"Tragedy: Tokyo Knight" by Curt Rapala

I tried to upload this a while back, but I accidentally used a curse word in the description, so the whole thing got denied.

Don't you love technicalities?

But anyway... as big of a pain in the butt it is, ever since I did this one X-Mas drawing, I've been "inking" with vectors... and I think everything I do looks 100 times better that way. I've come to the conclusion that I'm a crappy inker. My hands are too dang shakey, and I'm too dang impatient. I always like the way my pencils look better than my inks, and when I ink things I usually feel that I've ruined them. Vectors take longer, but they eliminate all those problems... so I'm sticking with them. And I think my work is improving because of it.

This drawing was a little more involved than most of mine. I hope that shows. Spent close to a day just looking for the right pose. Not that it's a phenomenal pose, but I must of gone through tons and tons of websites full of naked people before I found it. (PS. Porno websites are an endless source of reference poses when you want to draw pinup girls... Softcore porno websites that is... There's too much awkward bending with the other kind...)

Then spent a day drawing a rough sketch in my book. Then 2 drawing a bigger version of said sketch on a piece of large board. Then a day inking it in CorelDraw. Then most of today coloring it.

And I think it's the bee's knees. I'd like to do similar ones of Tweak and Trickle to match... as like... definative character portraits of the three of them. But not immediately. For now I need rest.

PS. I have no idea why she has a handprint on her butt or where it came from. I just knew with so much butt front and center, there needed to be something there. 1st there was a heart, but that was too generic. Then I tried one of those greek masks of the smiley face and the frowny face, but just the frowny face, because it symbolizes Tragedy (get it), but I couldn't get it to look good (though I still like the idea). Then a lipstick mark, but I realized I used that in my last drawing of her. Finally, I settled on a handprint... so evidently someone was squeezing her butt. Someone who apparently just ate a grape jelly sandwich... I leave that to one's own imagination.

But um... there it is. *Thumbs Up*