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majik_6 · 09-08-2006, 11:55 PM

Sugahbritches: Hopefully I'll have more works to post by the end of the weekend.

doodlebird: I've got a few older robot designs incorporating eyeballs, but most are pretty simple sketches (that I can't find right now). I'll start working on something soon...probably something pretty out there. Thanks for the props, especially on the winged eyeball. I was pretty satisfied with the crown, it has really detailed shading in person (each little stone has multiple facets with pretty intricate shading).

clavus: Thanks! I'm glad to hear that there has been a decent amount of progress with my work. As for the pencils, I tend to lay in very solid layers of color, sometimes using tiny, overlapping ovals/circles which is similar to the technique a lot of tattooists use with their machine for solid color. It looks GREAT but I don't do it much anymore, since it's absolute hell on my wrists. Any more I just use a combination of looser circles and lines that taper and fade in the direction of the shading. Overlapping different colors, using a white pencil to blend, or even using a colorless blender can help to really lay in thick, solid colors with the Prismacolors since they're oil based. I take a LOT of time in shading with the pencils, and can sometimes use up to a 1/3 of a pencil or more on one drawing (for example, I did a tiger lily recently using solid colors, no black and no outlines and went almost entirely through 3-4 pencils of varying pinks, oranges, and yellows). The lily took at least 2-3 hours of just shading and coloring (I sketched it first in graphite on sketch paper, then layed tracing paper over that, which I colored on) to get a really solid outcome without any blank spaces. It's probably about 6" square.

I will say, though, there are a few artists I look up to that can get even more solid color and seemless gradients with Prismacolors. For example, this is a work by an artist I really admire who gets a look similar to oil paints or even airbrushing with Prismacolors: http://sketchkult.com/phpBB/viewtopi...88bdd7ccfee592

Thanks again for the compliments.

09-08-2006, 11:55 PM	#27 (permalink)
majik_6 narcissist Location: looking in a mirror	Sugahbritches: Hopefully I'll have more works to post by the end of the weekend. doodlebird: I've got a few older robot designs incorporating eyeballs, but most are pretty simple sketches (that I can't find right now). I'll start working on something soon...probably something pretty out there. Thanks for the props, especially on the winged eyeball. I was pretty satisfied with the crown, it has really detailed shading in person (each little stone has multiple facets with pretty intricate shading). clavus: Thanks! I'm glad to hear that there has been a decent amount of progress with my work. As for the pencils, I tend to lay in very solid layers of color, sometimes using tiny, overlapping ovals/circles which is similar to the technique a lot of tattooists use with their machine for solid color. It looks GREAT but I don't do it much anymore, since it's absolute hell on my wrists. Any more I just use a combination of looser circles and lines that taper and fade in the direction of the shading. Overlapping different colors, using a white pencil to blend, or even using a colorless blender can help to really lay in thick, solid colors with the Prismacolors since they're oil based. I take a LOT of time in shading with the pencils, and can sometimes use up to a 1/3 of a pencil or more on one drawing (for example, I did a tiger lily recently using solid colors, no black and no outlines and went almost entirely through 3-4 pencils of varying pinks, oranges, and yellows). The lily took at least 2-3 hours of just shading and coloring (I sketched it first in graphite on sketch paper, then layed tracing paper over that, which I colored on) to get a really solid outcome without any blank spaces. It's probably about 6" square. I will say, though, there are a few artists I look up to that can get even more solid color and seemless gradients with Prismacolors. For example, this is a work by an artist I really admire who gets a look similar to oil paints or even airbrushing with Prismacolors: http://sketchkult.com/phpBB/viewtopi...88bdd7ccfee592 Thanks again for the compliments. __________________ it's all about self-indulgence