After many hours of painting and texturing, the finished piece emerges. All told I only used a grand total of 4 different brushes on this piece, one hard round, one soft round, one loose scatter brush, and one "fuzzball" brush for creating the fu… more »

After the rough colors, the real work begins of rendering the more detailed painting into the piece. I also added a lantern to help introduce a warmer, soft light source near her face. more »

Onto the next step, which is to rough in the colors to get a quick idea of what I want in the illustration. more »

Continuing from the last post. This illustration is beginning to shape up after going over it again and refining some of the features. Most notably the apples are now much more well defined, her eyes are a bit larger to match the source material mor… more »

One of the bits of advice I got back at Anime Boston was that it's often best to create prints of characters and series that you feel are underrepresented in anime fandom and more specifically, the artist alley. It serves two purposes. The first is that… more »