Coloring Berserk, Dragons, Weirdness

Mostly pictures of stuff I've colored, but also randomness

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Berserk, pages 18 and 19, book 1. Gesso leaves smear-marks pretty bad when it isn’t sanded, but sanding sometimes makes it too thin and bleeds through the page... still trying to find a balance here. 😩 Feedback or constructive criticism is welcome! I’m a super amateur at this sort of thing.

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Done with alcohol markers (copics, chameleons, and ohuhu) and paint markers for metallic accents (hard to see in a picture, but the spikes are silver and the whip accents are gold). Artwork stolen from deviantart, the artist signature is preserved in the pic. All I did was print (with my crappy line-leaving printer) and color. Enjoy!

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Mostly ohuhu but also one copic (lightning yellow!) alcohol markers. I like to post the backside of the paper where it bleeds through because it looks weirdly watercolor, or like a photoshop filter. This is art from austinmengler.deviantart.com and I have zero rights to the image, I just printed it and colored it. The printer left faint white lines, but the markers cover it enough for me to be satisfied.

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Berserk, pages 16 and 17, book one. Yeah, I know the pages I say aren’t the same as what’s printed in the book... what I list is basically how many pics I take.

This was done with water based markers. Still workin out the details of using Gesso.

In this scene, other than the guy screaming and people gasping, they talk about how Guts’ sword is basically a big hunk of iron, unwieldy and terrifying, and the elf tells Guts to come back, not to leave him there.

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Book one, page 15 of Berserk, with MARKERS! I recently discovered the magic of a product called Gesso, so I have switched my project up from using colored pencils to using markers. Now I can prime the pages to keep them from bleeding through, and use markers. I feel like the markers make it easier for me to achieve the level of detail I need in such tiny panels and detailed artwork - it’s very difficult to keep colored pencils sharp enough to do the manga justice. I’m using a blend of Kuretake brush markers, Arteza brush markers and fine liner pens, and Tombow markers.

I will say that I’m still testing out this Gesso thing, so there are a few areas where the colors did bleed a little because I didn’t have the page covered quite enough, so please forgive the distortion. I also discovered that red is the devil, and as soon as I started using it, it smeared all over the place. I will now do blood and armor last to try and prevent this ugly mistake in the future.

I post in order, so if you’re missing panels, check nsfw.

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Book one, pages 13 and 14 of Berserk, with MARKERS! I recently discovered the magic of a product called Gesso, so I have switched my project up from using colored pencils to using markers. Now I can prime the pages to keep them from bleeding through, and use markers. I feel like the markers make it easier for me to achieve the level of detail I need in such tiny panels and detailed artwork - it’s very difficult to keep colored pencils sharp enough to do the manga justice. I’m using a blend of Kuretake brush markers, Arteza brush markers and fine liner pens, and Tombow markers. 

I’m doing my best to approximate the same color scheme I was using with pencils now that I’ve switched over to markers, but it still might be a little jarring (that is, if you even bother looking at the previous panels), so apologies for that.

I will say that I’m still testing out this Gesso thing, so there are a few areas where the colors did bleed a little because I didn’t have the page covered quite enough, so please forgive the distortion. I also discovered that red is the devil, and as soon as I started using it, it smeared all over the place. I will now do blood and armor last to try and prevent this ugly mistake in the future. 

I post in order, so if you’re missing panels, check nsfw.

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From Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland, done with Kuretake & Arteza brush markers. The mad hatter, the hare, and the dormouse turned into a monstrosity... I’m not happy with the color I picked for the dormouse, he just kinda disappears. I wanted the rest to look very patchwork, like they just gathered a bunch of parts from salvage. Enjoy!

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So, I printed out a bunch of artwork from artists on DeviantArt and have started coloring them, because the work is just so much higher quality than I can find in many actual coloring books. Unfortunately my printer was having a spaz fit and a bunch of the images came out with these weird lines through them, but I colored it anyway. This is not my work and I have no rights to the image, and it may even be owned by Green Ronin now? I’m not sure. I used CastleArt colored pencils. - The artist credit is: https://www.deviantart.com/namesjames/art/Evil-Goblin-Demon-47240167 

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From Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland coloring book I bring you Tweedledee and Tweedledum, using my new CastleArt colored pencils. Enjoy!

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Been playing with watercolors. I have kuretake watercolor brush pens, but this is the first time I’ve really played with the watercolor aspect of them, usually I just use them as regular markers. The top picture uses those kuretake pens and some new arteza watercolor markers as well. The bottom picture is done using watercolor colored pencils, also something I’ve never used before... and I definitely screwed up the outside edge. I will never blend with black again! Both of these come from a Fantasy Adventure coloring book.

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Some more dragons that have been keeping me busy and keeping me away from posting Berserk pages. From top to bottom: Indian Naga, Bush Dragon, Tibetan Dragon, and Mexican Amphithere. The Naga and the Mexican both use metallic markers, but it’s very hard to make out in the pictures, sadly. All dragons come from the Dragonology coloring book. 

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Berserk, book one, page 12. Been a while since I posted one of these... the amount of people in the tavern bogged me down and had me discouraged, but I got some new colored pencils and decided to pick it up again. Hoping to finish this scene soon so I can use the new pencils without the color transition being too jarring!

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So these two weren’t done by me, but by friends and family. Still from the Dragonology coloring book, and worth sharing. Mostly following the color suggestions from the book, with their own twists, using kuretake markers. We have the Sargasso dragon and the Dwarf dragon.

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These guys are just goofing around! A few of the silly, adorable dragons from the Dragonology coloring book. Mostly following the color suggestions from the book, with my own twist, using kuretake markers. We have the ditzy Dodo Dragon, the incredibly goofy Draco Stupidus, a Monkey Dragon just hanging around, and the Draconosaurus Rex with its little baby. 

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A few more classics from the Dragonology coloring book. Mostly following the color suggestions from the book, with my own twist, using kuretake markers. We have the Sea Serpent, a Frost Dragon, and the Lindworm.