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Murasaki99 β€” Reckless Colored Sketch

Published: 2008-05-12 02:14:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 627; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 15
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Description Finally got to sling some ink and colors on the initial sketch of 's original character Reckless, done for the 4K kiriban. I think he may be a bit too blue rather than black? Heh, trying to draw either black or white equines is challenging. A black and white equine moreso. This was a lot of fun!

This was inked with a Tombo brushmarker, with initial colors laid down with a combination of Copic and Marvy markers, then touched up in Paintshop Pro after scanning.

Needless to say, Reckless belongs to . I hope I did him justice.
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Comments: 36

Posiitive [2008-06-19 18:07:38 +0000 UTC]

This is cool I like the colors and the shading

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Murasaki99 In reply to Posiitive [2008-06-20 05:43:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! designed him and I just loved the pinto patterns and wanted to try and paint him.

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Posiitive In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-06-20 05:55:00 +0000 UTC]

So cool
You did a good job

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Murasaki99 In reply to Posiitive [2008-06-20 07:52:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I love drawing and painting horses.

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Posiitive In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-06-20 19:07:43 +0000 UTC]

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Shessy14 [2008-05-14 19:37:55 +0000 UTC]

omg u drew him amazingly definitly got to fav beautifull pinto

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Murasaki99 In reply to Shessy14 [2008-05-17 14:59:26 +0000 UTC]

So glad you like him.

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FlareAndIcicle [2008-05-12 13:57:12 +0000 UTC]

I can't believe how gorgeous he looks! And I could swear it was Photoshop work if you hadn't said it was traditional! I'm so in love with this pic of Reckless! His pose, colouring and the feel of it are all sooo amazing!

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Murasaki99 In reply to FlareAndIcicle [2008-05-12 14:18:45 +0000 UTC]

So glad you like him! The under-coloring and inks are all traditional, just the touch ups are digital.

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FlareAndIcicle In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-17 08:56:49 +0000 UTC]

Really awesome!

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Silverelf-Gilraen [2008-05-12 04:11:39 +0000 UTC]

Wow... He looks so ethereal! The blue adds a nice touch, too.

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Murasaki99 In reply to Silverelf-Gilraen [2008-05-12 04:29:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! A coal black horse can have a blue shine, so I went for it. Last time I used blue I ended up with a purely blue horse, so I'm glad if he looks black with a bluish shine.

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Silverelf-Gilraen In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-12 22:32:55 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah... Well I knew that black horses can have a blue shine, but only under the right light (like sunlight~!). The pinto markings are just made of awesome... Just forgot to mention that last post.

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Murasaki99 In reply to Silverelf-Gilraen [2008-05-13 14:09:39 +0000 UTC]

A true black horse is a thing of beauty and rather rare. Horses that are dark bay or deep brown-black tend to have a red shine in the sun even though they look black to our eyes. has a great design sense for pintos.

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Silverelf-Gilraen In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-14 00:09:10 +0000 UTC]

You're not wrong there... Reckless just looks amazing.

Blacks are rather beautiful, but I really like palominos as well. Got a sentimental attachment to that particular colouring, mainly because the first horse I ever rode was a palomino.

Best behaved horse I've ever come across.

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Murasaki99 In reply to Silverelf-Gilraen [2008-05-14 04:01:29 +0000 UTC]

Palominos are lovely, too. I knew a wonderful palomino blanket appy who was such a fun character. Wonderful old horse.

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Silverelf-Gilraen In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-14 04:50:36 +0000 UTC]

I was going to ask for a Palomino blanket appy colt for Gilraen, but the black varnish roan appy won out. I was like 'omg don't make me choose!'

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Murasaki99 In reply to Silverelf-Gilraen [2008-05-21 05:19:31 +0000 UTC]

Heh-heh, the colt is here: [link] I think he turned out decently well.

Keep putting points into the Ride skill.

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Silverelf-Gilraen In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-21 10:07:14 +0000 UTC]

... I think I'm in love!

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Murasaki99 In reply to Silverelf-Gilraen [2008-05-22 01:48:46 +0000 UTC]

*Grins happily* Thankies! And thanks to Cat, who has good taste in selecting mares.

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Silverelf-Gilraen In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-22 12:13:55 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I know~! *waves her hand around*

Thankyou, Cat~! Lady Gilraen will take good care of your 'kitten'!

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Diinzumo [2008-05-12 04:08:13 +0000 UTC]

Very pretty. I love the painterly effect and the blue overlay on the black parts as well as the grey and subtle cream colors on the white. Are you going to do anything else with the background?

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Murasaki99 In reply to Diinzumo [2008-05-12 04:28:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I'm glad it came out looking decent, the black and white is a total challenge. *cracks knuckles* Um... the background? my brain ran out of inspiration, so I left it "open" rather than risk ruining it. A grey rainscape might look good -- I might try doing that on a separate layer and adding it later.

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Diinzumo In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-12 05:14:45 +0000 UTC]

Re. background: Yeah, I've been there and still am. You're rightβ€”a separate layer would be great because you don't run the risk of messing up the entire image if the background doesn't work out the way you like it.

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Murasaki99 In reply to Diinzumo [2008-05-13 03:33:37 +0000 UTC]

And I have this weird thing going where I just find it easier to compose the background as a separate piece from the foreground. Like animation backgrounds. It seems easier to me to attack the background as a complete painting or drawing and then add whatever is on/in the landscape.

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Diinzumo In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-13 05:37:36 +0000 UTC]

I don't think that's a weird thing. It makes perfect sense to me. Just so long as the final piece doesn't look like two separate images.

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Murasaki99 In reply to Diinzumo [2008-05-13 06:15:09 +0000 UTC]

So far, so good on that. I think. I used a layered background for Dark Water and Neeon, and the watercolor that I use for Morrow's part of Urcaen is a complete image.

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Diinzumo In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-13 13:33:55 +0000 UTC]

I remember the pastoral scene, but didn't realize you also did Dark Water that way. That turned out nice.

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Murasaki99 In reply to Diinzumo [2008-05-13 13:46:37 +0000 UTC]

Dark Water is constructed almost like a multiplane animation cel -- there is a background behind the horse, and then some layers of translucent color on top of the horse and background. Disney knew their stuff.

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Diinzumo In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-13 14:13:31 +0000 UTC]

Indeed. I love the whole transparent layer thing. I did some of that on "Daddy's Girl 2."

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Murasaki99 In reply to Diinzumo [2008-05-14 04:06:13 +0000 UTC]

And that had some lovely glow-effects!

Those layers really help for when we want to work on fixing/adding colors. It took me forever to realize how powerful layers can be, but now I'm a big fan of them.

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NewPlanComics [2008-05-12 02:44:43 +0000 UTC]

Love the horses natural patern. Very nicely done.

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Murasaki99 In reply to NewPlanComics [2008-05-12 03:03:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, I'm a sucker for pinto horses and this one has such pretty markings.

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NewPlanComics In reply to Murasaki99 [2008-05-12 05:00:43 +0000 UTC]

Pintos are pretty horses.

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1Narane1 [2008-05-12 02:20:01 +0000 UTC]

Whoa, for the moment, I thought it was a Photoshop work.

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Murasaki99 In reply to 1Narane1 [2008-05-12 02:30:18 +0000 UTC]

Thankies! Heh-heh, nope, just markers and some Paintshop Pro to tweak the colors. I haven't yet tried full digital inking. I have tried digital painting -- I'm very slow at it (then again, I'm not terribly fast with physical paints, either). I like the brush markers for a sort of sumi-e effect.

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