Kyth And Contentment

Wow, I love how I really can't come up with titles recently.

Anyway, ~Rhawen has been pestering me to draw Kyth. With reason, I suppose- Kyth is one of my most-beloved characters and I think I only have...two or three pictures of her in my gallery and two or three in scraps. And none of those are even moderately recent. So here's a Kyth. Sitting on a wall, with a book and her sexy reading glasses (which I guess are green now). She's probably, like, outside the library having checked out a new memoir or fine example of chick-lit, waiting for Kriamiss to get out of there with a heap of scrolls. And so she's drawing "I You" with water on the wall 'cause she's thinkin' about him. Yeh. And it's fall and it's pretty.

I enjoy the fact that when I draw towns they're always some weird cross between American rural and the cool plaster-covered buildings o' Europe.

Also, note to self: When drawing from background to foreground, remember that by the time you actually get to shading the foreground you're going to be like, "Is this OVER yet?" So while shading each individual roof-tile is great, neglecting Kyth herself tends to be the result. Oops. Still, check those roof-tiles! Not to mention, non-dramatic lighting is a lot harder and a lot less fun to shade than dramatic lighting.

So the weird stuff framing the picture itself is the binding and part of the cover of my sketchbook, which got scanned. I kinda liked the way it looked and the way it lets the leaves kinda fall out of the picture.

So yes. I'd put this at somewhere between 4 and 6 hours. Meh. It always takes me so many tries to sketch a decent Kyth.

Blahblahblah:
Kyth, art = mine
Kriamiss (mentioned) = ~Rhawen's