Back on May 3, 2012, I was just feeling uninspired and uncreative -- I had my pen in my hand and had no idea what to do with it. I don't know why -- probably just tired. But then in chat, lildreamer (as the kitten version of her Aurora Aura character) decided to inspire me by posing, and immediately erin-cloverfox put a cookie on her head. I had to draw that. Thankoo you two :) *HUGS *

Since I can't do anything normally, I sketched this in Sai, then did the line work in Adobe Illustrator to see how its brush stroke smoothing would look. Then I sent it back to Sai for coloring and shading and finishing touches. Also, this was a new type of eye that I was working on after studying my own eyes carefully. This eye method is one I used for quite a while after this and will probably still sometimes use.

Aura character belongs to ; art is © 2012 me