hm....

[Leffy]

so i've unearthed a few sheafs of notebook paper with fairies on them. and i wanted to draw them. but..... you can't see the images much at all. so what did Leffy do? colored the back of the image with grey crayon as thick as she could, then traced over what definate lines she could determine, making the image transfer to her drawing pad. yay! it transferred!! it... was missing something. i abandoned the original, and started playing with my new transfer, defining the definate lines and adding detail i felt was a necessity....... then going almost ocd kinda anal retentive with shading, and in the end i spent 5 hours i could've would've and should've been sleeping, "fixing" my transfer.

as i said, she's not mine. but i'm kinda proud of the details i made and did. so how'd i do?
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/leffykins/avatars/oak-fairy.jpg

[TNT]

:eek::drool: DAMMIT! Everyone I know is an awesome artist.
That drawing rocks... I cant even IMAGINE drawings that good.

[kitty!]

the eyes look weird, but I really like the rest of it!

[Crazeyal]

Taking something and making it your own is art in and of itself.


It's GORGEOUS.

[Leffy]

lol like i said she was originally drawn by someone else better then me (and who gets paid for it) plus i cheated. its the detail work i did. the darkest lines are for the most part the ones i patched over, or are one i added and then got annoyed as hell they didn't match up with the original dark lines.

[sableagle]

It is wonderful, and I am very impressed. I think what's happened with the eyes is that her right eye has shrunk. It should reach all the way to the edge of her face at that angle, I think. The upper lid could be extended with a couple of extra lashes, and the lower need to be a longer curve.

I never thought of trying that crayon thing. Any sketch I've scanned has been inked first just to make it show up. Sketch ... ink ... scan ... contrast and brightness to black and white ... fade to pale grey and white ... print ... paint ... scan ... adjust colours ... a nice quick one-afternoon job.

[Leffy]

the crayon method allows for more stress releif. you get to obliterate a crayon and get messy :D

[domino]

I really like the details you gave to it! I think you didi an awesome job on the shading!

and i think her eyes give her an other-worldly feel and a sense of innocense. A+

[meghasissues]

i like the shading alot. i still can't shade right my teachers hate me for that

looks like an amy brown notebook

[DarkPirateShea]

Holy crap! I just realized why that picture looks so familiar, lol. I have a poster version of it literally right in front of me. (well, it's sort of up from where I am... closer to the ceiling, that's why i didn't see it right away).
Hehe. :D

But yeah, still, I know how much they fade those pictures on the notebook paper so I'd say that's a pretty good job on the shading.

[Plunder Down-Under]

<3

[sableagle]

Second opinion on the eyes: her right eye (on the left) has a thicker, bolder line on the side nearer her nose, which makes it seem to be looking further out than the position of the pupil would suggest alone. With a careful shift of the line emphasis as well as the nudge on the lower eyelid line, you'd get it much more "forward". Mushed crayon understands not why or where it is mushed, only that it is mushed onto paper. The silver foil blocks orange and black wax equally. Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Leffy]

lol yeah i'm fairly sure its amy brown's. dunno. i've got 7 different designs all lumped into a binder. thinking about doing this again. only first actually doing the sleep thing.