Pacifica, Scrapped Princess

Practicing with my tablet, this was done entirely in GIMP - no pencil line art scanned in! You can't see them, but I used 's Real Pencil Brushes to sketch this out (those brushes really helped me feel at ease drawing digitally!). GIMP's ink brush for the lineart and then colored the usual way. The background came from 's Smoke Brushes.

I still have a ways to go, especially with inking cleaner, but feels good to do something totally in GIMP with the tablet. I'll need to learn coloring blending and backgrounds... tall order ahead.

The character is Pacifica Casull, the title character of Scrapped Princess. I like the anime, it had a very good English dub. The story doesn't necessarily do anything new, but it does what it does very well.