Husky

Eh. I decided to get a special Copic pad just to see what it's all about. There are pros and cons to the pad for me, which I'll explain in a moment. I'll describe the image quick.

This is a girl I based off of a Siberian Husky picture I saw. It was a red and white husky with heterochromia. I tried to make her Eskimo/Russian-esque, that's why the eyes are so different than I normally do. She's holding a diphtheria antitoxin (from Balto? hehe) and gold and she's SUPPOSED to be lying on her back in snow. But, you know, Mandy and backgrounds never mix very well. Haha.

So, the paper:

Pros:
- amazing with layers. Her undershirt is all the same color in different layers
- the color scans really well
- bleedproof for the most part through the back

Cons:
- when I was erasing my sketchlines after inking it faded my ink a LOT
- it doesn't blend very well BECAUSE it's bleedproof. I like a little bit of bleeding so my colors are almost gradiented a bit instead of HERE'S THE BASE, HERE'S THE SHADE. I like the gradual color change. I even tried the colorless blender and it pretty much did NOTHING.

I think this special paper takes some getting used to. I've trained myself to work with the bleeding of sketchbook paper or pen-paper which I normally use for my marker work. So I think it's something I just have to continue to use to get the hang of. I'm sure you'll see more from me with this paper soon! :]]