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Published: 2007-01-19 14:04:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 1449; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 34
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Penultimate Varjak illustration. (or second to penultimate... not quite decided yet...Varjak has stopped doing his power-up *shock @__@* and is following the dog, Cludge to a secret underground city full of mice with his friends where he hopes to find sanctuary from hard-core gang leader Sally Bones... the text says they had to be careful where they trod because of broken glass lying underneath the thick mists.
Indian ink and pooter (computer) shading.
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Of all the characters in Varjak Paw, I think Cludge was my favorite, I've been enjoying your illustrations of the book.
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I liked the big twin cats. I forget their names.
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Aw man, same here 
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Super cool! The Outlaw Varjak paw is one of my favourite book
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better than the book illustrations! Also, I got a puppy right aftr I read this, and I called him Cludge! Cludge! Woop! Cludge and Varjak have to b my two fave characters.
SALLY BONES IS COMING TO GET YOU!!!!!
lol, i had sugar, you should ignore most of what i just said, except the praise part
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I've completely forgotton what they're called, but I liked those two massive brother cats.
p.s. I like sugar... especially skittles.
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yesh. skittles! woop woop! the sour ones are so awesome, but they make my mouth sore...
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I like the lines. I would have had the tendency to keep adding lines like shading but you added just enough.
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I read the other comments and I get what you're sayin now!
Many thanks!!!
Haahaa!!!
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Thanks! Glad you like!
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Varjak Paw? I loved that book sooo much... Really love the shapes you got going here... :0
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Thanks! Kind of you to say so!
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Totally sweet! 
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Coolio!
Glad you likey!!!
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Yellow would look uber-awesome, you are right, but these are meant to be black and white... I agree it needs something tho... will try and add white swirls to the grey to see if it improves it...
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maybe some various shades of the grey if possible
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Nah, only allowed one midtone cos of the way it's gonna be printed
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I hope that didn't sound too defensive... it's just that it wouldn've been printed on the same quality of paper as most paperbacks that don't normally have pictures in... i've seen examples of this where they've tried to reproduce watercolours in black and white and it really doesn't work well.
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You can use halftones, getting a wide range of values using only one color, But that might look too comicbooky.
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Or the way it would be hypothetically printed rather...
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This is amazing!!! It really reminds me of the book...
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Yup. As I suspected. A beautiful composition. A worship.
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Thankyou, beautifully composed Kate's-face!!!
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I love the ink lines and the shapes. I miss the real world textures though. I betcha if you replaced the computergrey with a water-color grey back ground or acrylic grey background it would really come alive
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But alas, it would not reproduce well at all with the cheap printing processes that they use on books such as this... I was thinking of adding some mist-like swirls into the background grey though... that might improve it I think...
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It likes an exodus in the dark... All those power-up stints must have got you dizzy...
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Yeh, but a cuppa herbal tea afterwards and I was fine!
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like this strong lines a lot. like this pic, too. i think the best from all Varjak illustrations are this one, the previous one and the cover.
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Coolio! Thanks, that's good to know, I respect your opinions muchly!
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