Calcifer

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I found a .PDF of "Howl's Moving Castle" so I have been re-reading it while brainstorming for fandom_stocking & to try to form my previous Howl/pregnant!Sofie fanfic.



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“On the other hand,” Sophie continued, looking into the orange flames, “if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.”

“Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire.
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On reading I got an urge to paint Calcifer, so I installed ArtRage 2**, and after some work I got my tablet installed on R-2E-054 too. This is going to make doing more like this so much easier. Sitting in a comfy chair in a nice warm kitchen, instead of freezing while sitting at my cramped table.

This is after I "Transformed All Layers" in ArtRage 2 just to move it to screenshot it as smooth. I also added a layer of 25% Soft Light in orange [in OpenCanvas 3.03e] because he looked too cold. I went by the novels' desciption of him, but in my head I have a more combined image of the anime movie & the novel. I love taka0801's version.

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( Fullsize! )

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( Smoothing before orange )

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( Orange without smoothing )

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**{ http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/artrage_2_free_edition.html } ← The free edition. I have the full version.

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The .PDF { http://www.mediafire.com/view/tkkl34fxn3eepfo } ← "Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones