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Sylvia-chan — Helen's Winter

Published: 2013-01-13 02:24:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1256; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Description Entry for 's Christmas/winter contest!

I've been really excited for this! I was inspired by [link] to experiment with a bunch of different techniques!!! To create this piece I used...

A sock
Isopropyl alcohol (lots and lots of isopropyl alcohol)
Copic markers
Eye shadow (Iris and Crystalline from Mary Kay)
Nail polish
Embossing stuff (the silver on the dress is embossed!!!)
Opaque white
pencil
and probably more (nothing I can think of off of the top of my head though...)

Who is Helen? I'll just go ahead and ruin the story... I've been playing around with this in my mind for awhile (since hearing Oh Holy Night for the first time this year; the line "fall on your knees, oh hear the angel voices"), it involves "angels" (people with wings) and nonlinear time. The girl (on the left with the red glasses) Nelly (short for Helen) buys a one of a kind handmade red scarf on ebay, she turns around and notices on the TV there is a girl (an "angel") with the same scarf, a dead girl, on the news. This would be the girl on the right with the wings. Anyway, to make a long story short (and cut out all of the interesting details...) the "angels" are all people who have died and been brought back to life with these magic boxes (which I'm not going to explain here, sorry), the "angel" who had died was actually Nelly herself (after she had died). Any way, it's pretty crazy, and makes very little sense, but is moderately interesting to consider (I think )

So basically, this is Helen as she is now and as she will be!

References used:
[link]

I really want a dress like that! (but maybe a little longer and maybe in green ) (Inspired by [link] , I'll have one of these things someday! (unlikely))

The sweater is from American Apparel and the boots are from Delia's. (I love those boots!!!)

Oh yeah, If you're a random person reading this you should join and take part in their next contest (or this one [link] if you're ridiculously fast)! It's a really awesome group if you like to create OCs!

For a limited time (until January 22nd) I'm doing super cheap point commissions! Check them out [link] ! I'd love to draw something for you
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Comments: 9

PhiannaRose [2013-01-26 00:09:48 +0000 UTC]

This came out awesome! I tried that stock pose and kept failing! So, seeing this is just...AWESOME!

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Sylvia-chan In reply to PhiannaRose [2013-02-10 00:19:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much!

I find that really surprising after seeing what an amazing job you did with [link] . You're just so good at drawing different poses!

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PhiannaRose In reply to Sylvia-chan [2013-02-10 00:34:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

But yeah, for SOME reason, I have a hard time with this pose. D: Tried 10+ times and kept having to throw the papers out.

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Shroomsta [2013-01-14 10:41:55 +0000 UTC]

This is really pretty, I love the wings!

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Sylvia-chan In reply to Shroomsta [2013-01-14 21:50:30 +0000 UTC]

thank you thank you thank you!!! I was pretty happy with how the wings turned out, I'm glad you think so too

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shandsy [2013-01-13 18:35:26 +0000 UTC]

beautiful! So few anime/manga artists on this site have much originality in their style, but I love this! I envy your coloring technique

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Sylvia-chan In reply to shandsy [2013-01-14 05:13:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much I've been trying really hard to develop my own style! I love yours! It's pretty interesting and definitely original! Especially the faces and hair in your most recent work (the expression on [link] 's face is pure genius!).

(as for my coloring, all I can say is Copic markers make everything look better )

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shandsy In reply to Sylvia-chan [2013-01-15 00:39:37 +0000 UTC]

thank you!! and yeah, Copic markers are fantastic

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Sylvia-chan In reply to shandsy [2013-01-24 00:06:29 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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