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A sketch of Vicky Wyman's Alicia, Empress of the Ever-Changing Palace of Xanadu.
Xanadu is one of the classic stories that helped to create the anthro/furry fandom way back in the day...., followed by the fanzine "The Ever-Changing Palace", "Across The Diamond Sea", and so on. Vicky Wyman has a gallery on FA and here as well, doing all sorts of nifty trad art, commissions, etc -
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/vickywyman
https://www.weasyl.com/profile/vickywyman
i did this pencil sketch about 17 years ago and couldn't figure out how to ink it, until a couple years ago when i put tones on it and realized (duh) it's supposed to be a painting ! It will eventually be a traditional painting...oils or acrylics...
10 x 10 inch pencil
Tones in Painter X
Gradient Map in Photoshop LE
Frame in PaintshopPro7
New colour layers in PaintshopPro 7
Old Semi monochrome version at FA:
http://www.furaffinity.net/full/5573526/
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It's a sort of on-going project as i understand it. Some folks have a publishing interest in it, i think, so she isn't free at the moment to just do what she wants with it - not sure if that's right though. She's done some sketches etc with the characters at FA....
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17 years in the making, amazing.
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Well. it's not like i worked on it all that time! It was just a little pencil sketch that i had that i originally thought i would ink...but i couldn't quite figure out how to ink....because in the back of my mind i knew it should be a painting, not an ink drawing...so it got set aside with hundreds of other little pencil sketches for some future use, maybe....When Vicky started posting at FA a couple years ago i wanted to do a tribute piece for her...looked at some sketches i had done of her Xanadu characters and saw this one...then it occurred to me that that i'd abandoned it because of thinking it would be an ink picture, etc etc and so on....i have hundreds, maybe thousands of pencil sketches from my teens onward that were left as sketches - one has limited time...especially when i was in Animation biz and being caring for children....i'm returning to some of those old pics now that i have time while also doing new art....it's a rather nice sense of completion. i have some large pieces from back in my late teens/early twenties that i'll soon be finishing in tradition media...it's sort of like re-reading a book you liked from some time ago.... ^^
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Heh, I remember Xanadu. I can't remember if Vicky ever finished it or not, though...