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Published: 2004-04-09 21:11:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 535; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 126
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When I reached my 500th hit, both Pikatekat and the-anime-dude got screencaps of same - but Michael forgot to tell me immediatey... so I only got the reference picture for his request a week or so back, and only got round to drawing her last night - she's a Japanese singer, I think? Done in karisma pencils, took about 4 to 5 hours I think. You do not want to know how many layers of colour it took to do that skin... suffice to say, it was well over 30 or 40.I'm pretty chuffed with this - it's a hard picture to draw because of the angle, and I hate doing straight on noses - but this one came out well for me.
Edit: Just noticed that the eyes look slightly off, the screen left one is a little larger than it should be - however, it doesn't look so bad in full view. Nor for that matter does it look so bad in real life... darn scanner!
2nd Edit! Michael has just told me that her name is Utada Hikaru - and I wanted to make a note of that here for anyone interested...
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Hey Shedara.
I'm really enjoying this one.
I actually think the slightly large eye is brilliant!
Gives it that slightly skewed impression and draws the viewer in more, becuase of the ever so slight uneasiness it causes.
The lips are also very sensual, as if you could almost feel them.
Really, really strong piece.
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Thank you! I was looking at this just the other day actually, and remembering drawing it. I'm still not happy about the nose though. It's somethin I must get back into doing, especially as now I have a much wider range of colours.
Yes, I get what you mean about the uneasiness - I don't think I'd have been able to see it just after finishing the piece, because it would have been too close in my mind - but now...
And the lips were always my favourite bit of this piece...
Thanks for your thoughts and for the
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... i like the lips and eyes, very good.
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Heh I added this to my Fav's becuase she looks like y Girlfriend, but on closer look, it is avery good piece of art, Well done
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LOL!!! 
Thank you so much! I noticed when I was looking at your page that it appears to be the only picture on your faves - so I feel very highly honoured indeed!!!
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Gotta love the expression and those huge eyes... I think you've managed a very difficult thing here - to show big eyes, round with surprise or wonder, without losing their Asian shapes. And the bigger one isn't that striking, you notice it only after a while, even when you're looking at the smaller view.
Yeah, the nose would need a little bit of reworking - the part between the eyes, on the level with them, is a little too thin, and the middle of the nose on the screen left is a little too wide. The rest of the nose is just fine.
I like the shading a lot, the boldness of colouring on the face, as I'm myself am always very shy when colouring faces. Your combination of hues works very well here. All in all, I like this pic a lot.
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Thank you for putting so much thought into that comment! I very much appreciate it! For interests sake, that is the first time I have drawn an Asian face.. everything about the picture was completely new for me. Thanks too, for the reassurance on the eyes - I get paranoid...
The nose was weird to do - apart from the angle, something went rather strange with the pencils (I am not blaming my tools!! 
Have you tried Karisma/Prismacolor pencils? Because I'm not normally so outsgoing when i shade skin tones either, I honestly blame the pencils for this sudden diversion from my normal hues... (not that it's a negative blame though!)
Thanks again, so much!
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Well, I hardly ever draw with coloured pencils at all; if I do coloured works, it's usually watercolours. And if I do use coloured pencils, I don't actually have a very impressive set of tools - it's only six pencils in six colours... by Koh-i-Noor... Never even seen Karismas or Prismas
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Really? Far be it from me to say, but keep an eye out for them - I've used a mix of cheap and expensive colouring pencils for years, from cheapo 10pence ones to derwent and conte, and to be honest, none of them have a patch on Karismas (they're the british/european from of prismacolors, I believe.)
But the name Koh-i-noor means nothing to me, I'm afraid.
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I will keep an eye out for them, thanx
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ahhh, that sounds vaguely like karisma - although I don't feel tat they're ata ll greasy compared to, say, derwent.
Anyways...
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hey! it's Utada!
did you know that i am very great friends
with Utada's best friend? i've seen TONS of
photos of Utada from a baby thru her teens till now.
my friend is her childhood friend from Tokyo.
Utada went to ASIJ, and that's where RIZE's Jesse also went...
another childhood friend of mine, and also
a friend of mine whom I've actually met and hung out with.
anyways... yeah. just thought i'd share that info.
i can get this girl's Tel # and address easily, but i won't.
haha
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sweet.
to be honest, I know less than nothing about her - it was only a request! anyhoo, thanks for the comment...
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I knew it was Utada Hikaru right away, my older brother has the CD with that pic. Good job! Utada Hikaru is sort of like the Japanese Britney Spears, or so people say. Anyway I like her music
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Eeeek! (I'm *not* a fan of Britney or her ilk of music... Much more a rock/alternative person.) Although the idea of a clip of the stones is interesting... Was it you I told the Paul Simon/My Gran story to? The same club that she ran, the stones used to come to it before they were world renowned... she said "they were very nice boys..."
Thanks!
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No worries, she isn't like britney spears. (i rly, rly, don't like briney spears music) She's popular that way - but still not THAT poular, getting there though. I would say she is more, I don't know -her music is kind of R and B - she has her own unique style though, you'd have to hear it, hehe.
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LOL!!!
I'm not an RnB person either - celtic, folk, grrl music, alternatice rock, hard rock...
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Yeah! No worries - I am mostly into rock, some metal, jazz some celtic - I like stuff like U2, evanecence, pink floyd, paul gilbert, racer x, enya and various other stuff.
Theres a really good Japnese Artists called Keiko Matsui who is just awesome! You'd probably like her stuff - her cd's are a bit more than norm, 'cause they gotta be importaed - but their worth it!
It's only Japanese RnB I like - just 'cause it's Japanese. 
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I didn't register as a business. Found registration simple enough, just since then haven't really had time to actually set things up...
I get you on being busy - likewise, exams nearing. The thing with ebay, is don't you ahev to pay for every thing you put up? I don't really want to do that. You told me bout the bike thing before...
Sounds like we have quite familiar tastes in music then...
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*LOL* I like Britney, but I also like rock... hip hop... rap... classical, oldies, JPop etc. I think that's one of the reasons I get a lot of range in my art styles - I have a lot of range in my tastes
Currently I'm enjoying JC Chasez's new CD.. and "Long Road" by Nickelback.
Yup it was me your told the Paul Simon story to
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Ohh that's good - I have the memory of a fish (which iis becoming my new quote for my DA page...) and so I never remember who I've told what!
Not really into hip hop or rap (c'ept for the odd bit of Eminem...) but I get you on the big range in music creating awide range in art...
Nickleback are good... Don't think I really know JC Chasez...sounds like a rap artist though?
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I like Eminem
JC Chasez used to be in N'Sync, but went Solo... his CD is a mix of Dance, Rock and... well... a bunch of other stuff. I actually really like it... though it's rather... *ahem* let's just say... N'Syncs stuff was pretty G or PG rated... A lot of this stuff is R rated
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Can't be as weird as my family...
eeeek... N'Sync is a name that has me running for the hills even faster than Britney!
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It's cool, you seem kind of Anti-Pop/dance
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I'm not *that* anti pop or dance, especially compared to the girls I live with, but I am rather anti Cheese... 
*random rant oover*
Ohh. and if you don't play 80s music, can I play the Nolans?
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Oh yeah, ehm forgot to mention, your right, it's Utada Hikaru, a Japanese singer.
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I'm sorry, I kinda forgot about sending the screen shot - I remembered eventually though...*ahem.
Thank you! This looks great! <
Beautiful art - I love it! Thanks again! Huge 
PS, I didn't even notice the eyes, it isn't really noticable, it looks great!
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Did you really print it off?? *very chuffed* Thanks so much for the fave... This is in many ways one of my new favourites - the scanner really did mutilate it, because it looks a LOT better in real life (modest, me?)... Thanks also for the lovely compliments - it means a lot! 
and I'll make a note of her name, because I may think of selling this piece one day...
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I sure did.
No problem, and thank you!!
Seeling = good, nice
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Well, as you can see re the selling, I've now got a prints account
Thanks for giving me such an interesting piece to do!
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Nice!
Thank you again, for doing the piece - no problem too, lol.
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Ahh, I did. I have actually signed up now though - devart take 50% over the base price, which is pretty high, yes, but it could be a lot worse, and I wanted to give a little more back, because I love this site. There are other reasons, of course.
As for elsewhere, I might start on Ebay at some point - I'm debating doing that when I have a little more time. I didn't find anwywhere else that I would fit in and that would have me for a decent price...
Ta muchly!
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appologies, I must have missd this msg. That makes sense I suppose, and you do get nice advertising from 'em.
My uncle phoned the other day,a nd started asking me to go down and start an e-bay business with him, cool suggestion, bt he lives near manchester, and I kinda like Scotland.
E-bay is very popular though, and it's easy to sell stuff from there - it would be a good move probs. You could even try cafe press and see if you can get decent prices from them - I know a few people that seel form there.
No problem, and thanks again!
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Mmm, I periodically consider ebay. Am getting a cafe press shop - will let you know as and when. Also reckoning on when I make prints of my local work, buying prints and selling them from the local gallery...
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I can't remember if I replied to this - sorry - so I'll reply again just in case.
I think I am going to get a cafe press shop soon - you'll have to let me know how you get on - some of the terms and conditions and how it is set up seem a bit strange to me. It makes sense, just wondered how you set it up - whether you have to kind of register a business or not, and what happens if when sales tax needs to be incurred - unless all that is cancelled out because it's an American company. Anyway... it was brother that started asking me that - so just moan at him, lol.
Ebay is always goo d- there will always be someone there who'll love your pics - stick reserve on your paintings - for like, minimum selling price, and you'll b sorted - just the let the bids go! Could make quite a bit that way - I was thinking about setting up an e-bay business at somepoint maybe - my Uncle wanted to start selling bikes on e-bay, should be pretty cool. He asked me to set up with him, but He lives near Manchester, and I kinda like Scotland, so I am not su re what to do. Thats for the future anyway I suppose.
And you can't bat local galleries.
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Oce again I love the lips. You really have a knack for them. I've just noticed the hair too, it looks so fine and delicately done.
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awww Thanks hun! The hair was fun to do - because it's done on a black background, I used a base of indigo, and the highlighted the final layers of black with pale green and blue...
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