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Griatch-art — What's yer name?
Published: 2012-04-23 18:27:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 3380; Favourites: 95; Downloads: 8
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"What is your name, girl?" I asked the jester."Oh, I don't have a name" she answered happily. "Names are slippery buggers you see. Slips right off me they do, never seem to want to hang around for long."
She put her head in her hands and peered at me. "Ooooh, I know!" she said, "why dontcha name me? If you name me I'm sure the name will stick around for a while."
"I don't know..."
"Aww, come now, you don't get to name a fool every day!"
I looked at her. She looked back with that mirthful face of hers. Inspiration struck. "Then I shall name you ... Mirth" I said.
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A lot of experimenting with light in this one. Critique and feedback is appreciated as always.
MyPaint + GIMP, a bunch of evenings.
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Griatch
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Great piece of art! Nice lighting and use of colors. I also like the clothes and subtle design on the girl's right sleeve. I also want to thank you for your great tutorials, they have helped me on my own little journey into using Gimp and MyPaint.
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Glad you like my work! She's a fun character to paint. Good to hear my tutorials are useful too, thanks a lot for this comment (sorry for the slow reply).
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Griatch
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Wow, this is very beautiful. I like the colors and the details within both background and foreground.
I wish I was this good in MyPaint, I'm still learning how to use it to my advantage.
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Thanks, glad you like it!
MyPaint is a nice little program, very natural for painting I think, and combined with GIMP the two programs become a very useful combo for digital art.
You have some interesting character concepts in your gallery there already, just keep at it!
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Griatch
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You're welcome! And many thanks, I'll keep trying to practice and become better. 
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I like this, especially her fine strands of hair.. It just bewildered me because I knew that character from a picture where she was sad or crying, not sure anymore, so now I can't really tell if I believe the happiness she shows 
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The crying girl is actually another person (it's intended to be the Unknown girl from Red Apples Lie). I never considered the two to be similar, but now that you mention it I can see why they can be confused! I've never displayed the jester as being anything but merry though.
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Griatch
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Thanks for your clarification! I saw that other picture AGES ago, and my memory for faces is terribly weak, so no wonder I got confused...by bad.
Now I can see jester girl as the person she is supposed to be
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l'kl;asdfjklsdfjklsdfajklsdfjkldf HOW DO YOU DO THIS IN MY PAINT.
be my teacher okay. adopt me or something and teach me your lovely ways
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Heh, thanks, glad you like it!
If you want to learn more about how I work, you can take a peek at my series of tutorials and videos; you can find them here: [link]
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Griatch
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I don't know why, but I find this picture very attractive. Probably because of her eyes and emotions - looks so natural... Wow. Can't say much. Simply love this one.
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Glad you like it! Thanks for the kind comment!
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Griatch
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I like it, very well done with both the mini-story and the art
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The two go together, glad you like it.
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Griatch
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She is cute and I don't say that about kids very often.
Its a great little story to go with it.
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She makes me smile, mostly.
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Griatch
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You're really addicted to that character, aren't you? Great work again - as usual! Thanks for sharing and showing to the world what you can actually do with Gimp (and MyPaint)!
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Yes, she's amusing to paint, makes me smile.
MyPaint + GIMP is a nice combination, glad you like my work and thanks for the comment!
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Griatch
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Awesome awesome awesome!!!!!!
I try to make the most out of Gimp, but I'm not very experienced with coloring @_@
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Thanks! GIMP's quite a competent software for digital art. If you need some pointers on colouring etc, you might be interested in my series of tutorials and videos I've done for doing art in GIMP. You can find them here: [link] . Good luck!
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Griatch
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