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DEERY ACTUALLY POSTS A DRAWN THING!? WHAT YEAR IS IT?

Er... no, but seriously. This thing. I've been drawing this throughout so many weeks' course now, I think. And I only redid this about 1900 times. But even though I'm so sick of drawing this that I want to puke just upon looking at this, I'm still proud of the overall result. I admit, I had tons of fun experimenting with various things here, plus I tested out a new method of shading (which takes too much time, so I ought to switch to something else). Aaand I also made good use of SAI for the first time ever, and it was like discovering fingerpaints as a kid. It's really damn easy and fun at the same time, and drawing those nicely blending impressionist strokes was pretty nice, so I'll definitely make further use of SAI.

I improved Rani's concept greatly. The were-cat form, especially. On the first picture from the left, you can get an idea of what Rani's purple magic looks like. The second picture demonstrates bad anatomy that I didn't want to fix Rani's dual scimitars, Bloodreave (the golden one) and Soulrend (the silver one). This also shows the garments Rani wore when she escaped the arena once and for all. The third picture shows Rani's collection of scars on the back.

I really thought that I can't shade for shit before working hard on this particular picture... but after all this work, I actually feel a little better about my skills. I was almost losing faith for some time here... but the intentional grayscale shading scheme is really helpful, and I advise that to everyone who wishes to better their shading skills. And that's just about all I can tell for this piece's progress. :meow:

One thing I will tell y'all, though. NEVER. WILL. I. DO. IT. LIKE. THIS. AGAIN. Maybe. From here on in, I'll only do crappy speedpaints and doodles for a while. Or just chibis. Chibis are easy.

Hope you like it, and sorry for yet another wall of explaining text that I always love writing. ^^;

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Program: 98% of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8, and an old version of SAI for the magic effects displayed on the leftmost picture, which makes around 2% used.
References: Two random scimitar references from the Internet (none were replicated, the scimitar designs are my own). Then I stared at a random panther photo to get an idea how Rani's head should look like, but I changed it so much that it doesn't even resemble the original anymore. I also looked at numerous naked womens' backs... genuinely for research and shading purposes. I looked at various photos of reflective cat eyes too, but nothing was replicated. And for final, I used this tutorial: fav.me/d6p1yzh
Time: :icontoodamnhighplz: ...no, but seriously. Exact time is unknown, but I wouldn't be surprised if it actually is around 10 hours.
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dRedStar's avatar
woah guuurl
you're amazing
like omfg
these look great
I don't even know which one of these three drawings do I like most, they're all wonderful!!
I love the shading, and damn love the jewelry and swords, the way they shine ;v;
your skills have become so awesome, this is truly beautiful, I really like this character ahh so pretty ;_;