I took an old picture of a F’Sherl-Ganni (the Gatekeeper aliens with the bifurcated limbs) and decided to color it. Why? Two reasons:
1) It’s on Copic paper already. It’s BEGGING to be colored, because I’m out of that paper and wanted to see how the markers do on their home turf.
2) It’ll fetch more at the Linucon Art Auction if it’s in color.
I had to try again, just to make sure I was able to do Schlock the way I wanted to. Besides, I need a nice picture of Schlock for the Art Auction at Linucon.
My new set of Copic markers did not come with a clear match for Pantone 5773c, RGB #999966, which means that I have to mix, blend, fuss, and fidget in order to come up with Schlock’s “flesh-tone.”
I ordered two sets of Copic markers last week, and one of them arrived today. I sat down with these 72 colors (well… 71. There are two “shades” of black that I can’t tell apart.) and colored a reference sketch of an alien I designed. It didn’t come out too badly.
Then I felt ready to tackle a character I was actually reasonably familiar with: The leggy, curvaceous Doctor Edward ‘Bunni’ Bunnigus.