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Fanart Friday for June 21, 2013. (see below how YOU can join in!).

This is something different I wanted to try, after adding some white highlights with pencils to a black portion of the gift I was working on for my cousin's wedding. I liked the way it looked, so I thought, what the hey, let's try a full picture! So I coloured a sheet of my bond paper with black markers, and gave it a go. As with all my fun experiments, I tried another TMNT piece, 'cause I hadn't gotten anything done for FF yet and I love drawing the turtles, hah hah. The victim was Raphael! Huzzah!

I tried an interesting angle and lineless style, and I sorta like the end result... It's been a long while since I coloured with just pencils, but it was fun digging through my two boxes of pencils trying to find the right colours I needed. I think what makes it more interesting is that the colours I chose showed up differently on the black paper than they do on white, so I got some unexpected shading / highlighting going on as well. See, initially I was only going to use my white pencil to do the whole thing, but then I decided to do "full colour". It's a little more difficult to reverse the highlights / shadows with the background being black, and only realized after about halfway through the pic that I sorta screwed up a bit on the colouring. Oh well, I got the effect I was looking for, so I suppose it's not a total loss. Just looks a little weird. This was fun to do when I needed a break working on a large 17x14 pic . It's not my best work, but I think I will try it again in the future... I miss colouring with my pencils, hah hah! Hope y'all like it anyway

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MEDIA: Markers and pencils on printer bond.
Raphael © to Nick / Viacom. Art © to Stephanie G.M. Ratté.

Description
Fanart Friday for June 21, 2013. (see below how YOU can join in!).

This is something different I wanted to try, after adding some white highlights with pencils to a black portion of the gift I was working on for my cousin's wedding. I liked the way it looked, so I thought, what the hey, let's try a full picture! So I coloured a sheet of my bond paper with black markers, and gave it a go. As with all my fun experiments, I tried another TMNT piece, 'cause I hadn't gotten anything done for FF yet and I love drawing the turtles, hah hah. The victim was Raphael! Huzzah!

I tried an interesting angle and lineless style, and I sorta like the end result... It's been a long while since I coloured with just pencils, but it was fun digging through my two boxes of pencils trying to find the right colours I needed. I think what makes it more interesting is that the colours I chose showed up differently on the black paper than they do on white, so I got some unexpected shading / highlighting going on as well. See, initially I was only going to use my white pencil to do the whole thing, but then I decided to do "full colour". It's a little more difficult to reverse the highlights / shadows with the background being black, and only realized after about halfway through the pic that I sorta screwed up a bit on the colouring. Oh well, I got the effect I was looking for, so I suppose it's not a total loss. Just looks a little weird. This was fun to do when I needed a break working on a large 17x14 pic . It's not my best work, but I think I will try it again in the future... I miss colouring with my pencils, hah hah! Hope y'all like it anyway

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MEDIA: Markers and pencils on printer bond.
Raphael © to Nick / Viacom. Art © to Stephanie G.M. Ratté.