Phantasy Star: Fringes of Algo

As the title implies, this is a redo of my first ever drawing, nevermind PS fanart, of Rika.

Sadly I also decided to try out some new paper and wasn't so cheery with the end result, getting a waxy finish with my colours and pencil lines that smudged a lot during the process of drawing, both showing up in the scan something awful, leaving me to take a photo instead and up the contrast etc until it looked as close to the original as possible. I just couldn't seem to get a solid colour with anything and was shocked when I compared it to my last pieces and saw the difference. If you want my opinion, stay away from bristol board. ><

Anyway, while the paper choice left me less than pleased with the result, particularly the scanned version (trust me, the drawing itself looks a lot better) the result, especially in comparison to the drawing below is fantastic. And I'll be sticking to my cartridge paper as of now, but I'll be doing another drawing soon to make up for this one.

Comments and feedback welcome as always. Just not the olde one down here. DeviantArt users can critique this one on http://xander312.deviantart.com/my page.[/url]

Wow. I can definitely see a huge difference from your first one. Great job Xander, you've come a long way in such a short time.

That's pretty gorgeous. I was looking at some of your earlier stuff the other day and yes, you have progressed a lot.

Most definitely a big improvement

Yep, I can see the difference also. Great job! I like the background too.

Wow, this really shows us how much you've improved. It's a shame about the paper not turning out so well. I can just imagine how more much your improvements might have shined through without the trouble from that. Of course, they show pretty well even with that.