[enigmawing]

This little pic here is basically a mixed-media piece. . .

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/3801/arielsox7.png

I drew the line art back in 2003 when I was still working with school-aged kids.  Some of you that have been around a while may have heard me mention this, but I'd often make them coloring sheets and sometimes I'd take "requests" for favorite characters.  Most, like this one, were lightly sketched out in pencil and inked with fat Crayola markers as they looked on.  From there I'd hold on to the original and set a stack of photocopied ones on the tables for anyone to grab.  I'd also sit with the kids and color with them, showing them my approach with handling the markers and colored pencils.

If I remember right, I think this particular piece was partially colored about two years ago while I was at work.  Yeah, so the coloring was done on a photocopy of the line art.  The skin was colored with pencils, and the rest of the figure was colored with the fat Crayola makers.

I sorta forgot about the pic but found a photo of it in my photobucket account last night (well before I had a scanner) so part of it was kinda dark.  I got in the mood to digitally finish it this morning, coloring in the background that I had left blank, warping the figure slightly to correct the propotions, filtering the existing colors to basically "restore" it, applying the burn tool to a portion of it, and adding a teeny bit of soft highlighting.

So. . . what was once old is new again.   :D

[JKR666]

retro.




Well, work is good. Thanks for the repost.

[Elysium Bliss]

Wow!  :o I swear I was looking at one of the original animated cels Enigma!!! What could I possibly say that you've never heard before? It's just amazing to see the quality and care you put into your work.  ;D

[bedpan_cowboy]

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[M6mm]

I always love the work of EW!!

Awsum!!

[Cliff]

Beautiful work EW!  Ariel was always my favorite female Disney character.  Well, at least in human form.


p.s. - When are you gonna post your Ariel [dirty] pics?   ;)

[kalcium]

She looks so coy.  (No pun intended) It's another of those clean-dirty pics you do. ;)

[MF]

Lovely as always, E.  :-* Ariel's my favorite Disney babe too, Cliff. (LO-O-OVE those redheads!)

[Lieutenant Dan]

thats cool E, pretty nice work, i really like your paint style, thats something characteristic of you, (my bad english is something characteristic of me LOL), and your pait style is different from the others and it gives a special "fresh air" to your drawings, keep it! ;)

[dragoncop]

That is BEAUTIFUL.
dc