Commission: Flower

This is one of the commissions I talked about yesterday; a friend's character named Hua (Chinese for "Flower"). She's adorable and was really fun to do. Usually I have trouble with longer muzzled animals, but she cooperated beautifully.

Completion

This was actually completed yesterday within an hour of my last entry, but since I saw no point in posting twice in the same afternoon, I decided to wait and put it up today.

I ended up just using a Photoshop brush on the shirt. It's not exactly like the one on the website, but it passes. Technically the office I designed for Ivan has stuff on the walls, but I didn't want to take away from the foreground with a bunch of clutter back there.

Also, a couple of people have commissioned me and already paid, so that's what you can expect to see in the next few entries.

Sap - Now in Partial Color

Still looking decent. I was planning to add the pattern on the white of her shirt by hand. Then I took a close look at it and realized that would be completely insane. So while I touch it up in Photoshop and maybe add a simple background, I'm going to see about finding some sort of lace brush to download.

It certainly feels nice to be finishing another drawing so soon after my last one.

All Line Up

Okay, this looks loads better now that it's inked and the figures are done. I'm currently undecided on how much of a background it'll have even though I know what Ivan's office looks like (In my head of course, not officially).

Also, Lien is wearing a shirt that I saw online. Isn't it pretty? I'm currently undecided on how I'll do the pattern, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Right now I'm just pleased that I made it to the inking stage.

Random fact: In Vietnam it's a tradition that only the mother may touch an infant for thirty days after he/she is born. That'd be frustrating.

Onward Ho!

So the art block is still mercifully non-existent, and to keep it that way I'm just rolling with whatever kind of mood I'm in. Right now it's a sappy fan art mood, so you'll have to bear with me until this drawing is complete and it's out of my system.

More Hetalia characters, Ivan (Russia) and Lien (unofficial name of Vietnam), and also a little addition that's incubating. Yes, clothes are coming. This is just how I work.

Dreaming In Color

I finished it! ...I guess that's all I have to say. Too tired for much else

Dreaming In Color...ish.

How is it that I was better at coloring in the lines when I was ten than I am now? Well, either way, here's the coloring progress. Thank God for Photoshop, but I decided to not apply any touch-ups with it until I'm actually done.

I haven't finished with the shading because I wanted something to do to take breaks from the hundreds (perhaps thousands) of dots I have yet to add. Once again, this is the dress I'm drawing.

I'll probably finish this today because I'm in a bit of a pinch. My car is out of gas and my bank account is out of money, so I can't get to work. So uh... if anyone wants to throw a commission my way? That'd be nice. My next pay day isn't until the 22nd.