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Little Lady by ~TheChibiPhoenix:iconTheChibiPhoenix:

Categories Manga/Anime > Traditional Media > Drawings

©2007-2009 ~TheChibiPhoenix
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I know it's quite long, but I'd really appreciate it ^^;

Why I did this picture:
Well, yesterday was my cousin's birthday, so we went over to his house to eat some tamales. I knew we would be there a while, and that there would be almost nothing to do, so I took some paper, my inking pen (which I only recently bought, and had remained nearly untouched until yesterday XD) and my set of brand new prismacolors. And just for the heck of it, I took my "How to draw manga, Kimonos and Gowns". I saw a hairstyle I liked in there, so I thought I'd try it with Shan, since she's the character that wears more traditional clothes. Of course, her hair is much longer than the girl in the reference picture, so her curls are much longer and have more volume X3

She looks quite different with her bangs swept to the side like that XD

The Title:
Little Lady, because that's exactly what she is XD
She's very manner-oriented, if you know what I mean; very polite little person X3 And very shy and childlike XD She's a little lady! *shot*

*revives*
My lack of colored pencil skills:I haven't colored a picture with colored pencils since.... er... do you remember those children's coloring books from when you were little? Yeah... I haven't really colored since then, unless you count the maps we have to color for the geography portion of my history classes o.e So obviously, I really need to practice.

My Complaints:
The picture looks semi-decent in real life, but my scanner completely kills it XP I actually had to darken the hair in photoshop. The skin and clothes I didn't really care about, since the colors were actually pretty random, and I didn't mind her face staying light. But her hair hair being light was NOT okay >.<

Also: it looks kinda blurry for some reason o.e

Tools:
0.5 Staedtler pigment liner
Prismacolor colored pencils

Shan and Artwork © Maria E. Sandoval (=TheChibiPhoenix)

Comments


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~Kirielson Sep 23, 2007, 8:49:42 AM
That looks awesome. There needs to be a bow down emotion because I'd be abusing it right about now.
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~BlOoDyRoSeGuN Sep 23, 2007, 8:50:12 AM
Wow this is amazing!!! that hair must have been such a pain to color! D:

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^DCZed Sep 23, 2007, 8:59:12 AM
That's gorgeous! And yeah, scanners always like to muder my pencil pictures :( Ah well, your pic is beautiful anyway :)

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~Punk-Midgie Sep 23, 2007, 9:32:56 AM
Looks good!;)

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~Burossamu-Chan Sep 23, 2007, 10:19:48 AM
Totally faving. Some else sees what's wrong with Prismacolors! Did you get the 12 set, or the cool grays set? Those don't look like they come from the 12 I have.

*insert angry question here* AGHHHHHH! How hard did you press on your skin?! Everytime I scan mine, they die. Did you use Peach or Light Peach for it?

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~Mits-the-Neko-Fox Sep 23, 2007, 11:43:19 AM
Pretty woman....>.> walking down the street....<.< pretty woman....say hallo to everyone you meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.... ._. PRETTY WOMAN~!!! XD
LAWLz dont ask >.>

Awsome....:D cept i like she would look much pretteir without the eyepatch and with a little glossy look on her lips :3
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~TheChibiPhoenix Sep 23, 2007, 12:05:34 PM
I had the 12 set, but I bought the 48 set last week X3

Let's see: I used Light peach as the base color, pressing as hard as I could without breaking the tip (XD). Then I shaded in using peach, and after that I used Pale Vermilion (which just seems like a really fancy way of saying light orange to me) to make her skin stand out more. You can't see it very well, though.. It looks more like brownish.. I also put some Blush Pink on her cheek, right underneath her eye, but you can't really see that either ;_;

Gah.. the colors are so much more vibrant in real life. Maybe if I play around with photoshop I can bring the colors out a bit more? >.<

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~TheChibiPhoenix Sep 23, 2007, 12:06:38 PM
Thank you very much ^^

I've seen people scan pictures at a very high quality. I should ask them what kind of scanners they have so I can get me one. My current one is dying on me o.e

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~TheChibiPhoenix Sep 23, 2007, 12:08:17 PM
Aw, there's no need for that :heart: :blushes:

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~TheChibiPhoenix Sep 23, 2007, 12:09:12 PM
It was XD, but I'm happy with the way it came out. The problem is, to get it to look right, I had to keep sharpening the colored pencils. Hair is so..fine >.<

Thank you for commenting ^^

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