Art trade with Neocoolstar, 2013

Drawn 7-27.

This is an art trade with ~neocoolstar. I drew this character: fav.me/d5f32rh

This thing caused me so much grief. I got most of the pose really easily, and I loved it, BUT THEN.

First was her far leg. I couldn't freaking place it right. I tried at least twenty times... and I only finally got it decent by literally holding it in front of the bathroom mirror and drawing in the mirror.

And then there's the skirt.

I'd tried to make the skirt flow as best I could, and so the original body lines got covered up and erased, because the air in the skirt expanded the backside and all that. Then I discovered the sides of her skirt were supposed to be metal. Dropping a colossal F-bomb because that would make this pose impossible, I decided to just try and make it look like tight cloth. Since I'd lost my original body lines, that was a freaking disaster, and I tried to revert it back to the way it was before, because it was horrible. I couldn't quite get it how it was again. I'm really wishing I hadn't messed with it.

So... here she is, looking kind of less good than she should've, but those few good art days I had working on her evaporated by the time I had to fix the skirt and all that. *sigh*