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Published: 2011-03-14 00:21:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 1152; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 31
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Finally finished my new piece of fanart of one of my very favourite X-Men characters, the gorgeous, sexy and incredibly dangerous X-23, aka Laura Kinney, the cloned "daughter" of Wolverine himself.
This is probably my most faithful capture of her to date, but I've still given it my own little spin, and my own classic little touches. 
This is one I'm particularly pleased with in the end result, it's certainly one of the very best from my new batch, and now I've got it finished I don't think there's ANYTHING here I think I coulda done better. The colours have turned out beautifully, and I'm most happy with all the work I put into making her super shiny costume look really slick. Also I think I've FINALLY come up with the PERFECT way for me to colour black hair ...
inks created with Pilot Hi-tecpoints on Bristol Board, digital colours in Gimp 2.6 with my Wacom Bamboo Pen. You can also find my original pencils here: [link] and the inked lineart/flat colours here: [link] X-23/Laura Kinney is property of Marvel.
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Very nice. She looks absolutely BA. I like the way you colored her hair. Coloring hair is a bit of a problem for me.
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Well up until this one I'd kind of been dissatisfied with black hair in my artwork, so this one was where I suddenly cracked a new look, and I was right happy with it.
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She is a pretty awesome character, and you captured her beautifully here. She's in the new Capcom vs Marvel game. Hubby loves playing with her. At the end if you use her to beat Galactus her encounter with Wolverine is hilarious. It seems she leaves the boss lying in Wolverine's yard, and he walks out in a towel brushing his teeth. I nearly died laughing.
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Yeah, I heard that. 
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Haha, I can't remember what he said, but I do recall it making me snicker.
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I should do a team-up pic one of these days ...
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I use GIMP 2.6 and i can't color as wounderful as this. Do you have any tips on how to color?
Lovely X-23 here.
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Well I'm entirely self-taught with this stuff so my technique's probably TOTALLY backwards 
... on the flats, I use the colour selection tool to select the black lines, then invert and fill in by hand with my tablet/pen, just like I used to with markers back when I did trad art. Then I tighten up the lineart on a seperate file, copy it and then paste it over the flats. After that I use the colour selection too again and just attack individual sections one at a time, first off with "cell-shading" (layered shadows applied with the pencil tool), then blended with the airbrush, and the airbrush gets used in highlights too. The background usually starts off as just a solid blank field of colour and then gets selected last, and then I just detail it all in one go with the airbrush. It used to take a fair chunk of time to finish an individual piece, and it's still not quick, but I'm getting pretty good at speeding through this stuff now. But, like I said, it's probably COMPLETELY the wrong way to go about it. It's just the way I'M comfortable with doing it ...
That said, I do keep meaning to do a tutorial of sorts showing how I do it ...
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Well I don't understand any of the laying or tech words so you might have to make a vidoe or something.
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When you make it you send link?
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Well I reckon when I finally get round to it I'll wind up doing a special journal entry just to shout about it, anyway ...
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Man she just looks plain awesome. You did an awesome job on her.
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