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rowynI didn't do much art this vacation. Usually I do a lot of drawing when I'm with John, because he likes to draw, but this trip we ended up doing tons of other stuff and not a lot of drawing.
However, when I got home I decided to work on this picture. I did the pencil sketch several months ago in my sketchbook that's supposed to be for full-color drawings. I wasn't happy with the sketch (I did a thumbnail sketch of him first that I like much better, which is always frustrating). Usually I don't spend time coloring sketches unless I love them, but for whatever reason I went ahead and colored this one. On the bright side, I do like it better in color, even if I did a pretty crappy job on the shoreline. The background is based on the shoreline of a beach![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shaterri took us to while we were in Washington. So it's sort of a trip picture in that respect.
The character is Easy,koogrr's Naga from jordangreywolf's tabletop Warcraft RPG.
However, when I got home I decided to work on this picture. I did the pencil sketch several months ago in my sketchbook that's supposed to be for full-color drawings. I wasn't happy with the sketch (I did a thumbnail sketch of him first that I like much better, which is always frustrating). Usually I don't spend time coloring sketches unless I love them, but for whatever reason I went ahead and colored this one. On the bright side, I do like it better in color, even if I did a pretty crappy job on the shoreline. The background is based on the shoreline of a beach
shaterri took us to while we were in Washington. So it's sort of a trip picture in that respect. The character is Easy,
koogrr's Naga from jordangreywolf's tabletop Warcraft RPG.
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Date: 2006-08-30 03:58 am (UTC)The one problem that kind of jumps out at me is the lack of "contact" between the Naga and the beach. There's no shadow at the junction between Naga and pebbles/sand. The result is that it kind of looks out of place -- almost like it was pasted on top of an unrelated picture.
Other than that it hangs together quite nicely.
You might try printing it out in color, and then taking dark colored pencils and experimenting with shadows to figure out what looks best before taking the plunge and laying a shadow on the original. I do that kind of thing a lot these days.
--Howard