[edit:] I've been allowed to use this as one of the 6 portfolio pieces we have to do in my art major, hence the name change. :3[/edit]

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I am so very very proud of this. I love it soooooo much!!!

I also have a zip file for download, listed below after "Additional Info" if anyone is interested. It has progression shots and half the original working size, as well as wallpapers for monitor sizes 1280x1024, 1024x768, and 800x600. I lied tho, I only have half the original size of the image saved in there instead of the full original size it was when I'd worked on it... realized I'd be risking too much giving out the original size. People might steal it or worse, try to sell it for profit as prints or something.

Well not much else to say, only that now that this is done, I will work on my website. I have Dreamweaver for about a month (it's only a demo version) so I had better get on it. :3

I will try to have this up for prints and such once I buy a print account here, for now I'm afraid it will only be this. I would put it up on cafepress.com but I'm not sure if I should trust their quality... not sure how good their quality is anyhow and I don't wanna rip anybody off.

EDIT: Well I messed with the border style some, changed the color to a darker shade of gray as opposed to the previous white, and I made it wrap around the parts of Masurao that protrude from the frame. I hope it looks slightly better at least.

About the lighting and background, I'm sorry if it looks really dark to anyone. XD My monitor's brightness must be set to a brighter setting than most peoples' because some were saying it was too dark.. Can't help it though, since I like working with dark colors and such. lol. And I know the lighting doesn't make sense too much, at least as far as the lighting behind him since it looks like a brighter light source should be behind him judging from the way he's shaded. I was originally going to have a moon and forest in the background, but I ended up changing my mind through the halfway point after looking through some photos to find scenery references. It turned into a dark canyon sorta place. XD oh wells.

Gomen nasai, I might fix the lighting and BG problem in the future, but for now this is it. :3


Time: 33 hours, 42 mins.
Music: Spyro the Dragon OST, Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory & Meteoria, Utada Hikaru: Deep River & COLORS, and the Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, Last Revelation, Chronicles, 3, 2, and 1 OSTs.
Completed: January 24th 2005
Medium: No. 2 .7 lead mechanical pencil on cardstock, Photoshop 7.0 for lineart and CG work.
Additional Info: Download .ZIP file (3.24MB)

Masurao and artwork copyright © 2005 Marie Whatley (*Horus-Goddess) and if anyone says otherwise I'll kick them