my brain works funny
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rivendellroseSometimes I think I draw purely so that I pay full attention to details on things. :P
How long did I spend staring at pictures and video of Nuala, when I was working on designing my version of her costume, or figuring out her makeup... without realizing until I got it into my head to draw her that, hey, they really did have dark mascara on her? *Headdesk*
And of course, being the attention whore that I am (and apparently not needing sleep, as I'm wide awake and now want nothing more than to play with this image in Photoshop...), here's the drawing that brought about this fascinating (albeit 1-year-delayed...) revelation in my head:
Click the thumbnail for a bigger version. The pencil looks very light in the photograph (one of these days I will buy a scanner so that I can stop doing this crappy "photograph the drawing to get it into the computer" business), but I'm hoping that I'll be able to fix that in Photoshop, with a little bit of work... not to mention do coloring. I'm terrified of coloring on paper when I've done a lot of delicate shading and so on in pencil, because especially with something/one as light and smoothly shaded as Nuala, it's reeeeeally hard for the colors not to get muddy and all wrong and the shading to be blocky. Bless Photoshop - it means I can save all my layers, go back if I screw up, and not have to worry about ruining the original. ♥
How long did I spend staring at pictures and video of Nuala, when I was working on designing my version of her costume, or figuring out her makeup... without realizing until I got it into my head to draw her that, hey, they really did have dark mascara on her? *Headdesk*
And of course, being the attention whore that I am (and apparently not needing sleep, as I'm wide awake and now want nothing more than to play with this image in Photoshop...), here's the drawing that brought about this fascinating (albeit 1-year-delayed...) revelation in my head:
Click the thumbnail for a bigger version. The pencil looks very light in the photograph (one of these days I will buy a scanner so that I can stop doing this crappy "photograph the drawing to get it into the computer" business), but I'm hoping that I'll be able to fix that in Photoshop, with a little bit of work... not to mention do coloring. I'm terrified of coloring on paper when I've done a lot of delicate shading and so on in pencil, because especially with something/one as light and smoothly shaded as Nuala, it's reeeeeally hard for the colors not to get muddy and all wrong and the shading to be blocky. Bless Photoshop - it means I can save all my layers, go back if I screw up, and not have to worry about ruining the original. ♥
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Date: 2009-07-04 08:07 am (UTC)I haven't done any sketching in ages. This makes me think I should start up again.
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:27 pm (UTC)You should - I don't think I've ever seen any of your drawings! I hardly ever do it anymore, either - last night I was just so out of it from packing that I thought if I looked at one more box I'd be ill, so I settled down with my sketchpad and... stayed up to late. :P But it was fun.
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Date: 2009-07-04 09:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 04:28 pm (UTC)..Oh, the Mal-dancing. Dancing Mal is ♥
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Date: 2009-07-04 10:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 04:31 pm (UTC)(And I totally had one of those petrified moments on this one - for some reason I always end up doing the right side of faces first, and then I'm staring at this blank hole where the left eye should be, thinking "well, everything else works... but if I screw this up it's going to be hell trying to erase without smudging anything." Someday I really will learn to work from the left, since I'm right-handed...)