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"Caipirinha, caipirinha, whoaaa~ yeaah~"

Lawlawl. Shanrai looks like he's doing that caipirinha dance meme... thing. Except flipped. 8D;

Anyways, not much to say beyond, "Oh my gawd, I'm being productive?!" I guess university is having that effect on me now that assignments aren't due the next day or the day after or anything. o__o And I'm producing OCs to top it all~ Crazy stuuuff.

About the Piece
I originally I was going to do another winter scene or something (Lawl, how typical) when my sister walks in and goes, "Aww, I thought you were going to have him standing in front of a chalkboard!" ...so I changed it. And then there ended up being a lot of empty space, so I filled it in with internet dialect. I did a good chunk of experimentation on this piece. I didn't even know a chalk brush even came with Photoshop 7.0, - apparently there is one! The chalkboard and window are totally new for me, and that little kitty out of chalk on the chalkboard? Yeah, it's become a mascot of sorts for me for the past few years. Also, I haven't done a fall picture in years, so here's one now! Aren't the colours really pretty? =] I guess Shanrai is trying to demonstrate that the English language has gone to all hell. Shanrai = <3

Shanrai is my first and still my favourite character I ever made and has gone through a bunch of revamps since, but then I ended up going back to his original design but with some minor changes. I'm really happy with his current design~

Credits
Art: © Silberr
Character(s): Shanrai Hiragashi (Original Character) © *Silberry
Finished On: October 06, 2009
Tools: Scanned pencil sketch, Photoshop 7.0 with tablet for lineart, and mouse with Photoshop 7.0 for the colouring
Layers: 60
Time Taken: Two days.