hey, i feel for ya on the scanner issue. mine really sucks too. but, nonetheless, this drawing looks really good! keep up the good work. (i love dragons!)

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Thats Haku!!

incredible




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Imagine.

Yeah I have a pretty bad scanner myself. Thats usually why I perfer not to scan them raw and instead "cyber" color them. I can't usually get away with coloring them normally since the scan doesn't pick them up very well. You of course fare far better then I do.

I can only assume the "streaks" might have something to do with the paper since you seem to draw alot on bumpy paper? I recall using paper similar to that in highschool as it was good for watercolored pictures. Scanners unfortunetly see EVERYTHING so they'll often pick up on the small details that you wouldn't normally notice.

That is a very lovely picture tho. The coloring style is very pleasent. The dragon is dead on with the one seen in the movie. In fact the render does the anime one a great justice.

I actually saw that movie in the theatre and recall that dragon being the one who got 1001 papercuts from bad paperdolls. Ouch!

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Awsome pic of Haku, his body looks so serpintine and the clouds! EEEE!! fluffy
I'd hate to fall into an aussie stereotype but CRIKEY!

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EVERYONE SEE SPIRITED AWAY NOW!!!!

Haku is awesome!

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Very pretty! You have such remarkable control of pencils, the colors are soft where they need to be and bright where they need to be. Lovely.

This is a very beautiful picture of Haku!! It captures the very essance of "Spirited Away"'s dragonboy!!

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I lurff Hakuuu! Just somethin' 'bout him makes me wanna pet him.

Erm, maybe that came out wrong... Beautiful drawing, anyway. Ehee.

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Oh, that is so cool! You captured Haku beautifully! The pose you gave him really recalls the way he flies in the movie-- right down to the whiskers. I love 'Spirited Away' like a fanatic. Ghibli Studios rocks.

Maybe the streak problem is related to the scan resolution? I'm just pullin' this outta my kaboose, but maybe color pencil on certain kinds of textured paper has an effect similar to what happens when you scan magazine pages at resolutions incompatible with the printed quality. So maybe it's a matter of trying different scan resolutions until you find one that minimizes the streaks.

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flyyyyy my fuzzy dragon one, FLYYYY!!!

hee hee, i just saw Spirited Away today in English... i saw it in Japanese about a year ago though... wheeeeee!