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Thank you everyone! 😀
Koishi, I did run into that problem with blending the red and blue, it always came out as a much darker purple than what I wanted. I ended up putting a violet in between and blending the blue and red into the purple.
Megani-chan wrote:He does indeed look like a blueberry with splashes of cream 😀 I like him a lot. Is that a ready-made blue, or did you mix it yourself? It’s a really nice color, looks like there’s some purple in there too.
Thanks! He’s a combination of mixed and ready-made blues and purples from Windsor & Newton. The first blue layer was a mixed light blue, then ultramarine blue and windsor violet to darken the shadows on him plus some interference purples and blues as the last layer.
Tintaglia, the Kirin was really fun to paint, I want to do another of them with a more complicated color scheme some time. The outdoor light worked really well for the Kirin, and I think I found the problem for the blues. I looked up my camera and apparently it’s pretty common for cameras, including mine, to enhance the blue so skies look brighter.
I finally got the pictures of the Kirin uploaded, so here he is! He reminds me of a Peanut Butter Cup… 😀
Thank you both! 😀
BRoS, I agree, it’s fun to see how unique everyone makes their PYOs. I liked both of yours, by the way.
Dragonmedley, it’s good to know I’m not alone in having problems with photographing these guys. I did try a white background, but that just brightened the blue. I guess like everything else it’ll take some experimentation and practice to get right.
I’ll have the kirin photos up in a minute, I just need to go upload them
Here he is, the Blueberry Prince, before I added the sealant coat:
He’s my second PYO ever, and I love how he turned out! The first was a simple kirin I painted for practice a few days before I started the Prince. I’ll post some pictures of him soon, though this guy is my favorite of the two.
I’d love to hear what you all think of him, and critiques are very welcome! Also, I’m curious if anyone has trouble photographing blue PYOs? I tried to take photos of him outside but the photos always came out way too bright of a blue, (though my brown kirin had no trouble) so it took a few tries to find a way of lighting the dragon so that the photos showed the right colors.
travistie wrote:purplecat wrote:I like the spotty pattern on #4 better than the stripey pattern…colors aside…I especially like how the grey is darker on the spot border and fades gently inwards.
I like him because of those reasons too. Plus, he’s just soooo different looking when compared to many of the others. This is probably why #5 won last time. She was the only black one out of the group… making her unique and desirable to the collectible eye! 🙂
I agree with both of you. Those two stood out quite a bit from the rest, though 12 is quite different as well and doesn’t have as many votes. I think someone mentioned 12 looks great in person, but of the two white/gray ones I still like the darker coloring of #4. Number 9 would have been my second choice though.
I know what you mean, the ending was disappointing… it just didn’t seem to fit with the rest of the movie. I did really like the emphasis on imagination and seeing the world around you in your own way, then opening that world to others. In a way, the ending did support that idea, but it still didn’t fit as well as I think a different end might have. Still, a good movie overall
For Sci-fi, if you’ve never read Ender’s Game, it’s very, very good.
As for fantasy, well, a lot of my favorites have already been mentioned (ddvm, you beat me to mentioning Green Rider :)) but you might want to try the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathon Stroud, which are young adult books, but very good. His Majesty’s Dragon and the two others in the trilogy by Naomi Novik are good as well. I’ll also second the Sandman comics, which is by far the best comic series I’ve read in a while.
I think my list of must-read books just doubled because of this thread… 😀
