Art for friend

[finem]

Ugh...this was a pain in my ass. But it was worth it...mostly. I think it came out decently, and I think I learned a lot from the process so, yay! This is hippy!Axel by glass_metric since she's been so great in helping me out with one of my stories. I have far too many and update far too infrequently in my opinion, but I'm practicing my typing a lot more

Comments

[israel_project]

Wow, incredibly pretty! The shadow is fantastic, and the colouring and EVERYTHING! The cig smoke totally doesn't suck even slightly - although I agree, BAD AXEL! I love the way his hair changes colour the light. Much love for this pic :D

[finem]

much thanks, love! Took a fair amount of tinkering for me to get it to a level of acceptable that I could deal with. I put more layers into this puppy than I have in a long time, but I'm fairly pleased. The lines kinda bug me, but I'm still working out how to resolve that. Blah...someday, this is gonna be easy for me. just gotta keep on practicing.

[beckychan]

The shadow work is fan-freaking-tastic. When I can see it better on dA, I'll make betterer comments.

[finem]

'-' *blink blink*

Wow! I'm so glad it pleases! ^__^ This is actually attempt number 2 as far as the drawing is concerned, and the colors...yeah...took a while. the bg was actually really spontaneous. I wasn't sure exactly what was gonna happen back there, but I just went at it with the my brush tool and well...you see what happened.

Gosh, I'm glad you like it and that it fits closely enough to what you were envisioning. A few ppl have been saying that it doesn't look hippy-ish enough so I was a bit worried. Gah. Gonna stop being so art-emo and just accept your compliments. Thanx!

[aeternitasbeach]

found this from glass_metric's page and had to say: he looks soooooooo pretty *___* and the shadow was a nice touch~

[lewdness]

Eee, so pretty!! I adore the sky in the background, that's a really neat touch with how you blended it with the rest of the picture- and of course Axel. ♥♥♥ So cool~