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Luthrai — Huck and Shanti
Published: 2008-03-18 17:04:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1821; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 10
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Just a (quick) charcoal piece of my cousins, Huck and Shanti, for my aunt and uncle.Yes, I'm well aware that Huck is a golden retriever and Shanti is a Japanese chin. That doesn't stop them from being family, though. (That Shanti passed away a while back doesn't change his familial status, either, 'cuz he'll always be my cousin.)
Huck came out a lot darker than I originally intended, but I'm very pleased with a few bits. The crimped fur layered over his ear, for one. I spent a while looking at the photograph going, "Hunh... I have no idea how to do that.... Guess I'll just experiment." So I still have no idea how to draw crimpy fur... but I do know that it's not as hard as it looks.
No, there is no background, because then you wouldn't be able to pick out the dogs from it. ^-^
Download for fullsize view, though I'm not sure why you'd want to. Scanners eat charcoal for breakfast, I swear.
Original size is something like... 8 in. x 11 in. I cropped it a bit because it was just empty space or excess rug. Not terribly exciting, y'know?
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Comments: 27
so cute and so sweet! This is really sweet and so beautiful!
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Awww...I love animals so this is really my type of drawing. So cute!
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aww the golden retreiver reminds me of our dog natasha who passed away 3 years ago. this is a really nice peice of art :3
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this is so cool i love the little dog curled up
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i wonder why scanners never get along with charcoal.....
my dad doesnt let me scan charcoal.
anyways its beautiful.
by the way i love your dragons...
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I hate scanning charcoal, but I love working with it. If I ever find a scanner that doesn't hate charcoal, I'll be thrilled to the moon and back.
And thanks!
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yeah i like charcoal too
youre welcome
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This looks beautiful, Luthrai. And I'm sure it looks even better in person, because charcoal and pencil are the mortal enemies of the scanner. As I know only too well...
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Hey nice! I havent seen these guys in a long time
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Huck's acquired a few more lumps... Or rather, the lumps he's got have gotten a bit bigger. Still the same loveable golden, though.... albeit deaf. *sniffle* Poor old guy.
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Goodness, your scanner really did eat that. Gah. This hardly does justice to the original. Oh, well.
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Bravo! 
I love how lifelike they are. Your narrative was so sweat. I agree, dogs..or any pet for that matter, become family.
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Thanks.
Yep, pets have always been part of the family for me, though I don't think I started considering my aunt's dogs to be my cousins until I was 12 or so. I'm not usually much of one for labels, but I'm glad I did come up with it in this case, since it helped me understand my relationship with them better. ^-^
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Comes from being near-sighted.
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Really cute. The fur texture is wonderful, you work with charcoal very well.
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Thanks. Of course, I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out just how that whole "charcoal" thing is supposed to work again.
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Awww, they're very cute. Of course pets are family!
Scanners eat charcoal and coloured pencils for breakfast. I feel the pain. D=
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I think they like to eat coloured pencils more, though. Even though I swear I can hear my scanner fastening on a bib and chortling whenever I break out a charcoal piece to scan. ...In fact, my scanner is partially the reason I don't really use coloured pencils anymore.
I suppose that's why Photoshop was invented.
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Yeah it probably is the reason. But for some reason it won't stop me sometimes. I either have a perverse desire to colour something and see if I can foil the scanner, or just because sometimes I really need to colour in real media...
But that is also why I think photoshop gets snazzier with more real media effects, for all of us poor saps who want to make it look real! XD
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I hear you.
My major problem with photoshop has always been with how hard it is to get texture into a piece. Probably always will be, too. I mean, yeah, I can throw a filter on, but that's just not enough for me most of the time. That's why I keep trying Corel every so often. But that has it's own load of quirks to deal with.
*sigh* Maybe I should just give in and try a later edition of photoshop (since I use 5.5, now). >^.-.^<
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I've tried painter as well, and it really confuses the heck out of me and so I give up like the pansy that I am...but yeah, before I got the later edition of PS (I used to have 5.0) the only way I could simulate texture was by using a small brush and scribbling...but that takes way too much time...and requires making the image huge.
Although truthfully, even with the multiple brush types I still sort of do the scribblies.
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