Spin Me Tales of Fire Eyes

Part of an art trade with *fireeyes-dragon . She's sculpting the totemic droemar on my DA ID; I practically fell to the floor when she contacted me. She likes my art! When a master artist contacts you, you react in the same way you would to a god: bow deeply, and thank them profusely. We did a spirit animal trade: this is Reiji, her totemic creature. I tried to go for a pose that evoked Reiji just coming out of a spin and preparing to dive.

This scanned a good deal darker than the original, and it's also much smaller. I think this is on 17x14 Archer's paper, paper of the divinities. It can take a heck of a beating without looking bad. Since this is about 40 hours of watercolor washes and colored pencil, I was glad for it. This also recaptured my earlier ability to do art at work while on the phone. Didn't get any comments on my art skillz though; I think in truth people were probably like "Uh ... what is she working on over there!?"

I'm pretty pleased with this, since it was a new media experiment and all. The paint spattering is the only thing that I should've known was going to cause trouble, but half the time I think I'm working in digital media. There were a couple of times that it was "Aaah! Control-Z! Control-Z!!"