Art & Prose from Lady Norémon

Originally posted on November 6th, 2011 @
04:27PM at { http://ls-cassius.livejournal.com/2011/11/06/ }

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( *The dirigible catching on fire and crashing.* )

A dapper Napstablook.

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{ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTL2n4M8NEY }

I bought ArtRage for Android months ago and I've been doing a few 600x600 doodles (one isn't) with my finger on my Samsung Galaxy S5 using it. Here are 5 of them.

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Sleeping Nicolas:


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Erk:


"I doodled an Erk the next day. [Erk is my favourite #FireEmblem character]"

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Paola Luciani's Oedipa:


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Erthor:


"Erthor. I was awful to him in #Oblivion today. Did Azura's Shrine and locked him behind the rock passage way with the remaining 2 vampires. I just couldn't kill the orc one so I let Erthor wittle him down in-between repeatedly getting "knocked unconscious"."

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Hedgehog in a top hat for @JeremyCShipp:


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"It was perfectly normal for May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide."

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"But Howl turned to Sophie just then. "Grey doesn't really suit you," he said. "I thought that when I first saw you." 
"Calcifer’s gone," Sophie said. "I had to break your contract." 
 Howl looked a little sad, but he said, "We were both hoping you would. Neither of us wanted to end up like the Witch and Miss Angorian. Would you call your hair ginger?" 
"Red gold," Sophie said."

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From "Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones

I wanted to draw doodles of Frederick, Elise, Mila, Flora, Robert, et cetera, et cetera. But my tablet driver & my laptop don't get along sometimes (my tablet is a 2007 Bamboo Fun CTE-450), and when I started drawing Alfred, things got choppy. Checking the Wacom Preferences confirmed my suspicions. I'm not up to restartng my laptop right now (I worry about my portable Skype getting borked by Microsoft every time I exit it/sign-in), so here is just 3. And the labelling with my trackpad.



The fullsize of that can be viewed by opening the image URL in a new tab, or going through the link to the Scrapbook route.

Back months ago I tried installing Corel Painter 12 on my laptop, after having not used Corel Painter in years [though I used their WordPerfect (that came with my Dell desktop) as the last non-Apache OpenOffice sucked working with my custom dictionary]. I really cannot remember what settings I used for this Kaido Kio picture, but I liked how pigmented the brushes were. Anyway I've wanted to draw some things and thought I'd try installing it again (despite it being arduous in my zoomed-in resolution).

Here are a few tests with different programs, and I still prefer OpenCanvas 3.03e & MyPaint for faux watercolour, as they mix more realistically (when I have a wet colour and drag it into another still wet colour, I expect them to mix, and the bottom colour to follow what path I take the brush in). I don't like the amount of white in OC's watercolour brush though, which is why I work on Multiply layers.

Original, sketched quick in ArtRage 2.6:


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The colours I used for the outfit are from my default Zinnian palette, the red & brownish being from his earrings.

OpenCanvas 3.03e:


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Corel Painter 12.1.0.1213:


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Krita 2.8 Pre-Alpha:


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MyPaint 1.0.0:


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GIMP 2.8.14:


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ArtRage 2.6 (Marker):


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MS Paint Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1 7601 (with an OC Multiply layer):


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I really disliked Krita. It saved the layered file I painted in as corrupted so I lost all that work. The developers removed all previous versions because they didn't want someone running it on Windows XP (despite it working on it). I couldn't figure-out how to use the eyedropper tool to select a colour from one image (my Zinnian palette) to use on the image I was colouring [ended-up pasting the palette as a Multiply layer and selecting from that in the corner]. And closing one file caused the whole program to close. I hate Windows 7's MS Paint, and have only used it a few times--I use the Paint XP program (especially since most of my MS Paint usage is to save ALT+Print Screen screenshots, and to edit pixels) instead! I have ArtRage 3 Studio Pro 3.5, but I've not tried much of it to see how it's for faux watercolour. I don't even have it installed on the laptop since the Windows reinstall, as I use ArtRage for pencil & marker sketching, and I much prefer the open workspace of 2.6 & how the canvas is set-up as a background in it. It's a shame 2.6 doesn't offer anything but acrylic/oil painting, as I ♥♥♥♥ how real most of their tools look.

When I 'watercolour' digitally, I usually take a traditional drawing or one with pencil in ArtRage 2.6, open it in OpenCanvas 3.03e, and paint over it using Multiply players & adjusting it's Watercolour tool. I usually then paste the finished image over a Multiply layer of a paper texture, usually also with a Multiply layer of the original sketch to make the lineart more pronounced.

I have an old version of PaintTools SAI I've not tried installing on the laptop, but if I do I'll add what I colour with it to here too. If I had more energy I'd print-off the lineart & paint it with physical watercolours too, to show a comparison--I just wish I still had my set of high pigment Grumbacher watercolours. The set I have now has a higher amount of white filler to it, and I dislike it. I don't do much traditional art now because of the difficulties with scanning the colour blue, which is a colour I often use a lot of. And now I have the whole hand issue too, but the fat tablet pen is easier to hold than pencils/pens.

August 15TH is the day I picked for Alexander's birthday all those years ago. Making him a Leo, and peridot his birthstone (lime green is his favourite colour anyway).

I am wearing my Three Doge Moon t-shirt today, so figured I might as well draw him in it.

[I had to reinstall my tablet, ArtRage, and what-not as I reinstalled Windows on my laptop. I haven't got my printers/scanner set-up yet, so the program I use for cropping isn't on yet]

So since I drew William for his birthday [April 13TH], here are the twins on theirs. And also my first ever attempt to draw Maria. I'm really fond of these two, and though I don't think on this AU much now, I would think of them having little adventures. I am also proud that I drew these on the same page and didn't have to resize either of them or move them around~



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The teacups are based on Sally Webster's mugs from "Coronation Street". I will post a screenshot of them when I find an episode with a good shot of them, but I've always been fond of them since Rosie was still dating Jason. The Country Store bulk & health food store in Greenwood has a little teapot decorated like them too. You can kind of see them in this .GIF post & this .GIF post, but only briefly. [I actually had this post ready at 10:00PM-ish, but have been looking for a screenshot of them :/ ]

And Daphne's dress is based-off the one here. And her shoes are based-off these.


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Maria:


She's a Corvus mellori [little raven]!

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The original sketch thing:


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The tea drinking scene is because I was thinking of this art I drew for Helen years ago.

The Second Doctor, The Third Doctor, & The Eighth Doctor~♫

Here is a drawing I drew of Lorel in 2010 from when I first played The Jack-of-Smiles storyline. The Watchmaker's Hill one. I found a Draft this week in my GMail of something I wrote of her dealing with a Jack, but nervous about posting it on the ls_cassius Journal. Anyway; Lorel has 10 Annoyance to the Jack-of-Smiles, over 80 Petrified Humnan Hearts, and so many damn Diamonds from this time.



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