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Love of War :HMC - Howl: by ~ScatterbrainFox:iconScatterbrainFox:

Categories Manga/Anime > Traditional Media > Fan Art Drawings

©2005-2009 ~ScatterbrainFox
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Artist's Comments

I thought I loved Howl with blond/red messy hair the most.
But Bird/Demon/Whatever Howl pwned both of them and rocks my socks XD

Drawing and -even more- coloring this was pure joy. The feathers took a lot of patience which I usually don't have at all but I actually enjoyed doing them over and over again when they didn't come out like I wanted them.
It killed my ultramarine blue copic marker, but GOD, how I LOVE the coloring of his feathers. Yeah that's self-praise.

I know he doesn't actually have slitted pupils, but they're sexy. You know it. So there, enjoy. ;p

Criticism:
- He doesn't have a half face because I'm lazy or avoiding, but because the pic was originally intended to show only HALF of his face.
- His shoulders are too small, right? Dammit. I still have problems deciding the width of the shoulders
- the wings are anatomically not correct. Who cares? Or rather... who actually SEES that? :o
- The Nose was SO MUCH NICER in the sketch ;_;


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Title :: Taken from the Original Soundtrack of Howl's Moving Castle
Time used :: many hours
Media :: Pencil, Staedtler and Faber Castell Ink Pens, Copic Ciao Markers, Watercolor
Sketch :: [link]
Photoshop to pimp up the Background color-wise :D

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~GuardianBellaluna Sep 9, 2005, 5:47:02 PM
awwwwwsome!!!

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~ScatterbrainFox Sep 9, 2005, 5:48:19 PM
thank you! XD also for the :+fav:

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~travisuped Sep 9, 2005, 6:48:40 PM
O_O I love those wings! I must have them! *dives at the computer*
(is it just me, or does the eyeball seem a tiny bit flat?)

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~ScatterbrainFox Sep 9, 2005, 7:03:14 PM
heh, glad you like the wings. They were a lot of fun work and I love how they turned out as well :)
A flat eyeball.... I guess it is a bit flat, yes. I don't know what to do to improve that though o_O; I mean I shaded the eye below the upper eyelid and put in a light reflection point, but what else can I do?

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~ScatterbrainFox Sep 9, 2005, 7:04:12 PM
thank you! I decided to give him those pupils because they just look much more cooler and...bestial xD

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~amade Sep 9, 2005, 9:03:08 PM
Cheat! You hid the face. :laughing: Jes' kiddin'. You certainly put a lot of effort in this one.

The white outline for his shoulder just doesn't work for me. Everything else has colour and it tends to stick out at you. A general rule for judging shoulder width is that it should be one head's length from the middle of the neck to the end of the shoulder. After measuring it, it's mising about one or two inches in length but nothing too critical.

The skin is just too bright. I think the nose would look a lot better if the shadow is more pronounced but it may result in a more realistic look than an anime look. It looks like you're going for realistic anyway. Simply put, I think you're using a too limited pallete for the skin tones.

The feathers... Even though you like it, I think it should have some lighter tones in it. The texture looks more like leaves rather than feathers to me ^^;

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~ScatterbrainFox Sep 9, 2005, 9:19:25 PM
I was afraid the white outline of the shoulder would be distracting... forgot to color over it later, whoops.

You think the shoulder is okay? I actually used the trick you told me, I heard of it very often but even when I use it I'm unsure whether it's okay. >_<;

The Skin was a annoying. Howl's quite pale and I wanted to keep it like that in the pic. That's the problem. Shading darker skin isn't as problematic as shading pale skin :faint: I have no idea how to do that.
The nose was once darker, but since I disliked it so much as soon as I colored/shaded it, I toned it down again because it seemed so strikingly bad to me ^^;

After writing all this, I think I just can't trust my eye. Whenever I try something of which I know it should be 'right' like darker shading or proportional rules, my eyes won't accept it. Seems like I have a loooooong way to go until my eyes get used to that ^^;

At first there were supposed to be lighter tones in the feathers, but it just didn't look that good. Even though I have quite some markers, my palette is limited and there's not really any kind of blue that would've worked here. Leaving it white was another option, but I'm not good at it and messed the first few feathers up real bad. So I just made everything blue without leaving any white and ended up liking it :XD:
To make it look more realistic, I thought about using light pencils or gouache (or whatever would've worked) to suggest the veins of the feathers. In the end I did not do that because I thought I would probably mess it up and since I liked it I felt no need to change it. It's fine with me if they look simple, I think one can guess it's feathers, and if not I'm not mad :laughing.

well, thanks again for your criticism :)

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~amade Sep 9, 2005, 9:32:12 PM
Aye, the nose is always a bother. I'm reading a chapter right now about rendering believable skin tones. It's a book on colour pencils though, but it points out some key pointers in colouring skin. If I buy a scanner sometime tommorow maybe I can show you some pages of it ;)

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