After coloring and darkening it, as a finishing touch I squashed it vertically. I rather like the result. Looks like a page out of a children's book -- for older children^^.
Friday, January 31, 2014
More Fun With Der Erlkönig
The other day while listening to my favorite lied, 'Der Erlkönig', yet again (both the Schubert and the Carl Loewe versions), I started idly doodling the sinister figure of the Elf King -- the spirit of the forest who can deal death invisibly to humans to satisfy his whims -- to go with the song. Then I got the bright idea of coloring it in with Paint.net. I'm still learning to use the program (yes, I'm a dinosaur) and I've never actually drawn with it before, so the result was necessarily very basic (O.K., primitive^^), but I was pleasantly surprised by how so much like a watercolor or block print it looked.
After coloring and darkening it, as a finishing touch I squashed it vertically. I rather like the result. Looks like a page out of a children's book -- for older children^^.
After coloring and darkening it, as a finishing touch I squashed it vertically. I rather like the result. Looks like a page out of a children's book -- for older children^^.
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