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Description Here's a tutorial I made about preparing watercolor paper for painting! The photographs from the tutorial are of this painting in process. c: The tutorial is for #watercolorists painting contest. X3


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Pikachu ~ from Pokemon c:

GIVE IT YOUR LUNCH OR IT ZAPS YOU.

Painted with Daniel Smith watercolors , on Arches 140lb Cold Press, with some prisma color pencil and photoshop edits for funs. <3

>< mmmm. *hide*

Maybe completed this in April, but lately I've had this thing about uploading stuff to the internet. I just want to hide it all under my bed and go draw something better. I haven't really made a giant painting like this for a really long time, I've just been making a lot of little paintings. So I'm kind of nervous I guess, even though I like it.

Inspired by a really amazing (shocking, even) childhood memory of lightening. Many people grow up in places where lightening is common, but I did not ever see it until I was 5 or 6 and visiting Oklahoma. X3 (I came from Alaska, where there was rarely lightening.)

My first memory of lightening is very vivid. Oklahoma was so wide and flat (I had never seen flat before, either), made of gold grass and warm dirt under a dusty blue sky... for days that was all it looked like. And then everything turned purple. Flat land in shadow with a thin line of turquoise beneath towering thunderheads. Then suddenly, lightening. ^^

Maybe Pikachu is in Oklahoma?

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Made to be a pair with Ninetails.
Here are the prints of them that were at Sakura Con.

Thank you for looking! >3<
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Comments: 218

Katte [2017-06-28 16:17:46 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful! The lightning effect you produced is amazing!

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Bookworm247 [2017-01-25 10:52:59 +0000 UTC]

Great style, your drawing looks so unique 

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Sanmasola [2016-04-12 06:19:00 +0000 UTC]

CUTE (I W I)

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AphelionMars [2016-04-10 00:50:27 +0000 UTC]

AAH, I love the colors here, and the sense of movement in the grass and clouds makes it very dramatic! And I love your style for drawing Pikachu, it's sooo cute!  

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Milk7u7 [2016-04-09 10:15:14 +0000 UTC]

HOW U DO IT OWO   

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Wildtale [2016-03-11 13:05:32 +0000 UTC]

That's watercolor? That's amazing!

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zombieman55 [2016-01-28 15:32:10 +0000 UTC]

This is awsome! i love Pikachu

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fishofglass [2016-01-22 23:14:51 +0000 UTC]

beautiful work!

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merceller [2016-01-04 15:02:12 +0000 UTC]

KAWAII X3

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Ramman05 [2015-12-19 20:46:11 +0000 UTC]

Awesome

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LikaKinsky [2015-12-09 00:45:56 +0000 UTC]

it is so beautiful!

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LumenBlurb [2015-11-20 17:02:51 +0000 UTC]

Cute.

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DrJem [2015-11-15 03:57:10 +0000 UTC]

The use of negative space here is very dramatic, I love it

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TheAngriestHorse [2015-11-09 22:34:05 +0000 UTC]

My friend has this EXACT poster of this!

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blueswoosh [2015-03-24 02:37:45 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing

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Bluerface [2015-03-24 01:56:30 +0000 UTC]

Impressive! The color palatte and shading effects are amazing.

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ShinyLumeo [2015-03-04 23:13:05 +0000 UTC]

woah

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AliceCat33 [2014-11-24 06:27:23 +0000 UTC]

So cool!~

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thirstyaoba [2014-11-23 04:24:03 +0000 UTC]

pikachu in this style is wonderful!!

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Matology979 [2014-11-22 19:48:17 +0000 UTC]

Awesome Pikachu

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hunterN05 [2014-09-30 08:28:39 +0000 UTC]

Whoa! trippy coolness~

NIcely done

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Universe2793 [2014-08-14 15:36:34 +0000 UTC]

How in the hay did you ever get such a vibrant lightening using only water color? Just, damn this is some skill! o.o

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sinribbon [2014-03-04 17:13:11 +0000 UTC]

Awesome art!

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Taniapanda [2013-12-09 18:05:14 +0000 UTC]

my sister got this at Captain Blue Hen Comics on Saturday!

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Taniapanda In reply to Taniapanda [2013-12-09 18:05:35 +0000 UTC]

I got the Totoro ones!

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trapped-in-eternity [2013-07-21 18:48:30 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This is great!

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iamsocrazy25 [2013-07-21 18:37:39 +0000 UTC]

I bought this from you at Comic Con in Seattle!! It's framed and on my wall!! )

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StoneMillEquestrian [2013-07-20 01:32:26 +0000 UTC]

I live in Oklahoma! Yay for Okies!!!

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lightninglana [2013-03-23 08:24:30 +0000 UTC]

This is just gorgeous

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CraftSwitch [2013-02-23 05:06:43 +0000 UTC]

this is fantastic.

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Evoli-niceli [2012-12-30 14:24:12 +0000 UTC]

So shiny

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XxLouveBlanchexX [2012-12-13 19:04:28 +0000 UTC]

So cute !!

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nobsters [2012-11-10 14:28:34 +0000 UTC]

Haha! I live in Oklahoma,
where I live the sky is this bright whitish blue,
at night it turns orange red,
and during storms it turns this midnight blue-purple color that is broken with strikes of white.
^^ Oklahoma has completely random weather( heat one day, rain the next, heat again, then snow kinda thing) but it is quite beautiful!!

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sammiedoll [2012-08-28 19:06:38 +0000 UTC]

This is just beautiful!

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guitarlixx [2012-08-03 17:58:51 +0000 UTC]

This is beautifully done. I'm just starting to learn about watercolors, thank you for the tutorial!

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carnival [2012-07-14 04:40:30 +0000 UTC]

great colour palette~! :'D these are really nice paintings~! :'>

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Dani-Castro [2012-07-06 22:39:16 +0000 UTC]

IMPRESSIVE!!

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hanabeta [2012-06-17 00:12:20 +0000 UTC]

Too cute!

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tin-sama [2012-06-04 20:21:44 +0000 UTC]

Ahhh!! It is so cute!! Your colors and style are ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!! I bought post cards from you at A-KON 23 and I put them all in a frame. I wish I had gotten you to sign them!! ;-; but thank you SO MUCH for coming to A-KON! I am now a big fan!

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Checkerthehedgehog [2012-05-25 07:36:19 +0000 UTC]

wow this just so amazing

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danibabyrox14 [2012-05-06 03:11:09 +0000 UTC]

So. Freaking. Amazing... and Cute

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Kuraiko-Sakura [2012-04-26 19:14:33 +0000 UTC]

:3

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jessecomeau80 [2012-03-13 09:49:13 +0000 UTC]

Soooooo Goooooood!!!!! I love this!

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BriMercedes [2012-01-31 17:22:19 +0000 UTC]

Dat lightning. You've really got a nice handle on watercolor!

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tenko72 [2012-01-29 21:14:24 +0000 UTC]

Great scene! I love the sky, lightning, and grass and that Pikachu looks so cool. I like how it looks like it's acting like a lightning rod and how sparks shoot from its cheeks.

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Eternal-Rainbow [2012-01-22 09:41:19 +0000 UTC]

Aww, so adorable !
I love the colors. <3

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00BANDGEEK [2011-12-16 23:29:28 +0000 UTC]

SOOOO CUUUUUTE! LOVE EMMM TO DEEATH!

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StrongWind876 [2011-12-12 05:45:01 +0000 UTC]

Oh my gosh! ELECTRICAL STORM!!! I love pikachu (my friends reckon im a raichu cause of my "electrical personality" ) lol I love it.

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Davidbatmanfan [2011-12-11 22:53:15 +0000 UTC]

This is so amazing.

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xNeonGlow [2011-11-30 07:56:12 +0000 UTC]

*beautiful

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