Art: All Alone (Severus, COLOURED *squee*, G)

[jateshi]

Title: All Alone
Artist: jateshi
Character: Severus Snape
Rating: G
Status: The coloured version of this image of Severus. With a marker-done gradiated background so...COMPLETED!
Warnings: Excessive buttons? Severus' frosty glare?
Comments: Experimenting with a new method of colouring hair, and I think this one's a keeper. Overall - smashingly happy with this one. *_* Which, let me tell you, is really rare. (Be on the lookout for more coloured/completed art soon!)




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Comments

[callisto-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. This looks great! I really like your new method of colouring hair (how did you do it, by the way? I don't use markers but I want to see if I could possibly adapt this new method so that it could work with coloured pencils).

The shading on his clothing is also very good too -- and of course, no picture of Snape is complete is Snape does not have a suitably frostly glare. ;)

I just want to say that I know the background is supposed to be a gradient of Slytherin colours -- but after a moment my mind got the idea that Snape culd be standing in a field somewhere with a grey sky. Maybe my mind's just making things up, but that's what I saw. Great work Jateshi -- this looks really good!

[jateshi.livejournal.com]

*snugs* Long time no hear-from, Kodomo!

The hair - I looked at Pu-sama's artwork and Snapesnoger's for suggestions of ways to manipulate the markers. Then I started with the lightest colour (which actually isn't even visible even more) and coated the area I wanted the highest light hit from. Next I slowly worked darker in two-tone shades (for example 30% grey then 50% grey) and to blend between them I used the 30 again as well as mixing a 40 in. And then I built the colours up over the coure of about two hours using the same general idea. >> I think it'd translate easily in to colour pencils since the way of building a particular shade is the same concept, ne?

:3 Thanks so much! The background was actually the hardest thing to do because making a seamless blend from one colour to a completely different one is mind bogglingly hard. x_x I just wish the scan could capture how *rich* the greens are, compared to the rest of the piece.