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Lord Tearlin of Life,His Lady Echorijn of Light.
Lord Velorum of Death,
His Lady Ranev of Darkness.
They are the Avatars, great and mighty in their realms.
Those of you who've been reading 's novel will know that, YES, Book I: Awakenings is being published soon, and will be sold at Anime North . This deviation will also be sold as a high quality 11x17" print as well! (And the print version won't be watermarked)
Painting plaid is one of the most trying things I've ever attempted in Painter. ><. And you can't even SEE it that well when it's shrunken down to this size! (More reason for you to buy the print, you'll likely be able to see it there).
Thanks to Raven and Niku for letting me build on your works.. it's been a great honor.
Characters are © ~Ravenfire
Lineart done by *MincedNiku
Colors by *exdevlin
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Comments: 48
I love this picture. Which means: I am in love with this picture, including all the characters on it. 
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I'm glad you like the characters! :3
They are from the novel, Shards of Alesya by Raven O'Shea.
The lineart was actually done by =MincedNiku , I just did the coloring.
Most of my other characters in my gallery have stories to go with them though.. ^^
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I'll go check that out now. You colored it very nicely.
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oh wow thats really cool you got the color skeme really well done ^^
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Thanks Cody.. I basically had to use the colors off of Kyla's older art, but I didn't realize they were so hard to work with in some cases. ><
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well I am very impressed ^^ I like it when an artist who is doing a work belonging to someones else attempts there still I find it need to see them challange it myself, though its also cool when they do there own thing like lancermonnas ver of my rose XD
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It's definitely challenging, but it's a good learning experience too. I now know how to shade better
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I like the two characters on top. Beautiful coloring job, Max
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Thanks Joycey
When is the rush gonna die down for you? I wanna see more of your art!
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I'm probably on permanent hiatus... it's looks like it at least -_-
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Aww.. 
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the visa is done and over with - thank goodness. Did I tell you about that? Or did Andy?
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No, I wasn't told anything!
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i *love* the color! you've done a fantastic job.
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Wow...Just wow...That's all I can really think to say. Even though I've been gone for quite awhile, your art still amazes me to no end. I mean, I've seen similar art, but your's has this fae-like quality, this innocence and beauty that just can't be matched.
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Nicely done! reminds me of the comic "hot gimmick" style. I like the coloring and the balance of light and dark. bravicimo!
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Pretty much any bookstore like Shulers has it
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Hm... *goes off to see if the local store has it..*
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The picture looks great! : D <333
I adore your colouring style, the way you shade is nice~
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I think you did a beautiful job. This is the same graphic as on the frontpage of the SoA site, isn't it? I was admiring it a couple days ago.
What I like about this, specifically, is the flat blacks. (In Rain's hair, for example.) I love flat black, but I'm never certain it works when the other colors are shaded, but here it does.
Skin shading is fab, too. I may look at your gallery as a reference for the shadows/highlights on faces if that's all right.
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*lol* Of course it's alright. Everybody's galleries are arouand for looking at, so if you're trying to learn from others' art, it's all the better. I'm just amazed you're trying to learn from ME.
Yes, this is the same one as the SoA layout. What happened actually was that Raven had sent me the layout graphic to color in, and then she decided that she wanted the original linework colored as well and gave me a higher resolution version of the lines to color -- and this is what came of it. So I technically had to paint this picture twice. ^^
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I had to do a painting twice, once, not for good reasons, but because I flattened it. ^_^;
This struck me as really good example of the shading the faces.
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Oh lord, I can't tell you how many times I've flattened accidentally in photoshop.. annoyed me so much. Now I keep it all separate until it's finally time to upload somewhere else.
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Exactly, when I upload, it's a flattened file that's been saved as something else.
It's so frustrating when it happens, tho.
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Save often, and in many places.
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Cool! I really like the way the hair was rendered!
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Wish I had the time and patience to get back into the community :S
I'm a real fan of your transitions... I've never taken the time to really figure out how to digitally paint or color until now and I really wish I had.
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Transitions? As in shading or..?
Thanks for the comment, Spency.
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Yep! The transitions from one tone to the next... so, your shading I suppose!
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Actually, I always thought I needed more work on that. My coloring seems flat to me a lot of the time.. :/
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Oooooh. Any chance of puting the book up for sale on the net somewhere, I definetly cannot get up to Toronto. :/ And I reeeeeeaaaaallllllllllllyyyy want this now. :3
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I believe you'd have to email Raven about it. Last I remember, I think she was asking people to email her if they were interested and couldn't make it up to Anime North.
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