unedited Greta

Unedited Gretz
Rar. I used Copic and Prismacolor markers, white gel pen, and pan soft pastels. The picture took me around 8 hours from start to finish, which is the longest I've ever worked on a marker picture. I even did it spread over two days which is actually unheard of for me. I like to finish the picture I'm doing right after I've started it~

I never actually thought of using pastels with markers until I saw this tutorial. Another tutorial which I found helpful because I love the "lineless style" is this tutorial. Then I realized she uses pastels with her work too. Ha. The crazy things you learn.

I think you'll see a lot more traditional work from me now that I feel like I've gotten a pretty good handle on the markers :]]
Greta © Mandy Gamache
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Random tidbit: these earrings actually inspired me for the background! ^__^;;

Contest Skech

Sketch of a contest piece I'm doing in markers~
The object of the contest is to do something traditionally only using the hues of one color and I picked green. I also found out I'm kind of lacking in green markers. Haha.

Anyway, Gretaaa!!! <3 she's so cute. I'm really happy with this so far. It took me, like, 2 hours to sketch because I was being picky. Pickiness pays off sometimes, I guess! haa. I will post the finished marker piece when I'm done!!!

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practice

Speedpainting practice again. The two gingers are siblings~

iscribble

Fun times with Min on iscribble. I don't know why my iTunes showed up with the print screen too. Haha. Sorry! <3

experimentation

With the help of this tutorial

Sasha © Mandy Gamache

training

Day 25 (finally) & Duuuumppp

<-Day 25. I told you it was a boring Sasha bust. As you can see by the little TT__TT in the corner, I was tired ^^;


<-This was initially supposed to be a Halloween picture, but I abandoned it. Jason, Alex, and Sasha all dressed up like they're godly parents. Don't Jason and Alex look oh so happy? I think Sasha's the only one who doesn't actually mind being dressed up like her Dad. So there's a lightning bolt for Jason (yes, it really is a lightning bolt, I swear!), the Helm of Darkness for Alex (again, I swear!), and a trident for Sasha.

-> New character concept. She's Eliot and Tony's younger sister, Casey. Her real name is Cassidy, but when she was little she couldn't say it right so it came out "Casey". Cute, yeah? ^^ Anyway, like Eliot, she has heterochromia but hers is the more noticeable one: one blue eye, one brown. She's very much a tomboy, loves to hike (hence hiking boots) and she's a wonderful archer (I need bow practice...). Instead of music, though, she's more of an artist. I'm going to have a lot of fun with this character...^__^ Unfortunately, she won't be debuting until the end of Book II either.

-> More Casey

November 1st sketches!

<- Eliot and Liana inside the Jeep when Jason's going nuts outside. Liana's frightened so Eliot is singing to her. First to heal her, then because she asked him to. I have no intention of finishing this sketch.



<-Kera and Milo because Devin wanted me to. Milo's hair still gives me so much trouble, but I really like how Kera turned out. I might finish this one eventually.