A Rose - colours by microUgly

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A Rose
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Coloured in GIMP. I think it's fair to say that I don't know how to colour hair, but I'm really satisfied with the colouring on her skin--especially since I don't know muscle well so I kinda faked it.

The lighting I've created is very much inspired by ~rust2ds photography.

See black and white version at [link]

kalaadrius Featured By Owner Jan 23, 2009

Smoothness of this work is awesome. And the use of colors is inspiring. Good to read you did this in GIMP, hopefully I can achieve similar smooth coloring with that program (someday)

microUgly Featured By Owner Jan 23, 2009

I've done very few colourings like this (4, I think). I found in the last two that the best trick for smoothness is to start shading with a very large brush then reduce it's size if you need to. If you start with a brush too small you'll find yourself scribbling the colour on and it's impossible to get a smooth result.

kalaadrius Featured By Owner Jan 24, 2009

Sounds like a good advice, thanks

bolsterstone Featured By Owner Dec 14, 2008 General Artist

The hair turned out fine enough, old bean. And, both versions of this one are excellent.

microUgly Featured By Owner Dec 14, 2008

Thanks for the comments. I'm glad my issues with her hair aren't as obvious to others. I think I just had a different look in mind that I couldn't reproduce.