Christmas: A New Hope ???

Or, you know, whatever. All-around-great-guy Lar de Souza provided the line art and I just coloured it in.

A generic, ordinary..not that wookies are ordinary for Christmas... but average colouring.

And a little something different...

.. and a minor variant to that something different.

Poseidon & Pirates

This is a blending of two of the Sketch_Dailies twitter topics: the pirate Anne Bonny and Poseidon.  I figured the Greek God of the Sea might not be too keen on pirates causing wrecks and dumping corpses into his domain without his express consent.

Water effects are fun to play with, but can difficult to get right in a convincing manner.

Try something new

I usually like trying new things, especially if it'll let me expand my skills and hone or stretch my abilities.

So for this, I wanted to kind of reverse my normal method.
A sketch layer, a shade layer, and everything else on one layer. Line-art in the colour of the item. Fill it in a slightly different shade of same colour.

Not a terrible re-imagining for Sketch_Dailies' topic of The Riddler, but if you figure he's wearing a bald-cap, and a wig on top of it... plus the eye-mask, well, maybe that ain't too bad. Most of the redesign went into the trade-mark ?-cane.  A bit more short-blade sickle, and I figured hey, green & purple, a lot of weapons nowadays have circles punched through them for weight balancing and what-not, why not do that, but fill'em with the other costume colour ? I think I spent 2 hours start to finish, with a lot of revision in the sketch phase.

While most of the picture could burn, I am really please with how Edward's shoes came out.