ello... nice name~

My
Enslaved
Artist
Monkey.

Meam.

lol XD Rachael called me this long ago and it stuck as a nickname

cool~ i like it~ that is what my deviantart name is...a nick name that stuck.

Tashiya-sama kawaii desu ka @__@ <--obnoxious random japanese that probably makes no grammatical sense XD

awwww..all you have to add is Tashiya-sama "wa" kawaii desu~ leave ka out.. that makes it a question~ you were close and that is pretty damn good!

hoorah lol
Tashiya-sama ist sehr suss There I'll use german and just modify my squirrel sentence lol X3

Thanks for the watch. ^__^

I think your artwork is amazing. ^^, I've no idea how to color my drawings like you do. ^^,

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~Hyuu

no problem!
Thanks so much @_@ I just draw all the time XD I wasn't always able to shade well, i had a good teacher in highschool who emphasized contrast though that sometimes gets me in a little trouble with still lifes..as i take it a little too far...XD
I was also heavily influenced by 's older shading style, with colored pencil and prismacolor. This was back when I was in highschool as well. It was because of her work that I became interested in trying out markers, firstly prismacolor and then I moved onto copics much later in college. Theres nothing wrong with emulating a shading style you like in order to try to learn how it might work and you can develop your own methods from there. You might be able to find some interesting tutorials online although I don't know any specifically to recommend.
Okay I have rambled for far too long, sorry DX

I don't really use markers and after reading what you just wrote there, I think I might give them a try. ^^

Yeah, I looked at some tutorials before and I did learn a lot about shading and stuff. I'm just plain awful when it comes to color blending and I can't even count the number of times I've ruined a drawing because of my coloring. ^^,

Thanks a lot!

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~Hyuu