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Princess escape
Published: 2011-05-11 00:15:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 26700; Favourites: 1353; Downloads: 253
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After being stuck in the tower for weeks, the princess no longer had the patience to wait for a prince to rescue her, so she decided to escape the tower on her own. That was a little more troublesome than she had expected, though.This is another one of my old ideas, and I've wanted to make a proper painting out of it for years. Well, now I have, and despite struggling with the tower more than I like to admit, I really enjoyed working on this. Ah, how I enjoy illustrating fairytales (or that is, illustrating how I think fairytales should be)
Enjoy!
Medium: Photoshop CS5
Date: May 11, 2011
Time spent: Hmmm, I'd say about 50 hours, working on and off
References: I got a lovely reference for the princess's boot
EDIT: Wait, do I spot a DD here???
Holy purple rodent, this is awesome! Thank you so much for suggesting, and for featuring this painting of mine, I'm truly honored
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Comments: 217
It's not easy too look after them princesses all the time!
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And Mr. Dragon is just trying to make sure his kids stay safe when they go out adventuring.
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Very nice 
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Thank you! I believe the dragon knows quite a lot as well
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I love her already. Also, magnificent composition and execution. (Even though it's comparatively old) it's immensely impressive!
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Thank you! I am very glad you like it (though it is indeed an old painting of mine 
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Thank you, I'm very glad you do!
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Indeed it is - she's a girl of action
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Thank you very much! I'm glad you think so
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Jeg synes at det er veldig bra. KlΓ¦rne hennes er pene og skyggelegging er kjempebra, som er fargenes. Jeg ogsΓ₯ liker hele konsept.
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Tusen takk! Jeg er veldig glad for at du liker tegningen og ideen min - jeg tenkte pΓ₯ Γ₯ lage et bilde som dette i flere Γ₯r fΓΈr jeg faktisk tegnet det
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Og det er veldig bra, tro meg.
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Dragons make the best babysitters for those bad little teenage girls. ^.^
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Hehe, yeah, they do a pretty decent job
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Love your princess boots! lovely. Must have caught her out hiking hehe I love it! Or maybe just trying to set a style for her kingdom (if it isn't already like that). Gives me a lot of ideas of what a more practical princess would do
Some of us enjoy other things in addition to pretty dresses and feminine activities. Er... not that I'm implying that "I'm" a princess!
Also, fantastic expressions on both! Hmm, I don't usually use this many exclamations. ^.^ Just your luck! (Not sure if that's good luck or bad, tho, haha.)
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Thank you very much! She is indeed a practical princess, though she has a hard time finding the kind of clothes she would prefer amongst her required, girly outfits (it's not like they give her pants and stuff, those impractical seamstresses...). But she makes the best out of the situation
And I certainly don't mind exclamations - life wouldn't be the same without them! Yeah!
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Amazing work! I love the way she is biting her lip, and how you wrapped the tail around the tower to poke into the picture on the other side
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Thank you! It makes me happy to know you like it
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I guess it's the kind of grin you don't want to mess with
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Thank you very much, Wonkystick! I remember you from Sketch Star
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Aha! glad you remember me... I'm still making animations on Sketch Star , but I think I'm finally running out of ideas on what to draw.
I left a message on your latest life drawing cartoon, very funny
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Of course I remember you, I've spent quite some time on Sketch Star you know
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I know what you mean about drawing tablets not working with the new sketch star, I've had the same problem. I just use the mouse for most details and the tablet for fine stuff like hair etc.
It would be great if you could do a new animation, the other sketchers would be quite excited to think you had returned, even if it was just a fleeting visit.
Anyway, I'm really liking your excellent new artwork.
I did take a break for 2 weeks from SS and it's helped as I just published 2 new animations that have had a good reaction from the voters... I'd better get on with real world stuff next though
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I guess I'll just need a lot more patience while working on animations then, seeing as it takes time to work with a tablet that messes up all the time. I'll give it a few more tries whenever I have time, so that people get to know that I'm still alive, haha
Thank you very much for the kind words, I'm glad you like my personal artwork
I should have a look at your new animations; I'm sure you and all the others have progressed a lot since I left SS ^^
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I find that one day Sketch Star works OK, then the next day the delay between moving the mouse/tablet pen is like trying to draw with a pen made out of bendy rubber. I'm glad you might have another go at animating.
I've done a ridiculous number of animations over the last year or so. I keep thinking of retiring gracefully, but then I come up with another idea
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My problem with SS is that the brush is lagging behind, and that the program reacts as if I'm right-clicking on the screen all the time. It's reeeally annoying, and makes it next to impossible to create anything decent :/
As long as you're inspired and enjoy SS, I think you should continue hanging around there. I know pretty much everybody would miss you if you happened to disappear, seeing as you've been active there for so long now. But of course, it's up to you; we all have lives outside of the Internet
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Amazing!!! I think She must very brave if she decided to escape))
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Thanks! She is indeed a brave (and impatient) girl
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Quite fantastic.
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Thank you very much! I got a reference picture of a very beautiful boot (without the bow
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I would like to believe that the dragon is acting as a lookout for her.
But then again that's just me.
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I intended for the dragon to be a mean, cunning creature, but you are free to interpret the picture the way you want
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I seem to have a thing for controversial view points.
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Beautiful work. Congratulations to the DD.
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Thank you very much!
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My pleasure. You're always very welcome!
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Now there's a princess after my own heart!
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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so
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