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Colleen Brennanby =Sorelliena

Traditional Art / Drawings / People

This was pretty much the epiphanic point of my life where I realized carpal tunnel syndrome was inevitable.

Featuring Colleen Brennan, one of my OCs from a story I'm writing

She's one of my oldest OCs (circa 2003) and the one that I hold the most dear, at this point. I call the guys from this series my Ensemble. Also, she's the main protagonist... the "leader" of the Ensemble, per se.

Mostly, whenever people speak of Colleen, she's associated with "nice" and "quiet"; she is, to an extent. She's reserved most of the time, but under her placid nature lies very rich emotions, and a very sharp alertness and observancy. Colleen's ever-curious mind has her seeking knowledge, and her natural patience and resourcefulness ensures her own satisfaction. She's the first to pick up on others' emotions and (mostly) hurting. Colleen feels genuine sympathy for those who are in pain, and she does what she can to heal the scars over others' hearts.

Colleen is also the one who gathered the entire Ensemble through different means, and took them all under her wing. Underneath her "soft" outer personality lies a rock-hard conviction and irrepressible strength, but also instability and--often forgotten, purposefully or otherwise--sorrow. Colleen is prone to neglecting her own needs over others; she's filled with many, many rocky emotions that she often has to fight to control. But for all her inner instability, she's also filled with the same amount of love.

Leen has white gardenias, white being the theme to this series. Gardenias represent loveliness, secrecy, joy, luck and secret love. Gardenias are Colleen's favourite flowers... the meanings were actually not intended for her, which is why some of them don't match her personality. Ahahaha XD
But the "secret love" part might be right.

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The Ensemble
Colleen
Lale
Skye
Madeleine
Aidan
Yoshua
Silver
Valor

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Mechanical pencil 0.5
Laurentian Pencil Crayons

Sketch - 5 hours / Colour - 9 hours / Touchup - 1 hours
Total time: 17 hours (holy crap she took forever)}

Critique by ~fieryrebirth Aug 16, 2010, 12:24:15 AM

Your hard work has greatly paid off Miss Sorelliena, this piece stood out to me and quickly caught my attention when I looked through the deviations on my messages.

I noticed you've improved your anatomy skills shown in this piece but the head *slightly* appears too large, however what easily makes up for it is the amazing, realistic detail you put into the character's dress with just colored pencils, I haven't seen it done before!

The ribbons and skirt baffle me: the swaying on her right arm and body positioning gives me a slight impression that she is moving but the ribbons don't seem to express that, they're still?

I'm glad you put the effort in imbuing so much detail in the leaves, it shows you're willing to go the repetitive and even tedious way to create what you perhaps consider your best pieces. They detail in pretty much everything else around the character was well executed.

I'm gonna be honest here, this character intrigues and motives me to learn more able the Ensemble, since I'm now interested in the plot.

You've done a solid job on her expression on what she represents, she doesn't seem mysterious either, which I like. She sounds like a very motherly woman that anyone can respect and get attached to easily.

What do you think?

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~XxTheLadYxX Mar 4, 2011

so beautiful and soft !

=Sorelliena Mar 4, 2011 Student General Artist

Thank you kindly

~xxRinaStarxx Feb 23, 2011 Student Traditional Artist

I REALLY LOVE THIS~ WOW to your shading skills with pencil crayon. Omgs teach me!!!!! Love the contrast between her black hair and the white roses. I really love how you coloured the leaves!

=Sorelliena Feb 23, 2011 Student General Artist

I WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO COLOUR HAIR

once that tutorial is up ;_;

~xxRinaStarxx Feb 23, 2011 Student Traditional Artist

KAY KAY~ Hahhahaa you have so many tutorials to make.

~norukulegend Oct 2, 2010

Wowwww this is amazing. I especially like the shading on the hair.

=Sorelliena Oct 2, 2010 Student General Artist

ahaha, thank you so much

~ReyHai Sep 17, 2010

Amazing colouring, she's gorgeous!

=Sorelliena Sep 17, 2010 Student General Artist

Thanks so much!

=I3I Aug 20, 2010

^{it's so lovely, i always ran out of words when i see your works D;}

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