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So I finally managed to get my hands on some non-photo blue pencils. It took forever to find them, I had to go to a special store...but once I did, I realized I can probably find them in Michael's now that I know where to look.
ANYWAY these pencils are just about the COOLEST THING EVER!
After getting them I of course had to try them out. So this was test #1 and an excuse to get to draw the other two boetheri scouts I'd designed.

You might remember this from this picture from a while back: [link]
I had actually designed all three masks at the same time and took the one I liked the best for the character I liked the most when I wanted to try a full-body shot. Here I actually get to play with all three. I had toyed with the idea of having a contest to design these guys - because designing boetheri is fun! - but I had nothing to offer as a prize, and couldn't resist doing it myself anyway - because designing boetheri is fun!

Why would I make a scout white, wouldn't that make it harder for him to hide? That should just tell you how good he is ;)

Art-wise, I left ALL the original sketch lines in the picture. Every single one of them is still there. Can you see them? No? That's why non-photo blue pens rock. XD
I think this picture is prettier than Harvest, because I went back to my old style of coloring, but I paid some attention to the background for once, and I'm pretty happy with it. I'll probably leave the eye-spaces white in the comic as I did in the scrap drawing, but I think you guys can understand why that wouldn't work in color. XD

The boetheri and their scouts are from my webcomic: [link]

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~lonelymoon666:iconlonelymoon666: 6 days 44 minutes ago
It looks really good, I especially like the masks
*Jetyra-Luck:iconJetyra-Luck: 5 days 22 hours ago
Oh I really like those masks and outfits! A definate :+fav:!

o.O I've never heard of "non-photo blue pens" what do they do?

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~ZoeStead:iconZoeStead: 5 days 18 hours ago
Love the colours again, you're getting better with your poses!

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~dragonsong12:icondragonsong12: 5 days 7 hours ago
Thanks much! I'm a fan of the masks too (half the point of drawing this picture was just to have an excuse to draw them XD)

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~dragonsong12:icondragonsong12: 5 days 7 hours ago
Whoo hoo! Thanks! Mean a lot coming from you (your designs of armor and such always impress the crap out of me.)

Non-photo blue pencils, actually - though that's MY typo. Sorry about that. ^^;
Basically, the tone of blue that they are can't be registered by things like photocopiers. So this includes scanners to some extent. The plus of it is, you can draw the picture with the blue pencils, then ink or put in regular pencils overtop, and when you scan it, the sketches won't show. No erasing, no tracing, no nothing, just clean inks!
Now it does take a little bit of adjustment. The only way to make the blue lines not show up AT ALL is to scan black and white, but unfortunately this makes things pixelated. I usually scan in greyscale and since this isn't ~quite~ like a photocopier, the blue lines show up very faintly (grey of course). But a quick adjustment of the curves is all it takes to make them dissapear entirely. It takes a lot of (annoying) steps out of the process for me. :D

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~dragonsong12:icondragonsong12: 5 days 7 hours ago
*strikes a pose* I am, aren't I? :D

It was fun though, the differences in in the color pallet between this and the rain picture. And I was working on them at almost the same time. It was like night and day. Good times.

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*Jetyra-Luck:iconJetyra-Luck: 4 days 14 hours ago
Graaa... I was in the middle of replying to this and then I had to leave ASAP and so I never got to finish so I have to do it all over again. THose blue oencils sound great though, I might have to check them out :3

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*dmfox:icondmfox: 3 days 12 hours ago
very nice.

this give me an idea to do with a set of my characters.

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~Lupina24:iconLupina24: 2 days 11 hours ago
this is wonderful! great work here *faves*

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