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Flaming Juneby *Vaporeon249

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Traditional media for me is lots of love, and lots of hate. Things like aquarels (watercolor pencil crayons), oil, oil pastels and actual pencils and india ink I'm just plain bad at. Of my primaries, I carry the Chartpak Markers, tubed watercolors, Prismacolor pencil crayons and this example of stunning beauty and rarity, the colored acrylic well inks. (Can do pastels, acrylic, and charcoal well, but don't carry them at the moment.) Too bad I never get to show any of it.

I picked my favorite Moltres, Flaming June for this. She goes by 'Moltres' normally and is the one that follows my Mewthree, Mewblade around through her three novels. June/Moltres is of a positive demeanor and more outgoing than the other two Legendary Birds. Of course, did inks for her since it is a true show of color, and to flatter her goofy pose and laugh. Just love her smile, and the insanely detailed, dynamic fire. Stark, high contrast and makes me just plain happy.

The one thing I like about colored inks is that they are insanely bright (it takes multiple washes to get a watercolor to this level, and inks only need one, but need to be majorly water downed to calm their hues in contrast). They also blend better than the markers, but not as well as the watercolors. All mediums have their pluses and negatives. I know most people don't use these, but they're so much better than markers (cheaper, blend easier) and wish more people would use them. (Sailor Moon fans, those manga covers were done with colored ink wells for the characters, to note.)

(And, yes I gave Moltres a big fat Moltres butt because Moltres have big, fat behinds anyway.)

Ballpoint, Colored Inks

~Flamerose2000 Jun 13, 2012 Student Artist

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~thefireknight2008 May 12, 2012

Nice work again

I would like to paint with acrylics but I think that I'm better with graphite pencils, mostly if it's realistic

*Vaporeon249 May 13, 2012

Thank you for the compliment. These are actually water soluble inks, though their full title includes the word "acrylic". Although if you're speaking out of that context, then acrylics, while interesting to work with are just plain expensive. Stick with the graphite.

~PsyLady May 12, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Its a really pretty outcome. I think you did very well with blending the different red tones of the fire.

*Vaporeon249 May 12, 2012

It sort of does the blending itself, in a way as it is pretty forgiving about it.

~PsyLady May 12, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Still nice.

~SHhiro May 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

That's so beautiful vaporeon! I have to say that I love your traditionals. You are defently not bad at using watercolors, you use it very well. This is actually very inspiring. Interessting that the fire around her also makes me think of blood though. Was that intentional?

*Vaporeon249 May 11, 2012

Love my traditionals too, since it is so nice to open a sketchbook to colored work than black and white lined work as I normally do. This image isn't watercolors though, it's inks, all of it. Watercolors must be laid down repeatedly and are much harder to get bold colors with at onset (eventually the layering becomes obvious and they really struggle at such brightness anyway). Inks need to be massively water saturated to get even a remotely light wash, and it's still hard to tame their vibrant nature. Basically though, they are bold and have very solid gradients. Watercolors are usually more washy looking. Hard to tell if you're not familiar with either.
It was a bit more of a splatter effect than I would have liked it to look but if I had aimed for blood it would be a much more solid, deeper red and I would have had flecks of red all over the place to represent spray. Unfortunately a Moltres' fire (which is normally red and white anyway) is not the best thing to portray such a fire with. Could definitely see what you meant.

~SHhiro May 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I have tested a little bit of everything when it comes to coloring but not ink, I think I heard of it though. When you mention it, this coloring are actually quite stronger then watercolors. I wasen't thinking of the blood (if it was blood) as "splash" rather like it's flow was sort of controlled by a force around her, just like the fire seems to be. Anyhow in my point of wiew it just made the drawing more interessting to look at. I love when the artist leave something to the wiewer to ponder about. It makes my thoughts varies for the picture to. Whit some arts I can almost discover new things everytime I look at it, even depending on the mood I am in.

*Vaporeon249 May 11, 2012

Colored inks behave sort of like watercolors. And since their end results are quite a bit like markers, then some likely opt for the markers instead since it's far cleaner and faster. Maybe it's just the availability/prevalence. I notice that a lot of stores here in Poland carry watercolors and aquarelles more so than anything else, which makes me wonder what you could possibly try since I have the impression that mediums like graphic markers, pencil crayons, and inks are extremely hard to come by in Europe (as are getting decent paint mediums are in Canada outside of acrylic).

It's more of a graphical fire than a proper flame. Really suck at drawing fire properly, so didn't really bother at that point.

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