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©2006-2009 ~artgeektopia
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Gouache and I... we have this love/hate thing going on. I paint and paint and paint, and it looks worse and worse and worse, until I'm so mad at it that I want to throw it out the window, then it says to me "Just kidding!! :heart:" and all of a sudden, it starts looking pretty good. Then things start falling apart, and the cycle continues.

The trick is, stopping when I'm on an up-swing.

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P.S. Someone tell me what happened to my digital painting skills, cause they seem to have been left far behind. Hmm. Good thing I'm taking a digital illustration class next semester. Get some good practice in.

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:iconlevdir:
Recombinant DNA to the rescue!

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Omnia mutator.
:iconartgeektopia:
Isn't it amazing? If I had a choice between a fluffy bunny and one crossed with a lizard...
:iconlevdir:
Hells yes.

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Omnia mutator.
:iconpunkflock:
I think you work fantasticly with gouache!
You seem to have a good style going <3

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Flock
:iconjo1day:
Me loves the background as well as the character. And, seriously, anyone who has the guts to love a lizard bunny deserves a big part in her own novel.

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Joanna Huffaker

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:iconjo1day:
Oh, and digital painting? Um . . . yeah, I guess you just need to practice at it and experiment with different things that you like. I mean, the ultra-smudgy, oh-my-goodness smooth style of painting is *ok*, but everybody does it. (Playing with the brushins in photoshop is fun!)

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Joanna Huffaker

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:iconartgeektopia:
hehe yeah. I actually learned some new things in PhotoShop the other day. Like different techniques for making your own brushes.

So I might start playing around with that when I get some time.
:iconartgeektopia:
Actually, this idea sprang up rather up rather oddly from how I normally think up ideas.

Usually, I'm sitting there, trying to think up something and someone near me says something like "skull" and then I say "Oh I know! I'll paint a demon-fighting pilot guy!" Or they say "Paint a fish!" and I'll reply "Ooh. I'll paint a lady underwater, about to be attacked by an eel!"

But this time around, one of my friends told me to draw a picture of her as a little girl holding a bunny. I thought to myself "I haven't drawn anything super cute... ever. Maybe that'll be challenging."

Yeah. It was a little too challenging. For the life of me, I could NOT draw a cute little girl and a bunny. So I drew a space pirate and a lizard bunny instead. :shrug:
:iconartgeektopia:
Thank you! I might be alright with gouache, but it certainly isn't without effort. I had to wipe her face off and start over once. :D

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