^^ I use ... whatever kind is available. XD; Then I ink over it and begin coloring. I think my current pencil is a #2....
I hold the light and the darkness of my heart.... by @Lucky_Ladybug66 (Daisy Hunt)
Yay! I'm so glad I have this done. It wouldn't be nearly as good without Aubrie's help, though! She figured out how to get the Seal in the background, since Paint Shop Pro only wanted to put it in the foreground. XD; Ah, the wonders of Adobe Photoshop.... She also added lots of the glow effects you see, and fixed the "dark" Alister's eyes.
Now for an explanation. This is based on my fic The Darkness Within, which I'm very proud of. In it, Alister is cut and poisoned by an Orichalcos stone during the rise of the Doom Reborn organization. It eventually gets complete control of him and he challenges Raphael and Valon to a fatal penalty game. Here, the "real," complete Alister is panic-stricken, because his friends are about to lose and hence, will die. On his right is his "light" soul and on his left is his "dark" soul, under the Orichalcos's influence. And yes, the implication is that he's naked, which is why I put N as one of the ratings reasons.
The song lyric comes from the second English opening of Magic Knight Rayearth. When I got a DVD last week that had the lyric on the cover, that's what inspired the picture.
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Ahhh. generally uses a .5mm mechanical pencil I can't ink. LOL. I royally, royally suck at inking. Perhaps 'cause I do such fine, thin lines and pieces of stuff. I either pencil or a pen to begin with, never both, because it always turns out crappy for me. bad tracer
Something you might wanna try sometime is to just use pencil and use light and dark lines. It just kinda gives it more dimension. Also good practice for shading. ^^
Maybe it's cheap for me to comment on this. LOL But it really did come out great. >3 Especially the evil Alister. I dunno . . . psycho, evil lookin' guys can be kinda sexy sometimes (or maybe I just like the whole psychological drama). XP But in Alister's case, it doesn't apply as much, of course.
I really am surprised no one's commented on this yet. Of course, I think everyone's just gotten lazy on the site . . . shifty eyes Or maybe it just hasn't been WORKING!
Anywhooo . . . Valon's expression came out really good as well. Just out of curiousity though, what kind of pencil/size lead do you use?