Black Rock Shooter

Black Rock Shooter fan art. Did her more in my style. But, I think that made her look too old and likely too angry. Ah well.

Pencil, color pencil and marker. A little clean up in Photoshop.

Practice

First, let us not speak of that Opportunity girl drawing again. It fought me all day, the inks turned out terrible... Better to move on and try again.

Anyway, here's something I did for practice today.

Oppy in progress

Five years, five years after I drew the girly version of the Spirit Mars rover (http://atomicpanda.com/galimage09.html) I've started on Opportunity or "Oppy" as JPL refers to her on the MarsRover Twitter account they've set up.

Spirit and Opportunity pretty much got their personalities from the two LJ accounts that pretended to be by the two rovers way back when. Neither is still updated. Five years is a dang long time to write a pretend rover journal, especially since the rovers were only supposed to last 90 days. Anyway, if you missed it they were http://opportunitygrrl.livejournal.com/ and http://spiritrover.livejournal.com/

Spirit came across as more, I dunno, angsty (she had a harder time than Opportunity) and Opportunity more perky. So, I dressed her more... I don't know if 'prepy' is the right term but a lot less Hot Topic than Spirit. Also thought I'd throw in a slight nod to Botticelli.

Anyway, think I might ink it in Flash. Been meaning to practice doing that. Or, I dunno. Maybe I'll do it traditional so I have something I can sell. Heck, both?

Two part commission done! Took longer than I'd have liked but at least it's finished and I can get on to the next thing.

Each half is around 30 x 11 inches. The person who ordered it, I'm sure, didn't think they'd be this size but I wanted to do something special.

It's marker, watercolor and acrylic on thick, rag watercolor paper. Stuff was murder on markers. Hope he likes it. 'Course, this means I have room for another commission if anyone is interested.

Some coloring fun

This is art by Chris Sanders (Chrissandersart.com alohalilo on Deviant Art). I only did the colors.

I debated about posting this for a long while. It seems that coloring his work is something the artist encourages. But, I've never actually heard back from him. I really, really do not like doing anything with anyone else's art without their clear say so, but this time, since so many people have colored his work with only positive reactions from him, I'm going to take the chance that it's OK.

I will, of course, take it down if he decides he doesn't want it up.

There is the possibility that the alohalilo DA account isn't really him. Since almost all the art there is art that can be found in Chris Sanders' art books, there is no link to his site and the email listed is different from the email address at Chrissandersart.com, I have some doubts. The only thing that seems to prove it's legit, to me, is that it's been around so long, if it were fake, some one surely would have told him by now.

So to recap, the art wasn't done by me. I just did the colors.