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Drawn for a Secret Santa gift exchange at college. Experimented with greyscale coloring and overlaying colors in Photoshop. Part of me would like to think that the facial features of some of these would have come out better had I not been forced to use only a mouse, but maybe I was just out of practice. The last time I colored anything digitally was about two years ago, and it was the Peace picture. The faces definitely improved the more I worked on this, so the mouse probably isn't to blame after all. But either way, the recipient liked this a lot, which is the important thing.


Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS4 + mouse

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I can't say any art is bad, because art is art. I think the faces look a bit creepy in a bad way and the colors are very unnatural and smeared together. It looks like a mess I think if you put it together a little differently it may have looked more attractive to the first impression eyes.

krissalus responds:

Like I said, kinda had to get back into practice and get used to digitally coloring with a mouse, hence the messy faces. I do agree that a few of them are... less than pleasing, but I had a deadline so no time for tweaking, unfortunately. As for the actual colors, they're smeared because I used the gradient tool. I didn't want it to have sharply defined stripes running across it. And yeah, they're unnatural colors, but I picked them because the person I drew it for happens to like them. Probably should have explained that in the author comment.

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Jan 12, 2011
4:51 PM EST
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