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This evolved from sort of... well, it's definitely got it's own theme. The color scheme was originally intended to be in line with the old Prussian flag but that's pretty much just black and white. I spruced it up a bit (perhaps to it's detriment) with the red (from the battle flag) and more blue and gold (inspired by the Pour le Merite medal of the era).

I'm aware of the super long legs and anatomy errors but overall I'm satisfied with how this turned out. She's really tall and has sort of short arms.

This is the first time in a long while I have completely penciled, inked, erased then fully colored (via prismacolor and copic markers) a drawing in completion. Usually I just color my pencil drawings but it creates issues with the graphite rubbing off on the markers and creating permanent smudges on lighter colored areas - notably any kind of skin tone.

This little project has strengthened my resolve to finally switch over to a mostly digital medium. This took forever and I realized a lot of time was spent fully drawing the whole thing in pencil (with a lot of erasing), inking, re-erasing, re-inking (to get cleaner lines with Zig and Copic fine point liner marker/pen things) then coloring it in. Using marker is labor intensive (I test the colors on scrap paper to make sure I'm layering them correctly) and extremely unforgiving if major errors are made.

That being said I'm still in love with my copics - they've been serving me pretty well for more than a decade and I love working with a traditional, physical media.

Description
This evolved from sort of... well, it's definitely got it's own theme. The color scheme was originally intended to be in line with the old Prussian flag but that's pretty much just black and white. I spruced it up a bit (perhaps to it's detriment) with the red (from the battle flag) and more blue and gold (inspired by the Pour le Merite medal of the era).

I'm aware of the super long legs and anatomy errors but overall I'm satisfied with how this turned out. She's really tall and has sort of short arms.

This is the first time in a long while I have completely penciled, inked, erased then fully colored (via prismacolor and copic markers) a drawing in completion. Usually I just color my pencil drawings but it creates issues with the graphite rubbing off on the markers and creating permanent smudges on lighter colored areas - notably any kind of skin tone.

This little project has strengthened my resolve to finally switch over to a mostly digital medium. This took forever and I realized a lot of time was spent fully drawing the whole thing in pencil (with a lot of erasing), inking, re-erasing, re-inking (to get cleaner lines with Zig and Copic fine point liner marker/pen things) then coloring it in. Using marker is labor intensive (I test the colors on scrap paper to make sure I'm layering them correctly) and extremely unforgiving if major errors are made.

That being said I'm still in love with my copics - they've been serving me pretty well for more than a decade and I love working with a traditional, physical media.