This is for Deuco of his character Miss Brr. I sketched it by hand, scanned it, resketched it digitally, printed it, traced it on a light table with colored pencil, colored it with colored pencil, scanned it, and did a lot of digital touch-up. So like most of my recent artwork this is a pretty good combination of traditional and digital media. I didn't actually plan on doing that much digital cleanup, but once I started I liked how nice it looked so I kept going. You can see the before-and-after digital cleanup image here: [link]

I worked at an extremely high resolution for this image. A friend of mine () showed me that a plethora of errors can be hidden if you're working at high enough resolution. So you can see the actual size I was working at here: [link]

I couldn't tell you how many hours I spent on this (you think I'd have found a way to keep track by now, alas) but if I had to guess... I'd say more than ten but probably less than twenty. Which is pretty good for me!

I am really very happy with this image. I know, I'm still not as good as a lot of the people on DA, not even as good as many of my friends, but I think this shows a great improvement in my art over the last several years. I keep all my old artwork, and I improved a lot between 1995 and 2000, but then I hit a plateau and stopped improving. Sure, my artwork got a little better, but I really wasn't making the kind of progress that you'd think would come with so many years. But I finally see a lot of improvement and it makes me very happy.

This image was an absolute pleasure to work on, I hope Deuco likes it!

(EDIT) I realize the mask is FUBAR, but I don't have time to poke at it now. I may do so tomorrow.

(EDIT2) WOW. The colors blended together PERFECTLY at work (which is where I worked on this) and they don't blend AT ALL on my computer at home. It actually looks kinda awful.

(EDIT3) Okay, I re-blended some of the pink areas, and I fixed the mask. Or at least made it less FUBAR.