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Hey everyone!!! I'm so happy!!! Naruto Shippuuden FINALLY started, and I finally finished this pic!! I mean, I first thought of it, and started working on it(the original that I scrapped) wayyy back in August. But I seem to have a short attention span when it comes to art. I'll see my pic lying there on my desk, say I'm gonna work on it, and go do useless shit on my laptop for hours instead.

Anyway, it seems Deidara really does have a deep voice, and so it's 100% confirmed that he's, well, a he. Poo. Oh well, I knew that was the case(unlike like 6, 7 months ago when I first got hooked on Deidara, and really was sure peeps were wrong)- but when you really want something to happen, you still hold out hope against all odds. I've been keeping myself in denial, yet i knew it was true. But dammit, I didn't want it to be, and the anime was what would prove things.... I haven't seen the episode yet, but people have said the voice is real deep... so I'm just going to come to terms with what I already technically knew. I don't know, even as a guy, I didn't see Dei with a super deep voice though... :( And why are they up to the part with Deidara in it already, when they just started the timeskip today?! I don't get that, someone please explain...


Anyway, as I explained with the black and white version of this pic, I was kinda depressed one day after my uncle(well, great uncle) died... and I wasn't necessarily depressed about him per se, I barely knew him. It just got me thinking about my grandparents, and then death in general, and instead of my usual way of singing to vent emotions, I started drawing.

It bothered me that after Deidara seemed to look up to Sasori so much, and I don't know, I guess seemed to consider him about as close as you can get to a friend in Akatsuki(I doubt Sasori concurred, lol), that Deidara seemed to brush off his death like it was nothing. Tobi and Zetsu were around when he found out though, so like I said, maybe he just didn't want to seem affected at all in front of them- Tobi because he's annoying, and Deidara would want to seem superior in front of Tobi, and Zetsu because it would be embarassing?... I don't know. But anyway, I figured maybe when Deidara was alone, he might actually mourn Sasori's death. So I drew this.

Okay... I like everything except Deidara in the picture. I think I've got backgrounds down pat, after this, and the play background of Cologne I had to do for my sister's puppet show(the paper was to big for me to scan, so it's not on here). The shading on everything seems tolerable- the scanner messed it up, but it looks amazing in real life. The reason the gravestone looks like that is that it's supposed to be either granite or marble, and the darker parts are the veins running through. I know graves in Naruto look different, but hell, I drew this a week before the chapter with Asuma's funeral, and after all that, wasn't about to change it, so whatever. And the reason the flower bouquet is shaded the way it is is that that's supposed to be that shiny silver metallic paper they wrap flowers in sometimes. We had a flower thing like that in my Drawing class, and this is how my teacher told us to express the way that paper looks. I had a really nice gray sky shaded too, with light gray, and darker gray undertones to be lower clouds, but damned scanner only let the darker gray show...

But Deidara.... True, the scanner screwed the hair. I had that shaded perfectly!! But the feet and hands are too small- again!! And I still can't shade an article of clothing to make it look like it's been wrinkled. Look... I've tried everything, including using myself and various other people as visual aid to try to see how wrinkles look... Can anybody teach me an easy way to shade clothing?! I'm desperate!!!!! It looks like crap, mostly because of the weirdo wrinkle shading in Dei's cloak. It destroys the entire picture!!.... :(

But yeah, I'm really proud of everything else. I don't know what else to say. Let me know what you all think, and HAPPY NARUTO SHIPPUUDEN!!!! :)


Copyright me- well, except the characters of Deidara and Sasori that is. But this pic is copyright Aurora Marija.
Colored with Rose Art and Prang colored pencils, and an ultra fine Sharpie.
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BubzDesu's avatar
This is not okay
look at what you did to my feelings! :(