Sometimes all is right in the world.

What a difference a few days makes. This is obviously a follow up to my last drawing. Gemma liked that one so much she begged me to do another with the roles switched. I hadn't intended to do it so soon. Really I was just sketching around in photoshop and just kept working on one in particular and then huzzah, finishsed pic. Well it wasn't quite that simple but you get the idea.

Obviously things look a little different from last time around. The biggest difference is that I kept the lineart. Lately i'll just sketch out something and paint over it since the lines are usually too messy. This time I spent awhile cleaning them up so that I could use them. It was something I didn't orginally plan on doing but I went with it.

*EDIT* Can't beleive I forgot another rather important bit of info. Unlike last time i actually used a photo reference right from the get go

The coloring is different too. Not much of a change in how i went about doing it, i really just tried to go faster and not be as conservative with the colors. I have a bad habbit of working with rather saturated colors and then going back to mess with the contrast and such once the pic is complete. I didn't really have to do that this time around and im happy for that.

A small part of me wants to go and paint this without the lineart to see if it will look as nice... Hmmm...

The expressions are switched from the previous picture. I did intend that for the sketch but not in the final peice I had in mind.

I like that it turned out that way though. What little back story there is (as in what i make up while coloring) had Gemma escaping from the duct tape and turning on her roommate. There wasnt enough tape left for a gag so an old rag was used. The kicker is that Gemma took the own stuffing from her mouth and shooved it right into her roomie's mouth. You cant see it because the knotted rag blocks it ^_^