time wasting

[egypturnash]

So there's this thread on the Yerf forums, where the idea is that you toss up a few bits of line-art you never colored, and other people color it. I'd put a link up to my bus doodles directory, and a few people did some of mine with interesting results. I finally got around to doing someone else's art.

Only took a few hours. I have stuff I'd like to be working on for myself but I felt slackerly. And felt like sitting on my ass in front of the machine.

Original art by Thornwolf (yet another furclump detail type); my interpretation thereof. A couple other people had abused it with color before me but they'd just done airbrush under the inks. I especially like the way the hair ended upcompletely blown out against the background and some of the fur... figuring out how to drop out a lot of the detail was an interesting challenge, since the silhouette was pretty illegible.

Comments

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Much improved! :D

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Oooooo, cooooooooooool.

[wolphyn.livejournal.com]

I love that you have the vision to have ditched the linework instead of merely treating it like a page from a coloring book.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*nod* I didn't worry too much about ditching a lot of the details, either. I think one or two other people on that thread, at most, have done the same, where they used the other person's work as an underdrawing rather than a Finished Ink Layer... this is probably attributable both to the 'Beautiful Comic-Book Inks Are Good' vibe that pervades fandom, and the fact that the thread is titled 'Coloring Book'.

[defenbaugh.livejournal.com]

Fur clumps... lol.. must remember that term.

[amilori.livejournal.com]

I've finally figured out why your style always tweaks something in my brain to say 'this is familiar'. You remind me of the really good late 19th to early 20th century advertising prints. The (mostly) French posters that are being reproduced everywhere because the art is so strong and graphic and intensely colored.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The giant floating Noveau swirl gave it away, eh? ("Look out! There's a noveau accent LOOMING over you!")

The interesting thing is that it's me wandering into that territory mostly from second- or third-order influences. A few old comic strips from the turn of the century that had a distinct Noveau/Deco flavor, especially 'Little Nemo'. The 70's gilt-dripping Noveauness of Danny Frolich, who was (is?) the design lead at one of the two companies that build Mardi Gras floats during my youth. I've never really directly studied Noveau graphic art.

I've probably also been slightly influenced by some of the stuff that influenced the Noveau and Deco movements! Lovely flowy minimal Japanese wooducts and brushwork...

Closest I've come to direct study is a little bit of appreciation of Erté. But I have no books of his work in my library!

I don't really think of my style as noveau, but that seems to be the label that people most often want to apply.

I agree...

[(Anonymous)]

Looks very nouveau, absolutely: style, layout-even color, on this one. Can it be it doesn't seem so to the artist because she's so close to it? It's kind of surprising that she doesn't see it.
Very lovely work, whatever style it may invoke! : )

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

that color scheme makes me hungry

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

...hungry?

I originally started with a much more subdued color scheme I pulled from one of my books, but it was too... natural... to be doing a fluffy animal in cool greys. So I swapped it out (yay global swatches!) for a much less natural scheme from the same book, that I ultimately toned way down and further abused (global swatches still rule!) into the washed-out colors you see here.

I seem to have been doing a lot of pale, washed-out color schemes lately...

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

the colors make me think of salt water taffy, Brach's caramel penny candy, ye olde ice cream parlor, annnnd various other late victorian/turn o' the century things. dunno. i get that kind of old sweet tooth vibe. i'd have to make a picture myself to explain.

[dustmeat.livejournal.com]

Peggy, you rock.

[thornwolf.livejournal.com]

I love the coloring job you've done with my drawing but I can't help but feel a little insulted by the way you referred to my art. =(