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I finished this pastel nightmare by the skin of my teeth this morning, and now I have to go cook, AAHHHH, but HAPPY EASTER to those of you who celebrate it, and yet another happy Candy Sales Eve to those of you who do not!
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I sure hope I finish this by Easter.
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I just kept comin’ back to it between other projects. As far as warm-ups go, this many people will warm you up and then some, as it turns out!
I also intend to Nightmares Fear Factory the cast of Boss Monster, and Vanished, for later warm-ups. Why? Well… why not?
So, ultimately
it will take me like THREE TIMES the normal allotted time to do these Nightmares Fear Factory warm-ups, so one of them equals three warm-ups.

but I think it will be worth-it* and additionally I don’t care.
*If you have your own characters, you know that they probably deserve this for what they have put you through.
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mortalityplays:
Let it be known that Sephiramy is a huge sweetheart, and draws a comic that is almost (almost) as lovely as her. She’s generous with her time and her knowhow and her compassion for random internet strangers, and is pretty much just an all round star in my book.
I’ve been itching for a while to draw Esteban, who is pretty much my favourite kind of character (and easy on the eyes to boot), but when I sat down to do it I decided at the last second to try my hand at Mona instead. She’s just so goddamn adorable! She’s also really nicely designed, and I feel like I suddenly know her a lot better just from paying closer attention to the way she looks.
Anyway, Sephiramy owns, and everyone should smother her in love.
No one warned me when I woke up that today would be a good day! You have to warn me about these things, I can only handle so many good vibes, but AHHHH! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH <3 I got a cute Mona, from Rosa aka author of Mythos!! And she’s ADORABLE! Not only is this so cute, but it comes with like - PERSONAL COMPLIMENTS? About ME?? SHUCKS! Well, you couldn’t have been any sweeter, as it is, but you went for it, haha. THANK YOU, thank you, thank YOU, she looks great and I’m really flattered!
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geekysideburns:
That one time I made Amy’s Mona into animu.
Magical Mariachi Maiden Mona coming soon to a VHS near you.
We really should have thrown in something about “maracas” in there, even if it’s a bit redundant! My life is made infinitely cooler by the fact that Kristen draws me these things, haha. HEY, whatever happened to genderbent Mona??
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mariealbertine:
Amy’s Mona!
O-oh, oh. OH! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!! Oh my God an ADORABLE MONA drawn by Gabi!! I LOVE that this color palette is like, dead-on, bright and fun, 100% everything that I want. Even her little PURSE is adorable, fwwaahhhhhh!! AND SHE LOOKS SO HAPPY! I WILL ROLL AROUND ON A PILE OF FAN ART FOR ME! <3333
Thank you thank you thank you thank you!! I love her and I love your art, this was such an amazing surprise!
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And FINALLY!
A sincere happy holidays to all of my followers and all of your loved ones, too. May your days INDEED be merry and bright, and I’m looking forward to a productive and pleasant 2013!
Aaaaand, okay okay, since we did the comparison for every other step… here was the 2010 version, again.

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Some further progress on the redo, now with flat colors! And of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t include the 2010 version for comparison:

It’s interesting to see that before it appears I did all the golds and hair tones right onto the flats. Hm!
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I was finally able to warm my fingers enough to get these inks down! TIME TO COLOR!
Also, for those of you following along at home and interested in the fact that this image is a tentative “redo” of another from 2 years ago, here are the original inks from 2010.
