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Jack of Hearts

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I'm so happy to have this up and ready to share with you all and prove that I'm not dead. Adjusting to graduate school has really gotten in the way of my art...

It seems that I'm slowly sliding into making a complete playing card deck. This is the Jack of Hearts, featuring my lavender-haired snow leopard Yukiko, one of the characters from my Himeko story, and my white skunk Raina, a character I designed way back in 1997-98 as part of my Summer Girls group.

It was tricky to do the color composition on this one, since Yukiko has midtones and Raina is mostly black and white. I think I pulled it off, though. Yukiko's signature colors are pink and purple, and Raina's are purple and violet, so they were logical choices for one of the cards in the hearts suit. I haven't drawn Raina in so long that I think messed up on her recipe a bit...

And because I can never decide which way is up, here is the image flipped: [link]

It was nice to use a different palette for this one. It's been a long time since I've worked with lots of pinks and purples, and it was fun to get them to work together. It's almost eye-sheering in the original :) I also wanted to get one of my traditional works up in my recent deviations, since this style is a little more representative of my strengths. And now I can go try new styles again *wanders off to draw and avoid homework again*

Pigma Micron 005 for the inks, Prismacolor colored pencils for the color, and gel pen for the highlights. Maybe 15 hours to complete.
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CoolCSD1986's avatar
That's very nice. :)