I started this illustration as part of a four-piece series (featuring stylized Eastern ladies) almost two years ago. I got pretty far with it before I realized that I hadn’t resized it properly before coloring and that it wouldn’t be suitable for print. Frustrated, I took a break and forgot about it… until earlier this week when I was cleaning out crowded desktop folders.
I love finding sketches and wips that I’ve forgotten about or misplaced; it makes them new and exciting again!
I loaded this one into PaintTool SAI, vectored over my original lineart, resized it, and colored it in Photoshop. Since I already had so much of the original piece finished, I was able to use it as a color reference and it made the whole process fly by! Now I’m feeling motivated to go digging through more of my old stuff and see if there are any other half-complete projects I can salvage…
~Dalliann
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