Tada!

My finished-enough product of a recent tutorial I found.
http://bluestonearcher.tumblr.com/post/94008423609/bluekomadori-the-tutorial-of-how-i-achieve

Lots of little things are leaping out at me to fix, but for now I'm really rather happy.

One of the things I dislike about my "usual process" is that I've basically spent most of my "art career" attempting to draw comics. Nothing wrong with that, of course, I enjoy it. The one big thing that that focuses on, however, is tight lines and tight colors. My hand simply isn't trained to do loosy-goosy coloring that's necessary to really make watercolor shine. I can watercolor in real life - in fact I love doing it. It'd super fast, I can get results that I find pleasing (if not tight) and I can ink over after the fact, with varying degrees of "true to the original intent" to get the point across.

Digitally? Well, the tablet is perfect for drawing tight to the original intent. The Cintiq is even worse, since the hand is directly over the art again (believe me, I often forego my "real" Cintiq and my home made one, in favor of the tablet). So, the tutorial worked well, I think. Not sleeping for two days straight might've helped too.

Oh, and I wanna do a booo to my art teachers for barely teaching how to mix colors for skintones, and ignoring any skintone other than "burst into flame" European. Yeah, watercolor can do a good job at capturing those skintones... with a hell of a lot of work and subtly. But ya know what? I had one heck of a lot of fun with this dragon girl and artist should have fun drawing folks of every color. Especially blue. I love blue people.

...I need sleep.

....Right. Rant over. Have art.