Alchemist - Mathias Cronqvist

So, I'm not dead. Mostly I've just been creatively drained and uninspired to finish anything. Started this several months ago and finally picked it back up a few days ago. It's a small part of a planned much larger piece featuring the characters from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. I'm a complete Dracula fangirl so I finished Mathias first. Yes, for all the fact that I adore Alucard, Dracula is my obsession. MathiasxElisabetha OTP! XD

This will look different whenever I have the entire thing completed, but I figured I'd just do solo versions of each character as they were completed.

OMG, I'm actually drawing something, or rather finishing something. Either way, it's a great improvement for me.

Another great improvement came yesterday in the form of a scanner from a lovely and wonderful person.

So hopefully I'll actually have the inspiration and the means to finish things since I have been in a total creative rut.

So onto this piece. Drawn on computer paper -- I am so lame -- with a mechanical pencil and inked with my micros ... and then I took a digicam picture of it and tried to salvage this in Photoshop. This is why I love Photoshop though. I makes my shit look good. Took collectively maybe ten hours, but some of that was me just being lazy and staring at the screen. About forty layers toward the end, so not one of my larger pieces and fairly easy and fun.

Hopefully, I can keep this upbeat feel about drawing instead of being a lazy whore again. :\

Someone needs to whip me into shape, seriously.