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Clarice Has A Green

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Things that Constitute A Jess Picture:
-Character staring aimlessly and smiling aimlessly.
-Random, crappily drawn boxes in the background because I'm too lazy to use a ruler, and besides, when I do the box looks worse anyway.
-Other said shape in the background to spice things up to make my otherwise incredibly boring background more exciting.

And finally.....

-Character completely oblivious to the fact that they, somehow, have managed to walk out of thier background and are now walking in a white, blank space.

ALL THIS, AND MORE! IN YOUR NEXT EDITION OF JESS PICTURES!

:icontardnessplz:


Anyway. This was one of those pictures that I drew strictly to practice drawing folds in clothing, so thus, its actually completely okay that its boring. My next victim was Clarice, for...well, for whatever reason, I wanted to draw Clarice. I was going through a Sears catalogue and I got some inspiration and off I went. I also wanted to draw characters in something besides jeans, and Clarice works because she usually has oodles of girly clothing and flowy dresses and stuff like that. Altho I don't think she was originally created like that, she just sorta turned out that way over the past while. Because my characters are incredibly creepy like that and take on thier own personalities. I seriously think they are real, somewhere, in this vast universe. (Perhaps Imaginationland? <--South Park Reference XD )

Anyway. So here we have Clarice, just walking about, outside of her background, and... yes. Thats it. She's wearing a nice frumpy dress that I'm sure only she can pull off (it'd probably look like a moomoo on me. XD. ) I forgot what her hair was supposed to look like at the time when I was drawing this picture, so I put it up in a different style, sneakily pretending like thats what I intended to do. XD Clarice really likes green, hence why she always seems to be wearing green, and I just had some fun with this one :D I think the overall result came out nice, altho I DO NOT like the folds on the side, to your right, because they just don't seem right because she's wearing a dress/tunic thingie, so I think that should be flat. And I'm also quite sure that her arm on your right is also too small (I just realized that right now. XD) but I think all in all, it came out pretty okay. :D

I actually wasn't even going to put an exciting background in the background in the first place, but when it came down to colouring this one, it...just needed some kinda scenery background instead of a gigantic blob of colour following her.

So...what do I opt for? TREES! SHRUBBERY! FENCES! LAKES! A LITTLE GAZEBO IN THE BACKGROUND THAT ACTUALLY KINDA SEEMS REALLY OUT OF PLACE! BUT OF COURSE! And look, to make my shrubbery more exciting, I made some of it ooze out from the fence! Isn't that dramatic? And then of course, theres my tree, peeking its head out from the side there! The lake in the background actually reminds me of Thunder Bay, and Lake Superior... There was this rock...island...thingie there, called The Sleeping Giant, and it sorta kinda looked like that back there, only more giant-y. (LOLWUT?) I do like the background, altho, my only major complaint is that... it...looks... well it doesn't look right, because it looks too slanted, and the perspective is all off and stuff. I blame it completely on the little walkway to the gazebo, which I messed up epically on, because I drew the "bricks" all demented and wrong.

Actually, the gazebo doesn't really look like a gazebo, does it? It kinda looks like a well. Hopefully there isn't a creepy, long haired vengeful ghost in that well that is going to come out and slime its way over the Clarice and kill her by doing that gigantic, open mouth thing like in the Ring. If there are any ghosts in that well, hopefully they are like Casper.


LOL, actually, wouldn't it be really creepy if I just sorta, like, slid a creepy-ass long hair girl in the background, a silouette? /random stupid thought no one cares about.

Anyway. I really like this one in the end, but MY GOD. This one scanned in ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE. I'm looking at the original right now and thinking OMG. The green came out really dull, and it looks all choppy and stuff... I dunno, I think I'l lhave to fix my scanner settings or something because its starting to scan my pictures really crappy like. I really hope my old scanner hasn't possessed my new scanner. The picture just came out all grainy and stuff... .0.0 I find it most annoying. Ah well tho, I still like this one... Just not this scanned version, tis all.

And look, I even gave her a slightly more exciting necklace thats NOT a cross! I have a pink one kinda like that one shes wearing. I like how her hair came out in the end :D Her hair is always a little difficult to shade because of the whole red-yellow thing, because sometimes I make it too blonde, but I think it turned out spankingly :D

So yes, just some more practice, starring Clarice! :D Claricey-poo here is © to Jess Ratte :D
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Kaikulee23's avatar
now i must know what you use to color your art, there must be a trick to this smoothness and awesomes XD

*grabs color pencils*
PENCILS! TELL ME YOUR SECRET!!!!