2016-05-30

A piece I did for an art contest on Discord. The goal was to draw this character in a suggestive, but not NSFW, picture. I hope this cuts the bill. The prize for winning is 50 CAD. Which is like 37$. Don’t actually think I’m going to win, but it’d be nice to.

Really like how it came out. Especially the shading and the scars. I actually put a lot of effort into the scars, since the person running the contest mentioned that the scars in the reference image weren’t great.

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