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Finally got the pic done for for catching my 1000th pageview Actually could've finished this way earlier, but oh wells (:
Request of a picture of her and her OC, Rose
Went through a couple of ideas before I went with this one, mostly cause I couldn't figure out how to draw the others properly XD
Initial sketch only took about three hours, which means I get to moan about parts of the pic that I don't like cause I rushed through them in the sketching process. Oh wells, it means that I get to exercise my complainin' skills
Eyes are wayyy too big, just don't fit in with Kei's character. Rose's hair came out looking ok, though I don't think I managed to make it look quite "slightly curled, more like a curve". Kei's hair managed to look quite awkward, doesnt flow as well as I would like it to. Eyes are also positioned strangely, though that might just be because I tried to draw everything on a slant.
Spent about an hour or two cleaning up the scan, not much to say about that. Not going to scan in a sketch at 300 dpi ever again, though.
About 4 hours was spent on the actual colouring, which consisted of slapping on flats and then brushing some shades on with a watercolourlike brush. The skin looked horrendous, I tell ya. Spent about 20 minutes OCDing on the hair shine, cause I was too lazy to actually colour the hair. Kei's eyes didn't come out looking forward like I wanted them to, but instead they're a bit off to the side. Decided that it didn't look TOO bad, and just left them (read: lazy)
The entire background was pretty much experimenting with gradients and renders. It might just be the part I like best about this pic XD Slapped on some low saturation brown on top, played around a bit with blending options. The brown really made the pic look much better than it was, put some colour into it and made it warmer. Seeing as I was playing around and experimenting, it took a bit longer than it should've, taking up about one and a half hours.
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Adobe Photoshop, pencil and 8.5" x 11" paper
~ 8 and 1/2 hours