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Published: 2012-11-30 20:43:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 6079; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 0
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Description This is for Trichardsen's ([link] ) Make It Cold contest ([link] ). (UPDATE: Yay! I won!) The idea was just to convey the idea of coldness...Trichardsen lives in the north of Norway, and takes amazing pictures of the Northern lights, among other things. It was done as usual in GIMP on a Bamboo Fun tablet.

I had to rush a bit because the deadline is today, and we had a very busy Thanksgiving holiday, with not much time for drawing. So it's missing the ominous mountain landscape I had intended to include. But I hope you can still feel this poor girl shiver.
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CloneClox9999 [2016-09-15 20:24:22 +0000 UTC]

Watch your step. D:

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outsidelogic In reply to CloneClox9999 [2016-10-02 19:05:25 +0000 UTC]

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sukinova777 [2015-09-07 13:27:45 +0000 UTC]

YUP! Β I definitely feel cold when I look at this one! lol Β Great job!

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outsidelogic In reply to sukinova777 [2015-09-07 15:54:46 +0000 UTC]

Ha, thank you!

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H-SWilliams [2013-03-15 12:09:23 +0000 UTC]

Now that looks really freezing. I rather like that the water's basically black, I think it makes it feel extra cold and foreboding. The bikini is so bright and summery it provides great contrast to the scenario too.

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outsidelogic In reply to H-SWilliams [2013-03-16 20:33:35 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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Pimsleurable [2012-12-06 01:35:03 +0000 UTC]

A dip in there should retard the aging process

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outsidelogic In reply to Pimsleurable [2012-12-06 04:50:53 +0000 UTC]

Haha. Or end it. Thanks for looking. Now I know where to go if I need a flag designed.

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Pimsleurable In reply to outsidelogic [2012-12-06 04:55:59 +0000 UTC]

I appreciate your enthusiasm.

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Clockhound [2012-12-02 19:34:13 +0000 UTC]

Nice job! I would NOT want to be doing what she's doing. I'm glad you won!
You use color so well... I'm so jealous.

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outsidelogic In reply to Clockhound [2012-12-02 21:21:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, Emily. I still think I've got a long way to go with color, but I guess I'm making progress...

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Clockhound In reply to outsidelogic [2012-12-02 22:37:10 +0000 UTC]

Well obviously you're doing well, if you won a contest

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ansdesign [2012-12-02 16:13:52 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations by winning the "Make it cold" contest!

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outsidelogic In reply to ansdesign [2012-12-02 17:02:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. You have some gorgeous photos in your gallery.

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ansdesign In reply to outsidelogic [2012-12-03 10:49:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for your compliment!

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Melalina [2012-12-02 16:08:08 +0000 UTC]

This made me cold. Congratulations on the win.

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outsidelogic In reply to Melalina [2012-12-02 17:08:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. Regarding your sig: Yes! The Hobbit in less than 2 weeks. My whole family is going to the midnight show in costume. I'll be working on my Gandalf costume today

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Melalina In reply to outsidelogic [2012-12-02 17:52:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I remember you. You're that "Weird Sisters From Macbeth" guy.

I wish I had friends to go see The Hobbit with, but no one I know likes Tolkien stuff. I've been obsessed with him for years. I hope anticipation and expectations won't kill the movie for me. I haven't decided which show I want to go to, but certainly not a midnight show in this neighborhood or any other. It really doesn't matter because I'm going to see it 50 times anyway. I'm still watching LOTR DVDs. And, while I'm sitting in a tub of hot water soaking away muscle pains, I'm listening to LOTR on CDs. (How pathetic am I?)

It sounds like you're going to have extra fun. Costumes? WOW! What a fun family.

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outsidelogic In reply to Melalina [2012-12-02 18:39:11 +0000 UTC]

Haha...yep, that's me. That's my most popular drawing I think. LOTR...yeah...I'll send you a note...no need to clutter up these comments with LOTR-fandom.

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Houkou-NRL [2012-12-01 00:32:38 +0000 UTC]

The transition from waist to hip feels a little exaggerated for what you've got going here, and something's a little odd about her left arm and wrist, but your anatomy is really good otherwise. I'm sure your water could benefit from a little more colour and life as well, as the colouration has it feeling more like oil or something. Beside those things, I'd love to see the mountains you had planned if you revisited this, but I'm pretty darn bias as far as that goes.

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outsidelogic In reply to Houkou-NRL [2012-12-01 02:07:36 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the thoughtful criticism. You're spot on about the water. I don't really know how to render it well. If this darned contest wasn't over Thanksgiving I would have taken time to dive deeper into it (haha). Interesting thing about the anatomy. I don't disagree with you (I've always had a harder time with female anatomy for some reason), but I also wonder if we, as artists, sometimes work too hard to portray ideal bodies. Y'know, sometimes I see a picture and think "her legs are too short" or something, and then I catch myself and realize that bodies come in a pretty wide variety of proportions.

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Houkou-NRL In reply to outsidelogic [2012-12-01 04:54:32 +0000 UTC]

Regarding water, I honestly don't have much experience with it myself (why do I smell some studies coming up?), but going over a few tutorials is probably a good way to go. From there, you can work from observation to further improve your technique.

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Thesis-D [2012-11-30 21:59:33 +0000 UTC]

Actually, the picture not having a mountain landscape works too; it makes the frigid coldness appear more desolate, isolated, and alone, which also works metaphorically for the figure. Nice proportions on the woman; alot better than I can do without a great deal of effort. I really need to start practicing proper anatomy instead of stylizing it or just winging it and hoping it comes out ok; I've dodged bullets so far, but eventually it will catch up with me...

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outsidelogic In reply to Thesis-D [2012-11-30 22:12:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I actually had one of my daughters pose for it (in her pajamas, not in a bikini, so I had to get a little creative), so I could get the basic position right. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to capture that position. I had her stand on a chair and dip a foot down and asked her to pretend she was really cold. That's where the arm position came from.

I learned basic anatomy by copying superheroes out of comic books when I was a teen.

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Thesis-D In reply to outsidelogic [2012-11-30 22:19:46 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. You're lucky to have someone be able to pose for you personally. There is also stock here on DA that makes for good references.

What comic books were you in to?

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outsidelogic In reply to Thesis-D [2012-11-30 22:31:19 +0000 UTC]

I was a Marvel guy, mainly in the 70's. My intro was Fantastic Four, but I eventually got into X-Men (that whole series that was an Alien rip-off was really good), Barry Smith's Conan, an obscure title called Deathlok, Jim Starlin's King-Fu, and I always liked Silver Surfer, because he was so philosophical. I also read those oversize Creepy and Eerie magazines, which generally had really good art.

I do need to check out the stock stuff here. This is an excellent source of stock photos that I've been using: [link]

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Thesis-D In reply to outsidelogic [2012-11-30 23:06:17 +0000 UTC]

Nice.

For having grown up during the 80s and early 90s, where alot of these comic book series became tv cartoon series, I didn't get as into the actual comics as I would have thought I would, given the ample exposure to them. I think I had a hard time, as a kid, following the continuity of a comic; there are lots of different characters and stories and comics to keep track of; too many, that I had a hard time choosing a story and sticking with it. I was never a collector or anything like that either, so as much as I enjoyed it as a kid in cartoon form, looking back on it, the comic part seemed wasted on me. But then again, I was just a small kid at the time.

As a teen I was reintroduced to comics through manga and anime, and that little kid in me came alive again, and that's when I started taking my art skills a little more seriously, which had been dormant since childhood. This took place in 2000-2001 or so, so I haven't been drawing with any sort of focus for that long, actually. I think I've come a long way in a short amount of time, though.

Yeah, there is alot of untapped stock for people to use on this site, whether for ideas and inspiration or for actual references.

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