[Visual] Now Karo Rushe's Dump Art Gallery

[Acolyte]

Honestly, I'd skip the inking. It ends up getting lost after coloring anyway.

[yuyu!]

Honestly, I'd skip the inking. It ends up getting lost after coloring anyway.

^ that. I've probably mentioned this before, but I think it'll really help to use darker colors for the outlines instead. :] You can create that effect with colored pencils easily if the outlines are slightly darker than the shading.

[Karo Rushe]

Honestly, I'd skip the inking. It ends up getting lost after coloring anyway.

Honestly, I'd skip the inking. It ends up getting lost after coloring anyway.

^ that. I've probably mentioned this before, but I think it'll really help to use darker colors for the outlines instead. :] You can create that effect with colored pencils easily if the outlines are slightly darker than the shading.

Ok, I'll try, but, just on the inking, well, I'm having trouble with cleaning the piece. When it comes to drawing (or sketching) I'm, not really the cleanest in it.

[spoiler=OC Mage]
Sketch

Clean/Inking

I'm hesitant to the colors I want to use on this one. Or how I want to color it. Even thou I pretty much have in mind what colors I want to use. Ugh. [/spoiler]

[yuyu!]

I like the way you drew her eyes! :]

[Karo Rushe]

Thank you, Yuyubabe.

I know it was kinda pointless since the drawing's lineart is done in ink, but, I tried your & Acolyte's suggestion, added more tones to the skin color palette, picked up the darkest color. There are three I chose;
PC901 Indigo Blue
PC908 Dark Green
PC1078 Black Cherry

Black Cherry was the one I used mostly to darken the skin/shadows.

Now used it combined with either PC 945 Sienna Brown or PC937 Tuscan Red for the Darkest Color & use for the Outlines/Lineart as you suggested it.
Also, umm, I had to take my old textbooks & Book references regarding 'Human Figure' and 'Color Theory' I used in university when I studied art. I was insecured yesterday, since I applied my knowledge of Acrylic Painting into Color pencil.

Needless to say, I'm satisfied with the results (Thou the paper of this Sketchbook is horribly bad);

[spoiler=OC Mage colored]

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Went over the ink with the darkest flesh color tone (In this case Black Cherry). I was going to color her hair grey, but decided to use Blue & Purple. (With new colors). I was, really proud when I finish it. Noticed her staff's circles look really bad, so, I painted over them with grey. Instead of using the White color pencil only, I combined with a newly acquired colourless blender pencil on some parts (Mostly her gloves & staff). Like the result so far. Still need work on making hands, those fingers, I notice look odd.

I got two others inked that I'll be working on soon.

[yuyu!]

That looks great! It definitely looks more natural and the colors work well together in a very complementary way. I'm super duper picky about color coordination, and I love the ones you used here. The outfit colors work together as a nice blend of vibrant (but not too overpowering) and neutral colors, and the hair is pretty and looks great with the outfit. The shading also looks really cool and seems to work very well with the outlines you chose.

Again, I really like the style you used for the eyes. I think the difference in this picture is that the outlines of the eyes are less thick and more refined - and it looks great and very natural!

[Karo Rushe]

Ah . . . thank you, thou. sadly the next ones Probably won't give the same effect. <sigh>

[spoiler=U-511 from KanColle][/spoiler]
I just finished this one an hour ago.

[Karo Rushe]

And with this one, I'm done with the Inked Work.
This one was colored not too long.

[spoiler=Battleship Water Demon][/spoiler]

I'm personally in love for working with Pale Skin palette. (Well, mostly almost dead-like Albino flesh color). And, It's been too long since I had colored monsters like the one on this piece.

Next ones I do, I won't bother inking them as you two suggested it.

[Karo Rushe]

Color pencil all the way ~ Remembered why I despise green.

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[Karo Rushe]

Yamato from Kantai Collection.

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I had done a sketch before, instead of working directly on the sketch as I usually do, decided to simply do it as I did in painting, I'm not good at the pasting part, so I'm uncomfortable with how the hand came. I had more ease with applying the colors thou.

[Karo Rushe]

Gonna need something better to blend backgrounds.
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[PhoenixFire]

Gonna need something better to blend backgrounds.

What media are you colouring with?

[Karo Rushe]

Gonna need something better to blend backgrounds.

What media are you colouring with?

Currently Prismacolor Pencils,

[spoiler=More KanColle]

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[Dr. Mc]

I like your shading and hair styles :]

However a lot of your drawings seem to have similar facial features. All the eyes, noses, and face shapes are almost identical o.O

[yuyu!]

I can see that too, with the exception of this one and this one. Honestly, those are my two favorites!


I think a good way to get some variety is to switch up certain features. I.e. Eyes can range by size, pupil design, or even the general shape. I drew up a quick and sloppy paint drawings of some examples. Pardon the awfulness, I was using my computer's mouse to draw these.

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I didn't even include facial shapes, but those can pretty much range from slim/round and defined/simple with the details in the other features (i.e. high/low cheekbones, flat/pointed chin, wide/slim jam, etc).[/Spoiler]

[Karo Rushe]

I like your shading and hair styles :]

However a lot of your drawings seem to have similar facial features. All the eyes, noses, and face shapes are almost identical o.O

Thank you. To tell the truth, been told that their facial expressions looks similar, actually makes me happy. repetition is where I have less confidence in. Will work on making different expressions

I can see that too, with the exception of this one and this one. Honestly, those are my two favorites!


I think a good way to get some variety is to switch up certain features. I.e. Eyes can range by size, pupil design, or even the general shape. I drew up a quick and sloppy paint drawings of some examples. Pardon the awfulness, I was using my computer's mouse to draw these.

[Spoiler]
I didn't even include facial shapes, but those can pretty much range from slim/round and defined/simple with the details in the other features (i.e. high/low cheekbones, flat/pointed chin, wide/slim jam, etc).[/Spoiler]

Glad you like them, and thank you, This will help me, no worries.

These are from last week & yesterdays:
[spoiler=Maya 3/13/15][/spoiler]
I actually tried a different expression for yesterday's piece.
[spoiler=Yesterday Episode speculation][/spoiler]

[yuyu!]

Ooh, I like the expressions! I mean, the scene makes me sad, but it looks pretty good! ;~;

[Karo Rushe]

Thank you, I was going for that. :>

This one was done yesterday, thou I couldn't scan it ti'll this morning. @_@
Had trouble doing Braid, satisfied with the result of this one.
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[Karo Rushe]

Done in a few hours ago.

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[Karo Rushe]

Been doing some coloring, and sketches, here's the last ones I've colored:

[spoiler=Prinz Eugen Nichijou Expression][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Wo-Class Aircraft Carrier][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Wo-Class vs Fubuki][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Fubuki Hit][/spoiler]
[spoiler=Wo-Class Burst into Flames][/spoiler]

Ran out of blender so, did what I could. Tried doing some flames in color pencil following some tutorial in youtube, thou, I lost it halfway, And everytime I did the Pale girl (Wo-class) I kept forgetting the colors I used to make her greys. I tried yuyu's suggestion on the expressions, giving different sets of eyes & noses on them, and the face's shape. (Fubuki having shorter & rounder face, Wo's been less round and more ermm, longer?)

[yuyu!]

I can definitely tell the difference in faces! :-) 'Looks good!

I don't know if you mentioned this already or not, but what are you using to color these (before the colored pencils)?

[Karo Rushe]

I can definitely tell the difference in faces! :-) 'Looks good!

I don't know if you mentioned this already or not, but what are you using to color these (before the colored pencils)?

I don't understand well the question, I do the lineart and finish cleaning the graphite, then I go straight to coloring. Hmm, a classmate of mines suggested me to go from the darkest color to the lightest when I was painting with him a year ago, I used his suggestions for color pencils, going from the shadow and darkest colors to the lightest colors.

The color pencils I use, are Prismacolors. And for lineart some Pigma Micron Pens 03-005, to later pass another layer of Color pencil on top of the ink with a Black Color Pencil usually.

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Here's another one I did last night, took me five hours to do, (mostly due to tiredness) couldn't think of a background color for this one:

Learned Peroxide can be used to clean ink, also, if you rub too hard, the paper will weaken and tear. <sigh>

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[yuyu!]

Oh, OK. For some reason, I thought you used something other than colored pencils, too. But now that you say they're prismacolors, I can see it. :-)

[Karo Rushe]

I think it's the words Blenders that I used? Colorless Pencil Colors used to blend. 


I seem to be in a really good mood to draw and color, I've been drawing & then inmediatelly coloring it at the very moment these days, here's the newest one: It took me three hours. At first I was terrified I had gotten the wrong hair color, but now, I realize I got that Blue-Grey color I always wanted. The violet and colors have become my darkening colors lately.

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[yuyu!]

I think it's the words Blenders that I used? Colorless Pencil Colors used to blend.
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I seem to be in a really good mood to draw and color, I've been drawing & then inmediatelly coloring it at the very moment these days.

Ohh, right on! I don't know why I didn't think of that, I use a colorless pencil blender too. o.o I'm also in the mood for drawing and coloring a lot lately, but for some reason I never want to use colored pencils anymore. I always spend way too much time with them and have to go back over and blend everything, and then my hand hurts. I think my art class is exhausting my patience with them. Instead, I've been painting everything (probably because it feels quicker, but it's also way more messy and you have to be extra careful).