L.A.'s Art: Winter Days

It's taken quite awhile but finally I'm finish.

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Lanavi Winter, my signature character, is taking a stroll on a winter day while it begins to snow. 

This is my first time really doing a full digitally painted environment and I think it came out very nice despite my inexperience. I did a lot of studying to figure out how to draw trees, the textures, and how to make snow look like snow. I do enjoy the cloud work.

All done in Paint Tool Sai

Music of inspiration: Pages by Coda

Artwork of the Past: Noobie Bounty Hunter Robot Kiwi

Created around fall of 2010.

I've been listening to a bunch of WayForward game music especially for their recent Nintendo E-shop game Mighty Switch Force. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQMtSM0zRk&feature=related Awesome soundtrack by the way you can buy it at a price you see fit here -> http://virt.bandcamp.com/album/mighty-switch-force-ost all proceeds go to getting WayForward better equipment to make even better music which is totally worth it. If Robot Kiwi ever became a game, Jake Kaufman can do the music anytime.

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Anyways to my thought, I was listening to this music which really reminds me of good ol' Robot Kiwi, and in "L.A.'s original character all star line up" she is without a doubt number 3 only behind Vignette Moon and Solstice Winter. I wanna draw her, heck I should do that right after my current two projects.
  

Here is a look back at one of two of my favorite pieces from before my big style change. I'm especially proud of this one because it gain the favorite of world renown artist Hector "Elsevilla" Sevilla Lujan http://elsevilla.deviantart.com/ he told me how effective the color and her design was. That was a huge, huge confidence booster. Gotta thank video game characters for their influence.

This is a long post I tend to do that heh but I'm going to draw her next. I'm super curious as to how Kiwi will look in my improved style. She, along with Solstice, have gone through a multitude of design changes as my art style has changed over the years.

Ciao~