wow!looks awesome

Very nice! He seems an intriguing fellow. Any chance of a link to his story?

You have quite a mastery of color! The many blues blend perfectly.

Fine work!

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"I am the one who spouts lies, I am the one who never sleeps, I am the one that will steal your soul."

He is an intriguing fellow indeed! His story is in the coming...there's no link to it, I'm afraid.

(*blushes) and thanks for the compliment. It was fun to do.

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How goes the world?
--The world goes not well...but the Kingdom comes!

Thanks so much! I had fun experimenting with how exactly to make someone dressed in black and in a shadow at night...visible. La!

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How goes the world?
--The world goes not well...but the Kingdom comes!

I like the texture in the background. I don't know if that's just from the type of paper you used or what, but I still like it.

It worked out better than I'd intended. It's this rather nifty art paper that comes in all sorts of colors--great for colored pencils. You can get really good hilights really quickly with white or light pencils.

Thanks!

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How goes the world?
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Oh cool, the closest I could think of was watercolor paper.

Scanners :[ that is why I gave up on trying to use pencils. I could never get it to scan right. Still looks great though.. only thing that bothers me is, I can't figure out where the light source is. I can see all the folds in his clothing, you have a sort of diffuse light hitting him everywhere, but if the room is dark and the light is from the starry sky behind then he ought to be mostly in blackness with highlights around the edges... errr, did I make any sense?

Oh, I definitely agree. I was mumbling quite a bit while doing it...something about how dark characters wearing all black should not go skulking about in the dead of night and expect portraits to be drawn of them....

My reasoning was that the star/moonlight would have reflected back onto him from the surfaces in the room. Since it was somewhat of a character portrait, I decided to ignore physics slightly and make him more visible than he should be (YEEargh!). And then the scanner ate it. Behhhhhhhhh. I wish I could re-draw it.

Thanks so much for your comment! I really value people's input and suggestions. Have a loverly day!

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How goes the world?
--The world goes not well...but the Kingdom comes!