Here are two presents which I painted for other people! There are three more presents waiting to be given, so you won’t get to see them until next week. : D

First! For Aja of True Magic the webcomic, Gauth Schönen!

Appropriately enough, I was in the middle of my Tsubasa binge, so I decided to make him as over-the-top Japanese-y pretty bishie as I could. Which is not very much, but it’s more than usual. I also tried out a new technique – using the regular brush on partial opacity. Other people use this to great effect and I’d like to get better at it. I actually really like this picture. : )

Second, for Aywren and Syntyche of Wayrift webcomic, Aur, from Dreigiau! In three versions!

1 – regular colour, from the pencil sketch (but redoing the arm to be more dynamic ; )

2 – experimenting with shadow and highlight layers set on ‘soft light’, which looked cool on their own

3 – and the final, in which I stole a picture of a lion off the internet (actually, from a page with a really cute story)

Eheheh… I kinda went all out. Except the background is a little whatever. Anyway. Aur is my favourite character, I think.  ^_^7 I was meaning to colour this for a while, but didn’t get the time until recently.

Merry Christmas and custard.