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Drawn for Mynuet at the D/G Exchange on LiveJournal, where it won Best Artwork Overall and Best Portrayal of Ginny Weasley. The prompt was shy friendship, with water somewhere in the picture.

I spent most of May drawing this. The sketch was done in April, and then it took me about a month to color. Not the entire month straight, mind you--I just kept adding more and tweaking things. I rarely bother with backgrounds. Come to think of it, I never bother with backgrounds. Doing something that involved coloring just about the entire page seemed insane before I started, and now it seems insane that I actually managed it.

Anyway. Done in Prismacolor pencils, with a lot of colorless blender (on Ginny and Draco) and eraser (on the water, which looked absolutely horrible--right, Rachel?--until I used the eraser to blend it). There was a tiny amount of touching up in PSP9 to get rid of things like the unsightly smudge on Draco's cheek. Next time I do something this big, it'll probably be entirely digital, because all that coloring took a toll on my sanity.

Description
Drawn for Mynuet at the D/G Exchange on LiveJournal, where it won Best Artwork Overall and Best Portrayal of Ginny Weasley. The prompt was shy friendship, with water somewhere in the picture.

I spent most of May drawing this. The sketch was done in April, and then it took me about a month to color. Not the entire month straight, mind you--I just kept adding more and tweaking things. I rarely bother with backgrounds. Come to think of it, I never bother with backgrounds. Doing something that involved coloring just about the entire page seemed insane before I started, and now it seems insane that I actually managed it.

Anyway. Done in Prismacolor pencils, with a lot of colorless blender (on Ginny and Draco) and eraser (on the water, which looked absolutely horrible--right, Rachel?--until I used the eraser to blend it). There was a tiny amount of touching up in PSP9 to get rid of things like the unsightly smudge on Draco's cheek. Next time I do something this big, it'll probably be entirely digital, because all that coloring took a toll on my sanity.