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SciFi and Fantasy Art: PracticeWater-soluble colored pencil. I'm actually fond of these as tools. In this case, I did brush work post coloring (as opposed to getting the pencil wet before use). I used some light pencil on the paper to outline her... nice heavy sketch paper. I should go study actual swordsfolk at play to see if they ever do this in anything but silly posing... | |
 |  |  | |  Categories: [Body Study] [Fights, Duels, Battles] [Warrior, Fighter, Mercenary, Knights, Paladins] [Weapons, Bows, Swords, Blades, Rapiers...] [Woman, Women]
Techniques: [Coloured Pencils] [Watercolour]
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| | | | | Date | Name | Comment | | | 5 Oct 2001 |  Christiaan, A.Iken | I love the simplicity and strong lines, there arent any extraneous detailing but its a wonderful simple drawing.And really well drawn on closer inspection. | |
| 6 Oct 2001 | Deborah L. R. Dixon | You're good with the poses. You manage to give it a sense of movement. You can feel her arm swinging back and the weight is distributed correctly with her legs. You even mange to get the slight leaning back of the torso. And all that with very simple lines. wow. Nice work. | |
| 11 Nov 2001 |  Rosemary Jennifer Wong | Oooh nice. I like the colours! and the pose is nice too. I like the composition of this piece as well, gives nice flow lines  Only thing (and this is totally personal preference so feel free to ignore) I'd love to see nice dark outlines maybe try black ink after the colour work   Kir talmage-barnes replies: "kjt adds > That's a neat suggestion. It's not at all what I was after here, but I do some illustrations like that. I'll see what I can do about getting something of that up. It's a technique one of my favorite children's books illustrators uses. Her names escapes me just now (Trish something?), although I can bring her lovely colorful, sketchy work to mind... but anyway." | |
| 11 Nov 2001 | Regina | OOOh! Just wonderful! | |
| 9 Mar 2002 |  Coen de Moor | Good pose. I like girls with swords. You have a sword too?  Kir talmage-barnes replies: "kjt adds: I don't have a sword, actually. I did take fencing for about a quarter in college, and I've done about as much martials arts. I've hacked around with padded weapons a bit, but pretty much went with memory of other images and people. It'd be great to learn, oh, sabre or something, but with what time? Let me know if you find some extra time around I can use..." | |
| 20 Mar 2002 | Elin Maria Bugge | I like the placement of the feet and the overall composition here.  Kir talmage-barnes replies: "kjt adds: Thank you." | |
| 2 Aug 2005 | Roderick de Jong | Well, cleaning up the sketch was one of the things I was thinking about ;-) And perhaps fixing the highlight  Other than that, it's pretty much finished (looks good on a white background). But you can always do photoshop experiments on the digital version, when you're bored :-P | |
| 2 Aug 2005 | Roderick de Jong | * agrees with all the above comments * And I agree with your choice for water-soluble coloured pencils, I find it pretty much impossible to create details with brushes alone... by the way, is that a flower in her hair? Oh, and one useful comment (I hope): you may want to edit the scanned image in Photoshop a little bit - this one's definitely worth it.  Kir talmage-barnes replies: "kjt adds > Hey, thanks! It's great to have a new visitor.
The flower-looking purplish bit was meant, if I recall correctly, to be a highlight I think. What sorts of P'shopping edits did you have in mind? In my mind, this particular pic is an experimental sketch... the sort of thing I'd put in my Scraps section over at deviantArt if I got 'round to it. Which, now that I think of it, maybe I'll do. I suppose, if I were creating something I meant to finish, I'd've put much more into experimenting with brush and pencil pressure, and cleaned up the scan at least. Or maybe tried digital painting it. Hurm. *scurries off to think and doodle a bit*" | |
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