For years, I've wanted to recreate this piece:
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Unfin.....-Fox-153840254

This is my little mini Hershey bar sized fox. She currently has no name and I don't know that I will give her a name.

While I am extremely proud of this piece that I have added to my portfolio, I am equally frustrated with it. I pushed the limits of what I could do with this piece by really incorporating what I learned in the past year of working in Lighting into a 2D piece. I hope you guys can see the leap in my art, too. Will be doing a dawn/day time version of it in the future. :)

I think I spent about 7 hours on this piece, but 2-3 extra hours just frickin' problem solving my way out of some stupid white lines that were appearing everywhere. I couldn't believe it. I was literally done the piece, and then zoomed out and there were all these little white lines EVERYWHERE. It's like what we call "matte lines" in 3D Lighting/Compositing where the edges of overlapping layers leave gaps or unwanted lines on your work. It is a dreadful mess to fix.

I think because I was trying out a new method of colouring to try to make the character pop more, something went terribly wrong in the process and I had to repaint over a bunch of things to "fix" the issues. Painting over stuff is my last resort and is usually the simplest solution, but sometimes it made it worse, and I still cannot figure out what the culprit is. Next piece I work on I will definitely have to be much more conscientious about what I'm doing to try to prevent this from happening. Never in the past 13 years of me drawing/colouring have I ever encountered this issue. GRARGH.

Anyways, enjoy.

Credits
Art: © silberry
Character(s): Unnamed Fox (Character) © Silberry
Finished On: February 24, 2015
Tools: Photoshop CS5 with tablet for sketch and colouring. SAI with tablet for lineart.
Layers: 45
Time taken: 7 hours + 3 hours of problem solving

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