Final version. I could do more tweaking with this picture, but it's really a piece of throw-away art. I would be more interested if I knew something about the character.
Earlier versions:
Prints are available on DeviantART.
Final version. I could do more tweaking with this picture, but it's really a piece of throw-away art. I would be more interested if I knew something about the character.
Earlier versions:
Prints are available on DeviantART.
Completed version. My rough estimate is that it took 25 hours in total to complete, and it was more than worth it. While the positioning and composition of the image isn't complicated, it uses nearly every trick I know.
Previous versions:
Prints, up to 12x18, are available at DeviantART.
Just a little drawing. I'm surprised I still can turn out half-way decent pieces like this given how little I use my drawing skills any longer.
This image started out as a pencil drawing. While the simplicity can be enjoyable, I spent some time cleaning up the static read during the scanning process. I had forgotten how annoying that is. I also had forgotten to draw the side-strip and pocket cover on Novella's jacket. After reconfiguring my tablet on Linux (I had lost it in a reformat a few weeks ago), I added the missing details digitally. I'm rather surprised how that turned out.
Maybe Catgirls can be Haibane too?
I drew this while sitting in a conference at the IBM IMPACT event in Las Vegas in 2008. I was worried about my flight the next day; the weather was horrible in Minneapolis and I feared a delay. I needed a little confidence booster, and this image (and the person who motivated it) helped me through.
The sketch is really messy since I only had one pen at the time. I tried to clean it up a bit -- remove the prep lines, fix some obvious errors -- but I could only fix so much without redoing the entire image.
An idea I had a few days ago for a new web theme.
