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Got some notes this morning on the piece, made some changes, which I think improves the piece, and hopefully captures the personality of one of the characters more closely.

revision

Thanks, I'm enjoying working on this one, here's some more:

inks

oooh it's in Birmingham! What an awesome excuse to go back to my old stomping grounds and visit some friends!

oh well .....maybe next year!

Here's a little tighter sketch

A little less rough rough

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LOL, very nice alex.

One question who is the character asking for change in the background.

maybe the pink peregrine can be white peregrines arch nemesis. Or maybe its the Stygian Crows thong.

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That's Yellow Wolf.

Yes the Prodigiously Pilfering Pink Peregrine, the ultimate Nemesis to the White Peregrine!!

Almost didn't make it! So here's the next page, I think I'll just make this month the laundromat issue, still have some good ideas to stick in so stay tuned!

That's why I wear a Black Costume!

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looks amazing! do i get a larger version of it?

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11"x17" 300dpi file!

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What size paper do you usually draw on?

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For Sketch a Day, I'm using a 9"x12" sketchbook, but commissions are all digital and they are 11"x17" 300dpi.

Yay another commission! Here's a super rough start

super rough sketch

Here she is, my GF helped with this one!

Final

yay big giant tablet!!!! I'm sure it'll work fine, it's the artist not the tool that's important, but nice tools makes things a little easier!

Maybe it's time to try to draw with the other arm! Always wanted to try doing that myself!

Decided to play with Painter because I haven't used it in ages!

Now in Painter

Close up

Still lots to do, but Painter is such a fun and complex program!

was tweaking the wings, I'm happy with them now:

Final

woohoo! Happy Birthday!

almost there

Getting Close!

yes the truth is out, White Peregrine is with egg! We'll still trying to find out who the father is, will keep the community updated! And reports of WP being a fungus and growing on Roxtar have been greatly exaggerated.

It was bound to happen, not content with staying in the sketch a day thread, Mistress Vine breaks out to her own post, and she's forcing me to paint her as well.

Mistress Vine-just starting!

Added a spot of color

progressing along!

a little more color, almost time to work on the wings!

Almost time to do the wings!

search for this: 42-16438249 at corbis. it's the picture's id number.
42-16327389 is a nice one too.

try different search terms like swimming, underwater, they have lots of stuff, sometimes you need to narrow your searches other times more general searches will work.

Doing some colors, here it is in progress

Colors in progress

check out photo reference sites, my goto site is usually Corbis they have a search feature, and images on google is also good.

Use the Searchfu young padawan! Membership at corbis is free and then you can get photos without the watermark.

Oh start creating a reference library if you don't have one.

here's the inked version

inked

here's the composition I think I'll go with, her floating there by herself seemed a bit bland, so I thought, hmmm needs something...

final composition

Thanks, I am really liking this one! Gonna try to really push it. I think I already said how I'm looking forward to doing the wings, which of course will be the last thing I do!