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Flowers of Heaven

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tumblr post (also featuring a version without flower crowns and close-ups) | facebook post 
A little birthday gift for
:icontoto088: birthday cake :party:

And, for once, it's not belated or something as I actually finished the picture three days ago xD Considering that Photoshop decided to corrupt my savefile when I just finished basecoloring the background that's kinda impressive, then again I owe a big thank you to Anira-the-Fox for saving the background from that broken file - and probably saving me from a lot of nerve-wrecking inking and frustration :glomp: Once more, thank you so much ;A;

Back to the picture though. I always wanted to draw flower crowns, I'm not even sure why, but they just seem like a nice feature in a picture to me. This picture gave me the perfect opportunity to do so, considering that Grace seems to like flowers a lot XD So yeah, that's basically how I got the initial idea, then I started sketching and ended up with this ;w; I must admit: drawing flower crowns is kind of hard. It takes a lot of time on any level of drawing and frustrated me every then and now (especially while inking because I hate inking in general). Nonetheless I'm glad that I gave it a try, it looks nice in my opinion and is a nice addition to the picture which gives it actually a little more warm colors in all that white and blue and green :XD:

I don't think there's much to say about Grace and Celeste though... I'm satisfied with how both turned out, mainly because I struggles a lot with the sketch, getting the poses and anatomy right or at least save it from looking too weird after all. I actually wanted to draw Grace hugging Celeste from the very beginning, which turned out slightly problematically as she's a little shorter than Celeste and also pretending to have one character being covered too much by the other turned out more tricky than I expected in the beginning. I'm rather satisfied with how it turned out in the end, yet I realize that poses - especially interacting poses between characters - is one of my weak points right now, so I should focus on that a little more ^^;

I'm not sure what else I could say... for the background I tried to imagine what Solace, the Heaven in my character's story, looks like - or more likely what it looks like outside of town. Yeah... I remember I once wanted to draw concept arts of places appearing in that story, maybe I should do that for future pictures. Might turn out helpful, as I haven't done that many landscape backgrounds lately ^^;

I guess all together it's fair to say that this is one of my more detailled pictures this year. I noticed that I haven't drawn that much so far in 2014, mainly because university got more and more intense, forcing me to drop drawing for weeks every then and now - which is a pity actually, because it's what I enjoy the most in my free time besides playing games. I hope I'll have the time to draw more pictures like this in the future again now that university cooled down a bit. I hope to be able to finish my Halloween picture in time, as well as a contest entry I definitely want to finish soon afterwards >A< *keeps fingers crossed*  And with that I'm off, sketching and stuff... hyay~
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:star::star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star: Impact

Once again, your artwork never ceases to amaze me. The luscious detail, the style, the fact that it's just so cute, everything looks amazing and makes me even more determined to make the best Sonic artwork I can. It must be noted that in terms of getting better, well, you are. Granted, your artwork is always incredible (and it makes me want to play some more Sonic the Hedgehog. ^3^) and will never stop making me smile. The characters, once again, are beyond adorable and it actually makes me think that it looks a lot like SEGA art. Nice job!