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GoblinQueeen — A Splash of Orange
Published: 2005-03-14 13:39:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 13079; Favourites: 227; Downloads: 941
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Second in the color inspired Retro Girls series.Well, I walked into my bathroom tonight to find water all over the floor. Evidently, there's a leak in the underside of the sink and when I turned on the faucet for the cat to get a drink (she likes her water straight from the source, go fig) it went all over the place. So what better to do when you're frustrated than relax by finishing up a piece that's been nearly done for a couple weeks now
The bathing suit she's wearing here was inspired by an actual one from the fourties, though I think that one had a floral motif. The shoes are the same style I put in the May piece. I have a pair and they are far more comfortable than they look
Media: Original skech of figure vectored in Illustrator, background added with pen and brush tool in Photoshop.
Other colors in the series so far:
Red: [link]
Blue: [link]
Green: [link]
Purple: [link]
Silver: [link]
Black: [link]
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Comments: 107
Awww!! I love these, they look so pretty and classic. I'm really enjoying looking through your gallery. THank you for sharing your art!
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hahaha yay! what a fun piece ^^ great use of orange!!! now i'm suddenly craving some orange soda...
love the design on the bathing suit!! and the sunglasses give it a nice touch
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OMG her shoes @_@ *wants* and her sunglasses!!!!! I want! >.<
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thats pretty cool! I love the colors.. and the styl of the 60s
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beautiful, as all your Retro Girls are! great color scheme idea, does this mean you might collect them all into another calendar for next year?
also, i don't know if i've ever mentioned this before, but i really like how you make the background fill colors off-register from the lineart, it's a great look.
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Oh yes, the 2006 calander is a definate, and I'm even going to try to get it out before Dec 31 st
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Count me in 4 2006!!!
A friend saw the last one and commented"looks like it belongs in a 15-16 year-old girl's room(she's an artist too,just too crippled nowadays to work,may have been a pain-filled day that brought that on.).""I liked it or wouldn't have bought it" says I."Humph" came the reply and she stalked out the door and left...
Only neg. thought on drawings is that background is a little spartan.
Many drawings of the fifty's make me think of a Norman Rockwell painting cleaned up,and reduced to it's basic elements.
(OK this IS coming from a non poster of art untill Set./Oct. so it doesn't count for TOO much
Sin.
KenF.
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awesome! good luck with it! i don't think i ever told you how well your 2005 calendar came out, it's really impressive. i always worry about proper color calibration, etc, and things never seem to look the same printed out as they do on my monitor, but you did an excellent job, and your calendar is really a work of art!
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lol, well, and I found out you really have to keep an eye on it. The one ~ Jarod-the-Stampede printed really really really dark. I ended up giving him one of mine in the meantime.
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really? wow, that's kind of freaky that it would be inconsistent like that. i'm glad mine's good! that was sweet of you to lend him yours.
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well, actually, I lent him one I was giving to someone else...guess that's not so sweet of me...
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ha, well, as long as the someone else doesn't find out, you're in the clear!
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The colors are very nice. Makes one another look pastely. From now on, orange is my fav color.
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I love that you stylize actual pieces of clothing -- and some that you own, apparently! Love the glamours look of this -- impressive considering she's in a bikini!
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I love this style and the images you create. Keep it up.
Nothing ryhmes with 'orange', you know....
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Reminds me of I Love Lucy for so strange reason.
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I love your retro girls prints. Your Vector art always makes me smile.
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All of a sudden I am craving orange soda and McDonald's french fries. (Pool safety bars remind me of the Golden Arches.)
Cool job.
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I have a cat (Chloe) that does the same thing!!!
Since Orange is my favorite color and the Retro Girls are AWESOME!
This is an INSTANT FAV for me!!
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lol, you know, I've seen cats play with the water in the sink, but I had nver seen one drink before
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I love it muchly
Please tell me you're continuing the color series and you're doing something green (me gusta green ^_^)
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Being in Florida I love the oranges ^_^. Very prety design, her hair reminds me of Lucy.
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Good job! I have shoes like that too, and you're right, they are comfortable.
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::Giggles:: I keep looking at that and thinking of a swimming pool full of oraange soda O.o
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Orange water? yuck! but I like the overall picture, as I go all of GoblinQueeen's work, cause it's awesome!
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I love your pin ups they are absolutely wonderful
pepsi
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Really nice image! I love her pose and the pool in the BG. Bravo.
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dude this rocks! i looove orange...i have an orange bandanna
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Very cool, I like the warm, summery feel the colors give.
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citrusy 
It's very flirtatous and fun
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Very darling! You always have such great placement between your characters and the background!
And yet again...I see ma in her. Remind me to upload mom's old teenage pinup photos...
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Ooooh, I'd love to see, I'm such a sucker for vintage photos
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Did I ever tell you I love your Retro works? She's adorable! (Even though it's orange, a color with which I have personal problems [in-joke 
But I also thought of MacDonald's when I saw the swimming pool...
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I really like this, something about it seems like a picture you'd see in a magazine. The colours are so bring and eye-catching, and I love the design of her swimsuit
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[ congratulations on the dd. it was a wonderful and thoughfully written piece. ]
first, i love the whole retro feel, reminds you of the simple glamour in things.
the [ colouring outside the lines ] compliment the fun and flirtatious feel.
though the line of her back looks a tad odd.
shes so wonderfully and exaggeratingly curvaceous that that particular line looks...weird.
[ haha, i read the critique thing and i still feel weird saying less than pleasing things ]
but it still makes you hallucinate that the smell of tangerines and summer is wafting about...
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Hmm...maybe she could be a label for citrus perfume
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That is hot. My favorite color is blue. Wink wink!
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Those almost look like Golden Arches of McDonald's going into the swimming pool.
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