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SvenjaLiv — Viking Vampire
Published: 2011-08-26 16:46:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 4564; Favourites: 96; Downloads: 35
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Eric again! I wanted to try out my new Prismacolor pencils and the reference was perfect for it. I learned a lot, especially about shading skin. I also used the grid method for a change, since with colouring pencils you don't have to worry about erasing the lines as much. It worked better than expected!I'm done with him now, I promise. At least for a while.
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Media: Colouring pencils and pencil on Bristol board.
Time: 15 hours.
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Comments: 65
I just cant understand how color pencils work, so i think that ur job is brilliant! Amazing!
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Thanks! The trick with colouring pencils is layering... lots of layers of different colours on top of each other.
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Good job! the talent is! try and be sure to become a somebody!
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Thank you very much! I'm working on it.
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Wow, great work! Love the coloring job and the texture you added to it
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Thank you so much! I'm really glad you like it!
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This is really cool. Colored pencils are kind of hard, but you controlled them really well here.
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Thank you! I've recently gotten back into them and I really enjoy drawing with them.
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It looks great, especially the skin tone is amazing.
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That's great to hear, skin is always a challenge. So thank you!
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The colours and shading on the skin is amazing. You have a very good eye ;D
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Thanks - I've been practicing on getting the tones right so that's great to hear!
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That's so nice of you, thanks!
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this is amazing.
So what colors do you use for the skin? Cause I recently started coloring with pencils and its so hard for me to figure out which colors to use :S
also, do you draw the sketch with a normal pencil and then color over it? wont the pencil smudge? thank yu!
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Thanks a million!
The skin is a mix of a few different colours. I used Prismacolours here, and I have a few skin-like tones - beige, rose peach, light oxide red, and eggshell for the more yellow parts. For the darker areas I added dark browns, mostly raw umber. Generally, for skin, I use something like peach or beige, and then darken it with brown.
And the pencil does smudge, yeah. Usually I sketch with a pencil, then lay in my colours, and then if I need to sharpen the details I'll use pencil again. Eric's face is a good example - I sketched it, layered in the colours, and then used a pencil to draw most of the fine shadows and details like his eyes, etc.
I hope that helps some! If you have more questions, just ask!
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oh wow thank you so much, you don't know how much that helps me ^^ I got my first set of colored pencils some days ago, they're prismacolor too 
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Glad to be of help, that's great! Good luck with your own endeavours!
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Thanks! They were what drew me to the reference so I'm glad they turned out well!
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One of my favorite vampires! So handsome and awesome
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Yeah, he does rack up quite a lot of cool points, I think! I think he's awesome too. Glad you like this, thank you!
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Awww yea. Eric is awesome. One of the best vampires in any media, ever.
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Thank you, glad you approve!
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Even though it is stealing words from River Song (Doctor Who series): "Hello, sweetie!"
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Steal away, I'm sure. 
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I love this show and you did so well with this picture <3
If anything I find him the sexiest person on that show
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Heh, to be honest he's the reason why I still watch the show at all. Well, him and Alcide and Jessica, they're cool characters.
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