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Nicole is Outta This World (B-day gift)

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Just something I felt like whipping up for the wonderful :iconnicolenudes: in, appropriately enough, her birthday suit.

Reference used. nicolenudes.deviantart.com/art…

Original photographer: Images in G


...Sooooo yeah. I traced over the original photo. I just couldn't get certain details right, and I felt this would be good shading practice for me. I did my absolute best to avoid tracing anything in the present I made for her last year nickinamerica.deviantart.com/a… but... with this one, I just couldn't get it right. I kept making the shoulders or hips or parts of her face the wrong size. Sometimes I'd get one thing right, and the next thing would be completely outta whack and the whole thing fell apart. The more times I tried to do it freehand, it just looked more and more awkward. I'd overdo or half do everything, like I was uncomfortable drawing her this pose... and I really don't know why. So, here we are.

But hey, this is just a case of art imitating life. It's not like if someone traces over a character like Kimba the white lion, or Sonic, or whatever, changes a few little details, and claims that it's a completely new character. I just... I'm sorry for getting so hung up about this, but it is a huge thing for me. At the very least, this has helped me get a better grasp of basic two toned shading an' whatnot, something I haven't done much of for years but figure I've gotta move on to, one of these days.

But hey, I also wanted to take the chance to show Nicole how I've improved in some ways since last year, mainly with the lines being cleaner and the colors hopefully being easier on the eyes.

As many of you know by now, Nicole is the model who inspired my take on Samus Aran, in my Metroid Revival comic. I just.... she's so much fun to draw. She's big and ruggid looking, with broad shoulders an' all that, but she's soooo soft and womanly.

So, I felt like drawing her in front of a crazy retro sci-fi backdrop like all sorts of surreal comic art you used to see several decades ago where they weren't afraid to show this much skin. I just hope this turned out all right.

Yeah, it's Nicole, of course, but... eh... who knows? Maybe you could also imagine Samus chilling on some mostly uninhabited water world on the fringe of the galaxy? What's she looking at, as she rises out of the water? Maybe she and Django stopped somewhere on the way to wherever to go skinny dipping, away from everything and everyone else? Maybe he tripped over and she's asking if he's all right?

...Good Lord, I sound like a total fanboy, now. I'm hopeless.

>shrugs< Meh. Think whatever you want. I'll continue to practice drawing this kind of body type, and shading an' all that, until I can really do it free hand.



Thanks for being there, Nicole. Happy birthday.



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NicoleNudes's avatar
This is awesome and I totally love the background as well. 
Harder poses to draw will always give you more practice and in the long run you'll become better, so don't worry about that :)

Thank you for the awesome bday gift! :heart: