Art type stuff

[pasithea]

This isn't too exciting but I thought I'd put up a page or two out of my sketchbook. I've still been working on doing more real-world coloring (mostly colored pencil)

Celtic Vixen by ~dv-girl on deviantART
I feel this is pretty bland. The patterns are interesting but the head is strangely small for the body and it's otherwise pretty uninteresting.

This piece (link to prevent double-image spam for people who read both journals), I did a month or so ago to go with the story of Chaos for my dvnt_spirit account at http://dvnt-spirit.livejournal.com/512.html I actually started doing this one in Illustrator but then did a colored pencil version of it and ended up liking it really well so I thought I'd wait and upload both of them at the same time but then I lost interest in the Illustrator version.

Comments

[neurocat.livejournal.com]

There is also the interesting effect caused by the way the eye processes color from an LCD screen. On my laptop, the picture looks truly three-dimentional, with the vixen standing out in front of the background. An unintended effect (I imagine), but it does draw the eye.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

No. Actually that was the only good thing about the picture. What you're seeing is a combination of two things. The warm/cool contrast of the character and background colors. Character's colors are extremely warm and bright, the background is cool and dark. Also, due to the way I colored the background, it's slightly out of focus so like in a movie. You can see all the texture and detail in the character but the background is smooth and slightly blurred. (I did this by rubbing turpentine into the background)

It's a thing I picked up from some other artwork I was looking at and decided I wanted to try playing with. Still. Not a very good piece but I'm happy at least one part worked. :)