When I look at Ursula Vernon things, my fancy lightly turns to thoughts of art.

[napoleonherself]

Back in 2002 I bothered to remember that Elfwood existed, and that I had a gallery there. And I put up a smattering of artworks, some digital, some colored pencil. One of them I always really liked, and still have a little bit of a soft spot for even if the nose does look all disjointed -- but the scanner just ruined it. Washed out the light browns, killed the reds, just yuck. Whatever cheap crap scanner I had back then, it did not have good color reproduction AT ALL.

For a few years now I've idly thought about rescanning it. And just now I finally did!

So the much more true to life version looks like this.



The sort of vertical blob on the right is sticky left behind by the electrical tape that I used to tape a piece of tracing paper over it to keep it from smearing (I used electrical tape back then to tape tracing paper down when I was inking comics; these days I use blue painter's tape). The date in the bottom corner is from those heady 2002 days -- February 21, very nearly 12 years ago now. And while the art isn't any better than it was back then, those wings finally don't look Boring Brown With A Side Of Blah.

(Gonna xpost this to mah tumblr in a bit, but right now mecha is home with dinner so it is time to eat.)

Comments

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

I always liked your fat fairies. :)

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I always did too! I'm vaguely considering doing another one. Although probably digital instead of colored pencils, since the only colored pencils I have are the same ones I had back in 2002, and they're kind of unsharpenable these days.