Finally, finally finished this. It really shouldn’t have taken me months, since it’s just lineart. But (although i’m sure the commissioner would feel otherwise, and i don’t blame her at all if she wants to grill my slow butt) in hindsight i’m glad i took my time, simply because there’s no doubt that it would not have turned out anywhere near as well if it had been finished the week she requested it. Not that it’s perfect now, but for some reason my inking skill has suddenly and at long last levelled up. Not spectacullarly to Ev levels, but the difference is noticable to me.
And this is in no small part due to oogling the fan-flipping-tastic art of one Chelsea, aka Cacodaemonia. (i’ve been lurking at some of the HINABN fan places and looking at all the pretty fanstuff 8D; ) After the heartspewing stopped, i actually tried to figure out what exactly it was about the way she inked that just worked, and packed it away in my brain for future reference. There’s something so natural about her inks; sometimes inked pieces lack the movement and life of sketches–that’s always been a problem with my own inked stuff, and why i hate it–but hers don’t. It’s clean and lovely and still has that life to it. i don’t want to draw exactly the way that she (or anyone else) does, as beautiful as her style is; but if i can get as good as she currently is in my own way, that would give me a big happee.
…anyway, here’s some art.
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Mostly done in SAI; text, colour overlay (the original is all grey) and background brush added in Photoshop.
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