Dark Phoenix - XMen

As per request of who nabbed my 100th

This is probably the first time I've used colored pencils in roughly 4-5 years...looking at it, I think I haven't quite lost my touch...yet. Anyways, this is, more or less, practice for the upcoming contest held by as a chance to relearn how to use colored pencils.

This piece took roughly 4-5 hours in total for the whole process. Let's see, first I drew Phoenix, then I started drawing fire around her. Then I decided to start drawing more fire around her and I just kept on adding more and more until I got this nifty idea to start filling in the body of the firebird/Phoenix. You can kinda see the eyes and beak...

Anyways, after that, I colored it in with colored pencils. No, I didn't really have the nice Prismacolors that alot of people seem to raving about it. I used "Prang" instead...which I think is a pretty nice brand too.

Umm...after that, scanned and did a SLIGHT edit with Photoshop (fixed the Curves and Colors a bit). Also smudged out the eges of the firebird to show the way fire moves. After that, signed and there ya have it.

Hope you like it,

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