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Copyright Statement 1 by Sophibelle

This drawing is actually almost 4 years old now, but I never liked the coloring job, so several people asking me when I'm going to upload more Road Rovers fanart seemed the perfect excuse to redo it- especially since I figured if I waited to upload this any longer I probably never would, because my style for drawing RR has radically changed over the last few years. I have a ton of RR art still that has never been uploaded to the Internet that I won't be putting up because my style and skill level has advanced since I've done a lot of it, and I really don't want to fill my gallery with a lot of older garbage. Even now uploading something 4 years old really feels like pushing it, lol.

I wanted to digitally color Colleen to look as if she had been colored with markers- I know it's not fooling anyone, lol, but I wanted to try and emulate the look and feel of marker strokes and layering and I think it came across fairly well. For Hunter I sandwhiched color layers between two value painting layers, and then later went back and added extra light and warm shadows on top of those. Just was a fun pic to continue to play around with digital painting techniques to find what I find to be most comfortable with, as I have never been very comfortable with digital coloring even though I have been using Photoshop since 1995. World's slowest learner -_-

The fuggin grass actually took the longest, and that's because I experimented with several approaches. First, I tried to hand paint the blades in. You can probably guess how much patience I had for that ( hint- not long ). Next try- took two photos of grass in the backyard, loaded them into photoshop, edited them and then turned them into custom Photoshop brushes. Hmmm... still tedious painting job and the brushes aren't working too well. Next, research and follow a really tedious tutorial on how to create a seamless grass texture using several dozen steps through filters. Wow- actually created an extremely realistic-looking grass texture doing this! Of course, suffers the problem of all repeating textures- the tiled effect of it in the picture makes the repeating pattern very obvious which just cheapens the whole image. Well damn.

At this point it's 2 am in the morning, I have work in a few hours; it's time for stylized blobby grass. And oddly, it seems to work and compliment the overall sunny, lazy daydreaming theme of the picture.

This looks so much better and more balanced without all the text/watermark junk all over it, but unfortunately, I have had so many problems with art theft over the years; I have to take the extra precautions.

Now hopefully on to finish some Holiday-themed pics!

Characters © Warner Bros.
Artwork © 2010 Kylen Christine Miles
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WolfFalloutkid99's avatar

I Always loved that picture. I remember looking at it, a few years back by the time I watched the show.