I'm going to post the pictures I made for my second land before time story, "The Cold Time" here. Unlike the colored pencil drawings I made for "The Big Quarrel" these are all made with aquarelle pencils. Those colored pencils whose pigments are not waterresistant so they will dissolve in water which gives the possibility to use them for many soft effects if the finished picture is later worked over with a wet brush (which is the technique I use almost all the time). Alternatively harder but still blurred lines can ge created by using the pencils on a wet surface. The hardest lines can be achieved by wetening the lead of the aquarelle pencils and use them on a dry surface. Another way to create hard lines is to draw them like you would draw a hard line with a normal pencil and then wet it with a very thin pencil following exactly that line. This is what I did for all of the pictures for the basic outlines of at least the characters but almost always also for the outlines of the landscapes etc. Anyway, if you have any questions, or comments, or criticism or anything to say on the technique, the pictures, their content, the story excerpts going along with the pictures, my own comments to the pictures or anything please, please, please DO speak your mind there is nothing that makes you feel as stupid as getting no reaction at all. Even rotten tomatoes (in case they come with a reason) are preferable than death-silence. More of you have read this story I think (due to the fact that it is written in what comes much closer to English though there are still mistakes).
