EDIT: There are some videos for this now. YAY!!!
Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]

For foop's sake people, please comment.
The best time to wear a striped sweater... is all the time~ (especially on the back of a Dragonite)
I LOVE THIS DRAWING
Yes
I DOOOOO

I tried to go for a storybook look, I would love to illustrate children's books.
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...that rhymes.

Copic Marker, Copic Multiliner SPs, Ivory Cardstock, 3 hours total

Traded with for some pokemon cards as prizes for my art contest (which ended October the 31st, 2012 at midnight.) TRADES ARE CLOSED.

So. I love coloring night scenes, because lighting is one of my favorite things to play with when it comes to my Copic markers.

I'm proud of how the lighting from the moon and the golden glow from the umbreon play off the surroundings. I tried to stylize the moon a little bit, and it's probably one of my favorite parts about the picture, but I'm absolutely pleased with the soft glows from umbreon's rings. I haven't done something like this in a while so I feel like I've improved a lot since the last time.
The beautiful model is the sister of the person I am trading with. Her hair is so thick and long, like a princess' hair (that prolly sounds weird XD). So I feel like that turned out pretty nicely as well in terms of communicating that in the illustration.

I am happy with the composition and the flow of the drawing as well, although it does feel a little bit divided in half. Your opinion?

Things I should improve on include posing humans. I sketched this according to proper proportions but somehow I feel like her torso and legs are a tad too short when compared to her arms and head.

The neck/head may or may not be impossibly positioned, I am not sure. Thoughts would be appreciated on this either way.

I used a photo of my sister riding her horse in that position but in hindsight, the photo may have been angled toward the viewer while this is viewed mainly from the side....

I also feel like the shading is missing something... OH GLOB... the shadow from the Dragonite! Where is it? I went to add that in but the conflicting lightsources made it seem like there wouldn't be one, so I set it aside. What do you think?

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