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RolkStone — Evil is Best Shared
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yet another copy of a screenshot, but the subject matter and thoughts behind this is not the same as in the episode I drew this from.If there's one time they're bound to get along like peas in a pod, it's when they're hatching a diabolical plan or triumphing over something together.
I forced myself to use colored pencils for this, as I'm not happy with my pencil technique. Honestly, the coloring part is always the part I dread
if Bob doesn't look quite yellow, blame my scanner. I used a very light yellow for him.
Bob and Cecil Terwilliger belong to Matt Groening
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Dont rape, dont rape, dont rape....GREEEAAAT JOOOOOOB!!!
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I really like the effect with the pencils. 
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Thank you! I like how it came out, too. It's different. <3
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You're welcome. 
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totally! I try to do something new with every picture, or at least try. Gotta take risks to learn
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<3 Them planning about evil deeds proves their smae flesh <3 And the fact that Bob's laughter is bigger and his smile wider is fabulous, he's been jail and trough a lot of crap while Cecil has been more in comfortable enviroment being little snob he is, so he's not showing his maniac side as openly just yet^^
Color pencils are touch, even though they are one of the most commonly used! At first I would invest for good ones, you can have great set quite cheaply these days. It's good to choose ones that have two shades of every color, so you can mix all the rest with them. Oh, and I tend to use water-solubtle ones, I think they have better pigment in anyway, but you can use them like watercolors too, which adds the variety of possibilites you can do.
I don't know what problems you're fasing with pencils, but don't hesitate to try out few thing. What do you think are your stumbling blocks?
Ahahha, don't think I'm trying to lecture you in anyway. I'm just going little overdrive with my teaching passion now that I'm in my practical training^^
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I acutally didn't notice that, but you're right! Bob's laugh is much bigger and more hearty, and that suggests a lot of things. Cecil is definitly a snob, and sheltered and protected. He's been to prison, but had his big brother to take care of him. Just imagine the hell life was for Bob, all alone, his refined, gayish self amongst all those inmates.
I have expensive colored pencils, or at leats ones that are suppose to be good: prismacolors. lol but I guess if you dont' know how to use them, expensive toys aren't worth much.
My problems are where to put in the shadows for shading, how to blend so that I don't have ugly white patches where the color went on unevenly, how to make the shaded part blend in nicely with the rest, so that it gives a shadowed look.
hehehe you can practice teaching on me for sure! I definitly need it!
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Acctually, my fic was about Bob raping Cecil in prison and he explained it with saying that he knows how prisonlife, and it's better for Cecil to be entirely his brothers property, that anyone else's. It was really hard to write, neither of the characters were as IC I would liked, but first attempt rarely is completely succes.
Well, it takes only practise to get used to color pencils. For shading I rarely use only black, since it might give stuffy and uneven look. I usually try to use other colors for the basic shadows (like green in Kiss me kill me) and only darker it with black. But I think that what ever you do with color pencils, you shouldn't press too hard at the beginning. Crosshatching with different shades with light touch gives most of the cases better look in the end. Though it takes more time. And if the blending is problem then aquapencils might be worth try.
Oh, you're doing you art just fine! I don't want to be as teacher to you, just giving tips, you choose are they worthy or not.
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That is such a hot idea, the prison one. I would so love to read that!! You tease me! Such a twisted thing, but it makes sense. Better that Cecil belong to Bob in the truest sense, than be prey to the other inmates. I really love that idea and I want to do something with it. I don't know what, because I will probably never write a fanfic again, but maybe a very short comic or a picture or something. I dont' think that's too OOC. And yes, it was a first attempt, so it won't be perfect at first.
I love the idea of using other colors for the shadows, like green instead of blck. I"m afraid to try something I'm not used to, although I do force myself ot try something different with almost every picture.
Teach me more please! xD <33
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I know, thinking Bob and Cecil in prison makes me nuts, they are in this tiny cell with steam gathering and all <3 Too sexy really.
Haha, coloring really is just trying out different things, I just found out that green really looks good with yellow, since it's very different to shade yellow skin than peachcolor, green doesn't make them look really sick like with peach it might.
Other color that might work with yellow is purple, if you like to make really striking contrast, since purple is the opposite color or yellow. And very basics knowlegde of color theory is that shadow takes the opposite color of the light. If you think that light is for example orange, the shadow would be blue etc. That helps me sometimes if I don't know how to color something. But mainly I just do thing and try to make them look nice^^
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I'm only just getting to these old replies! gaaahh I'm so bad xD
but thanks for giving me those coloring tips, of using different colors that contrast, like purple agianst yellow. I'm nervous about it, but I will try it. I"m so used to trying for a "realistic" look that I get scared to do sonething abstract or strange, even thought I secretely wish my art were more free and abstract. It takes guts to do abstract stuff like that.
and here i never thought there was any use to color theory lol
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It's really odd for me to realize that some things as color theory or things like that will really come handy as sometimes. Though, IIve been admiring impressionims and their view of realism, it leand on heavily on color theory and still they make their pictures to be as realistic they can, in their values of course. Think about Claude Monet, his art is like very strinct in a way that it's not abstart, but still he uses all sorts of colors to give image of dusk, sunset, different kind of shadows in different light. I don't like the strictness in impressionism (like I don't like boundaries anywhere) but it's fun to combine different elements from different points of view.
Be brave, try out new thing as you have already done, you'll find out how much more there is to be done^^
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I never paid attention to color theory or anything academic like that. But any tool, no matter how useless it might seem, can have a use.
I never really liked impressionism, mostly because I thought it was pretensious as hell to create a label for a certain kind of art, such a specific style, and that makes the artists have to paint in a box. And it makes them impresionists somehow better than everyone else because they are "impressionists."
Art history and theory and all that usually annoys the shit out of me, but still, it's good to learn about all the different things that people have tried to improve your own art. I might hate anime style now, but anime was what I first learned from, so I can't be too judgemental! lol And I still keep some things from anime, like making the characters not perfectly realistic, so they can still be pretty and idealistic (almost all comics are like that, though, it's not just an anime thing, but you know waht I mean), and trying to color really well. the colors in animes are amazing, I have to admit. And they have some gorgeous effects. So there is something to be learned even from stuff you hate! xD
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It's just fun to know about art history that impressionists were the first ones to break themself out of the box, the way things were displayed for centurys, and then they made as strict and limiting new box themselves to be^^Ind in every ism, style there is the thought that we are right and other people are wrong. that's probably the essence of whole consept of making boundaries to oneself. Anyway, I like impressionism mainly because of the way they use colors and watch the world, but then again, I like to add my touch of expressionism, even surrelism and sometimes some postmodern in the mix since I haven't yet find anything that speaks to me whole. Though I'm not sure I even want that. But I do know what I don't like, I don't care for functionalism, nor newclassism.
Art history is part of history, so I'm fascinated by it, but some theories go sover my head sometimes even if I do like philospohy. I like more to learn new techiques and ways to do stuff, not necessarely the beliefsystems behind them. Maybe it's because theories often sound like religions and I'm not into being into strong belief system if they are too serious. For me art isn't really serious business anyway. it can touch serious issues sometimes, but I' hate to be like pompous about myself and doing all creat art jag jag. I think that if something is fun it's perfectly okay to do even if it's not high art.
And certainly there's mucht to learn about things you don't like, like anime. They do color very well, I've seen hufge pictures witch so much detail colored with different colored inks. And the picturei s huge and one little area you use like 50 different colors. Insane.
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