I love doing leopard spots! They're so much fun! I haven't drawn a leopard in a long time. I was afraid to darken her spots with Mahogany Red (For fear of ruining it) but the second I did that she popped right off the page. I'll never do a leopard without darkened spots ever again!
I love Prismacolor markers. They're fun and easy to use, and they actually scan!
I'd say this scan is about 95% accurate. My evil demon scanner did drop some of the lightest yellows on her white parts (In person her belly and such are more of a pale cream than a screaming white). Also, the Mahogany Red (Outside frame/spot color) scanned a wee bit more purple than it is in person.I'm annoyed that her hair (Head hair, not fur) seems so flat in comparison to everything else. Hair is something I still don't feel like I'm very good with. Still, this is some of the best hair I've ever done and I look forward to improving it over time.
Enjoy!
Prismacolor markers on 8.5 by 11 inch smooth bristol.
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Comments: 109
She is adorable 
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Thank you for the comment and fav on this old thing. <3 It represented a real breakthrough for me at the time, and I'm still fond of it. Cheers!
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Cheers indeed! It's gorgeous 
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Thanks so much.
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Ooo...Ouch, I HAtE those
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Thanks! 
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This looks amazing! i can't decide which is more amazing, the spots or the lilies!
You have an exceptional eye for color and detail!
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Wow, thank you.
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Oh I just love the eyes...NICE..
NICE..!!..!!..!!..!!..!!..!!..6/10
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No Problen your Did good with your Pics...
And Now I know I need them Prismacolor markers and Crayola pencils I got ONe good Pen from the BANK and one 2-5/10 medium Pencil to work with..
CAn I use your PEn stach some day...waaa I'am yellous .. I need do get me some..
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A tiger lily! Awesome! She is really pretty, I love her vicious little smile.
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Holy cow! It's been a while since I've browsed your work, Peachfuzz, but, my goodness, you're coloring (which was already good) is gorgeous! How do you make Prismas behave so nicely?
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Aw, thanks! 
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After reading your (awesome) review at the Prisma club (!), I think I know why I've been having problems with them. Apparently, copy paper isn't good for everything...
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This is a truely exquiste piece! The colours counterbalance beautifully.
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Oh! Thank you! I got complaints about some of the colors so that's mighty nice to hear.
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Really? I thought the colours worked well. They're eyecatching and complement each other wonderfully!
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I guess the Yellow Chartreuse I used just rubbed some people wrong.
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Perhaps. I still love it though!
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I saved this one for last because it's my favorite of all the pieces you have ever done. 
Your best so far 
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Starrie, you really know how to butter a person up! XD Thanks so much for the wonderful comments. That's so encouraging.
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This is beautiful! I love the detail you put into each leopard spot! And the colour blending is very well done. About the hair, perhaps if you added in a few stray whisps, or single strands with a shimmery colour it would add more life to it?
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This is beautiful. The color harmony, the detail, the richness of the shading is awesome and I love the composition. The character's so lively and gorgeous.
I think I know what's up with the hair, you have yellow highlights on reddish hair. But they aren't placed like highlights on shining hair, they look like dyed bands of hair, as if her hair was yellow and carefully dyed into horizontal stripes red over yellow.
Try something odd. Get a doll with shiny hair that's not curly, try to find one with straight hair proportionally that long or longer. Do a pencil drawing of the doll following the hair highlights exactly, get the areas that shine shaded in where they actually do -- and look at how that falls even with frontal or overhead or indirect lighting. Move the doll around in different areas to see how that looks.
If you have a wig that isn't curly you could do the same thing with a wig.
If you have a sister willing to pose for you, use a live person instead of a doll, but I'm thinking if you take your time doing realism with a doll you won't get fidgeting and complaints.
I learned hair highlighting in Drawing the Head and Figure by Jack Hamm, if you look at the "black hair" illustration you can see a good example of bold shiny highlights on a strong color. It taught me to look for them in real subjects in my street drawing, but then also to be able to make them up in cartooning or imagination drawing -- not that I've done that many imagination-people other than the nappy-curly haired Necromancer.
I need to do some more people with hair, character drawings sometime if I can get back to doing art. It's weird but I have been getting the itch, it's more rumination though because it doesn't carry through to more than sorting pencils or puttering instead of actual drawing yet. Weird. But I'd like to.
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I knew something was wrong! I love that feeling when somebody finally puts their finger on what the problem is! 
Thanks for the help. I've never felt good about the way I highlight hair and I need to find a way to fix it. Your input really helps.
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Don't feel too bad. It took me a while to get it even though I had the Jack Hamm book for decades before I did. I first got it when I was a teenager but didn't actually get it about hair highlighting till the 80s when I was doing portraits from photos.
It can help to look at magazine photos for hair ads too. Shampoo or hair color ads, if the hair length, texture and shape is right, have great highlights because the photographer's trying to show the highlights and make the hair seem shiny. With your loose long or shoulder length cat girls' hair swirling around, the shampoo and dye ad hair models should be just right for highlight placing. Of course in anime it's actually simplified to one light area and dark areas around it, but you can see the placement of that light area easiest on hair ads.
They didn't help me much though because most of my subjects were male when I started doing portraits, and mens' short haircuts are different in their highlight patterns. I had good star photos to work from though.
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I love the beautiful warm colors in this. It's so vibrant. Really great job--the fur and her spots are awesome.
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I really appreciate the nice comment and fav.
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*faints* Waaaaaa! Soooo cute! >w< She's extremely well drawn and colored and looks so freaking adorable, I want to hug her right now 
And let us not forget the background. The background is also absolutely magnificent with such a tremendous amount of detail put into it. The tigerlilies (I think that's what they are, but I might be wrong) are ... wow, just wow. You're really amazing at drawing plantlife.
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Thanks so much for the nice comment.
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Shows how much about flowers I know...
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She's gorgeous! This is definitely one of my favorites from you!
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Thank you so much! 
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Wow, this came out great!
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Oh it's beautiful, Peachfuzz! I think her hair looks fine. :-\ I love her spots nad her ears so much! Good job!
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Thank you so much for the nice comment and the fav!
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You're welcome! 
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I think the depth of the leopard spots just fit parfectly to the whole part. I like the color touch of the leopard, lily and the very detailed shadow of the lily.
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I really like this picture! You can actually see, how much you have liked to draw the spots. I really love the colour under those. I couldn't ever draw how these are floating over the fur. I mean the different colour shapes, like the floating from yellow to red. ( excuse my englisch...)
And i really like the lilis.^^ But I think the colour of the backround doesen't match the other colours so got. But it could have been a problem with the scan, I don't know. And I think it would have looked even nicer, if you could see a hand of the Leopard girl. Her pose seems a bit unconfortable.
But all in all it is a great piece of artwork, and you can be really pround of you!!!
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Thanks a bunch.
Can you tell me specifically which background color(s) you didn't think matched well? Was it the dark red-brown, or the yellow-green? Or both?
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I meant the dark-red-brown. It is such a hard frame. And you don't use this colour too much in the Leopard girl. I think it could have been a bit brighter. Or a bit orange.
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I see.
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