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Published: 2007-12-14 00:16:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 306; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 12
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I'm back!Took a... LONG time. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it was really cool to make.
Materials: Ballpoint Pen, Watercolor, Pencil, Sharpie.
The picture is too big for my scanner, so a few things got cut off on the top...
Also, it still doesn't feel done to me, so if you have any suggestions I need them!
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Oh-Its done! Wonderful work! Chaotic and dangerous and kinda cute too
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Hahaha, yeah! Thats actually a great description.
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Thanks! I usually shy away from doing them, honestly.
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Thats cool! I'd love to see some more, you should post em'.
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I see it's that time in the evening when the night monkeys have come out to play...
If you cut that whole left side with its grayscale half tones, the right side with its solid blacks and solid whites works perfectly; if you keep that grayscale side, you might want to go into your white background with some of the same grayscale approach...
No matter what you decide, the creatures' movements, gestures, and spacial relationships to one another AND the way you've constructed them is just flat-out wonderful; the night monkeys have triumphed again...
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Wow thanks, thats really helpful actually! 
I knew there was something off about it, but I got impatient and posted it anyway. 
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It's a great piece, and it strikes me as bringing some of your major strengths as an artist into a somewhat more ambitious (in a good way) composition; even though you were FORCED, I think this is a really cool development in your work...
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Yeah, sometimes I need to be forced.
I was gonna put another building on the right, but it felt too squished... hmm.
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This is totally, totally up to you, and the bad thing about forcing is that it can take the fun out of it, and if it aint fun, it aint gonna look like the magic that you've got going on in your gallery now. But if you want to screw around with little ideas like that, sometimes it's a good idea to put a piece of tracing paper over what you've already done, and then start adding those elements you sense could be of use to the image; if you like what you see on the tracing paper, you just draw lines on the tracing paper to indicate how it fits with your already finished work, spread some lead shavings from a pencil sharpener on the side of the tracing paper where your drawing isn't, smear that around with some rubber cement thinner or lighter fluid, let it dry, and then place it back on your original drawing (with maybe some tissue paper protecting the drawing from the pencil lead wash; the rubber cement thinner or lighter fluid should keep the lead from smearing, but just in case...) using the lines you drew on the tracing paper to register it back up to where you want this new element to go; then you just transfer what's on your tracing paper by drawing over those lines again with a hard (I use a 9H) pencil lead...
Okay. If that just COMPLETELY takes the fun and spontaneity out of it, then don't even give it a try; but this is basically the way I develop a pencil drawing before I transfer it on to illustration board, canvas, or masonite-- it's just a way to make your mistakes on a page that you can feel free to erase on (or start over) without ruining what's already gone right, or marring the surface of your finished piece with an eraser...
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Woah thank you, I'm gonna have to write that down! I guess I was sort of half-kidding when I said she FORCED me, it's an illustration class that puts a lot of importance on drafts... so I get teased/pestered a lot, but she means well. 
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LIGHTER FLUID?
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That thing you get with just sitting down with your pen and drawing, that's your raw talent out there dancing, and you've got a ton of it; if you find yourself enjoying planning out a piece that you can then spontaneously set that raw talent of yours out on to-- there's absolutely nothing you can't do.
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Thank you sooooo much!
This is my third year at at an art school, 3 art classes a day... the first two years were ALL realism. I'm VERY stubborn.
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And brilliant; that's a tough combination to beat...
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