Color Fest - July!

Well, the unofficial date I set for posting all of the Color Fest entries was the end of July so Id love to share with you now all the wonderful paintings people submitted to me of the line art I supplied about a month ago :)
Thank you to everyone who took the time to paint them! They are all beautiful and unique, its so much fun to see what different people came up with!
Here they are:

the lovely electric drawing by Koharukage

the expertly beautiful coloring by Kleedoll

a sweet glittery rendition by Anima07

a beautiful stormy coloring by Ciwiel

a magically spooky piece by the talented Marianne

the sweet and bright coloring by my friend Sandra

a lovely garden scene by the sweet Starpikachu

A gorey, and awesomely unique rendition by: Acuru

Hope youve enjoyed all of them ^^ And if you like one in particular be sure to check out their web page! I know all artists love a spot of attention for the hard work they do creating pictures for everyone :D
If any more colorings come in, dont fret, if you show them to me on deviantart theyll go into my Kanako coloring collection, and Ill always post them onto my Facebook page! The line art is still available here.

Maybe a new coloring fest in the future! The more popular it becomes we can make it into a bit of a competition with prizes so tell me your thoughts and opinions ^^

My Own Colors: Kanako Complete

well if you recall, the lineart I made was for a contest I was entering on deviantart. The characters name is Kanako, one of the Old Maids from Touhou - the challenge was to dress them in lolita clothing.
Now, I had to up the challenge for myself because they only accept full body pictures... which my original lineart was not. So, I had to extend the line art and try all sorts of new, scary, annoying things to make the picture look some what what it looked like in my head...

there she is! finally complete...

Now for some WIP photos because... I just have to show them, always :P

here we are at the beginning, looks a bit familiar to some!

i think the basic coloring phase took me a few hours on its own -_-

basic shading complete in Sai - then the problem solving would begin

i then proceeded to go crazy on textures...a new thing for me

and were back to the finished product!

Now theres alot of things Im not completely happy about...like the extension part of linework - what is it with me and failing at feet?! anyway doesnt matter - I learned alot of valuable lessons doing this picture - and here are some folks Id like to thank -
Arkaya - for the great lace tutorial and sample image
Pabloalvin - for this wood texture I used on the umbrella
and Enchantedgal-Stock for this velvet texture I used on the stockings.

That about sums me up for now! Hope you all enjoy my colored version, and cant wait to see more entries to the color fest  ^^

Round Two: More Colors from Color Fest!

So happy to present 2 more colored pictures from the color fest I started a few days back!

 This lovely witchy edition is thanks to Marianne who really put her beautiful mark on the picture!! She is a fantastic artist whom you can find at her blog here and her shop!!

This bright and colorful entry is thanks to a follow artist on deviantart named Anima07! You can find her page here :)

Thanks again to all the entries so far, keep them coming! Love seeing new designs and colors everyday ^^

Round One: Color Fest!

here are the first two completed colorings of the line art i gave out yesterday!

Thanks so much to Ciwiel for coloring this so beautifully! you can find her at: deviantart and her blog

And thanks to Sandra for this lovely pink lady :D You can find her on her blog

Thanks for those whove completed the coloring so far! Cant wait to see more!! :D
If youre interested in joining the color fest, get the free line art here!!