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September 6, 2008
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This piece was drawn as a card for my Grandad's 81st birthday, which was today. I ended up finishing it late during a party(!). I lost track of how much time it took but it was at least 9 or 10 hours.

This was based on two source images and coloured by eye. I used a tablet PC, I drew a sketch layer, which took an hour, coloured underneath it then removed it at about 3 hours in. All colouring was produced using the airbrush tool.

Parts of the moss at the edges are supposed to be slightly out of focus. I'm not sure how well that effect worked. I've never tried drawing out of focus before...

I'm quite pleased with this one, even though I missed my deadline and ended up finishing it in a terrible rush.
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!Sikstus Jan 26, 2010
Nice job! I realy like the colours. First i thought that it is real photo. :D
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~needlemage Sep 11, 2009
This is amazing. :)
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~jinkies36 Sep 12, 2009
Thanks, I prefer the Kingfisher I drew 3 months later [link]
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~needlemage Sep 12, 2009
Yah, comparing the two, I can definitely see the improvements you made during that period. :)
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~jinkies36 Sep 12, 2009
Yeah, it took me 6 months to get from my first inept scrapings with a tablet PC to really getting good: [link]
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~Katakana1 Feb 2, 2009
Good job.
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~Sam2103 Jan 7, 2009
its very beautiful coloring draw

gr samantha
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~jinkies36 Jan 8, 2009
Thanks :)

I've just drawn another one actually [link]
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~Sam2103 Jan 11, 2009
your welcome
I have seen that one but i like this one .

gr samantha
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~jinkies36 Jan 11, 2009
Cool, glad you liked it :)
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