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Okay, here's the story about this pic. Two days ago I found a topic in the forum posted by SamuraiNataku asking people to do art trades with her. I quickly looked at her gallery and which characters she wanted illustrated the most and this came forth. Not sure exactly why she's wearing her polar coat while at the beach (especially in the water... XD), but hey-maybe there were guys around and she didn't have a swimsuit underneath? I dunno. I know her character daydreams and spaces out a lot, so maybe she forgot she had it on... I had started it out as a drawing with her arms crossed instead, but I finally gave up and took the cheap route, making her lower body in water instead. XD

This sketch was penciled using a 0.7 mechanical pencil for the rough structure then expanded using a 4H drawing pencil. Also, a gum eraser was used... A lot. XD For the rough structure I drew for about a couple minutes just looking at the source image and then looking down at my horrible sketch to modify it thereafter. I scanned it in at 600 dpi to get all the lines, then cloned over the unnecessary chaff. That took me about forty-five minutes. :P Then I decided that I wanted to color it badly, and so I spent two hours on that in Gimp 2.0 on my tablet pc... XD ... And then dA went into maintenance mode immediately after I logged in and clicked submit. So I tried waiting and read some comics and listened to some music for an hour and went to bed. :P :'( Hope she likes it! XD Took me two hours and forty-five minutes all in all.

Nataku is copyright to :iconsamurainataku:

Original images are here: [link] ...and here!: [link]

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:iconsamurainataku:
You got some of the colors wrong but Im deffinently glad you drew her! Thank you!

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~houshinengiclub <--join. you know you wanna.
:iconmix-o-freak:
Eeh?! What did I get wrong? The black fur? I lightened it so you could see the fur instead of a blotch of black... :( Or do you mean I'm slightly off on the hair? 'Cause I didn't copy it from the colored picture, just used it as ref... XD Oh well, glad you liked it! :D

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~mix-o-freak, the other white meat.

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:iconsamurainataku:
LOl, nothing to worry about now.

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~houshinengiclub <--join. you know you wanna.
:iconmix-o-freak:
XD Okay. :P

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~mix-o-freak, the other white meat.

Want me to explain my name?
Listen up!

Mix as in a mixture or grouping
-o as in of
-freak as in outsider, outcast, etc.

Just a sane man in a crazy world.

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