The Waltz - Commissionby =hikari-chan

Digital Art / Drawings / People

Commissioned by Sleepie.

Former guildmates of mine from the time I was in Lapis (more RO talk, heh), Sleepie and her boyfriend Mike (aka lilxaznboi) in wedding clothes. Sleepie's dress was modeled off the RO wedding dress, and Mike's tux is just your standard tuxedo (no direct reference used, stock brushes used to create pattern on his inset).

Anyway, I'm not sure if you can see it too well, but they are actually waltzing in a very shallow pool/fountain (note the poorly-rendered-by-hand faint ripples around their feet). Much of the color in this image is washed out since I wanted to give it a consistent glowy feeling throughout the image (so please, no comments on how some things are not shaded darkly enough). Also, since I'm terrible with techinical drawing/CGing, I used a stock photo for the tile base and adjusted the color, filtered it, and added "waves" to it to make it look like its underwater (though I obviously failed).

All technicalities aside, I had a lot of fun with drawing this commission mainly due to the angle which it required to have it fully show off the fact they are waltzing, and Sleepie's veil provided a new challenge for me, hehe. Not to mention that I LOVE drawing roses. You wouldn't know that unless I told you since I haven't had the chance to draw roses for a LOOOOOOONG time. I really liked doing all the things on and around their heads (hair, eyes, crown/tiara). After which, I got bored very fast on their clothes, lol.

Sketched with ink on paper. Outlined and colored in Photoshop CS.

Time to outline: ~10-12 hours
Time to color: ~20 hours
Total time: ~32+ hours

Art (c) =hikari-chan
Brushes used (c) respective owners
Sleepie and Mike (c) themselves
Stock photo from [link]