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My part of a trade with ~Ramesses217

He wanted to see his mersnake champion, Alexius, in my style using india ink. (original reference: [link] ). I hope I got the bits and pieces right. D: Sometimes I misread things epically.

I have never done anything so complicated or involved as this before. Maybe I made it a challenge in my own right. But it was worth it for what I learned.

This took some inordinately long period of time. *gesture at scales incoherantly* And then there's so many /shades/ of green on his reference, so I wasn't sure how to translate them all to greyscale. So I did a wash for the breastplate as the final piece of this and then stared at myself and wanted to scream because um. XD THAT is not the style I was doing everything else in, so it was a matter of going back and shading all those scales all over again. D: After I'd spent two days on the black shading alone.

As for the actual process, well... I went into this wanting to do a good job. And then I spent a few hours sketching, trying to get the lines to behave, before I had to start inking this thing before I hated it too much and had to start over. D: I hate everything I draw lately.

But the more I've worked on this over the last week, here and there, nipping a few minutes to work on it again and again and again. Really, it only took so long because of the scales. XD;;;;; Oops?

Anyway. I haven't drawn and shaded scales in a long time. And I think I did a pretty damn decent job of it. Hopefully I did a passably decent job on the rest of it, too. D:

Media: India ink, speedball red (eyes), smooth bristol, caligraphy pens, paint brushes for the wash.
Time: Uh..... LOTS of time went into this. D: Six days, via at least eight hours.

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Description
My part of a trade with ~Ramesses217

He wanted to see his mersnake champion, Alexius, in my style using india ink. (original reference: [link] ). I hope I got the bits and pieces right. D: Sometimes I misread things epically.

I have never done anything so complicated or involved as this before. Maybe I made it a challenge in my own right. But it was worth it for what I learned.

This took some inordinately long period of time. *gesture at scales incoherantly* And then there's so many /shades/ of green on his reference, so I wasn't sure how to translate them all to greyscale. So I did a wash for the breastplate as the final piece of this and then stared at myself and wanted to scream because um. XD THAT is not the style I was doing everything else in, so it was a matter of going back and shading all those scales all over again. D: After I'd spent two days on the black shading alone.

As for the actual process, well... I went into this wanting to do a good job. And then I spent a few hours sketching, trying to get the lines to behave, before I had to start inking this thing before I hated it too much and had to start over. D: I hate everything I draw lately.

But the more I've worked on this over the last week, here and there, nipping a few minutes to work on it again and again and again. Really, it only took so long because of the scales. XD;;;;; Oops?

Anyway. I haven't drawn and shaded scales in a long time. And I think I did a pretty damn decent job of it. Hopefully I did a passably decent job on the rest of it, too. D:

Media: India ink, speedball red (eyes), smooth bristol, caligraphy pens, paint brushes for the wash.
Time: Uh..... LOTS of time went into this. D: Six days, via at least eight hours.

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