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DAMN but I am TOTALLY ROCKING this cover, if I do say so myself!

Their skin tones still need a bit of work - haven't adjusted Rinchen to be browner yet, and Manoj isn't popping as much as Rinchen is because the color I used to define the edge between the light and the shadow isn't as saturated as it ought to be. I'll be putting highlights on them near the end, too. But all that is to be done in Photoshop, and I don't want to start messing about in Photoshop until I've gotten the Painter stuff out of the way, so that'll probably be done after I get the mountain background painted.

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Oh, wow. That looks great.

Nice tie-in to PBR, too: Both have lots of blue on the covers (will this have any floating snow?), and both have two men with contrating skin tones and at least one weapon.

It probably won't have floating snow, because I am not confident in my ability to learn how to draw floating snow in the time I have left to get this done. :)

I'm not quite sure where I'm putting the Spindrift title bar - I think if it's at the exact height that PBR's is, it'll go right on top of Rinchen's knife. But I'm OK with that, because I don't necessarily want to get married to one particular height for the title bar on all the books I do.

(And note that it's again the one people would traditionally assume is the uke who has the visible weapon!)

Well, browner or not, they're still manlicious. Seriously, I love their expressions.

Thanks! XD

It looks like it's coming along very nicely--I love the contrast of expressions. Such a calm, and placid face versus utter attitude, with alovely little snarl in there. XD It's wonderful!

THank you! I'm going to be adjusting the highlights in their eyes so they actually look like they're looking at each other. XD

Wow. I really love the detail on the xxx design of the clothes. Everything pops out really nicely!
When you are not busy I would love to know how you did the metal on the knife. It looks so shiny.

I did it in Painter. I used the oil pastel to lay down a generic pale blue for a base and locked transparency so I could color and blend with abandon without going outside the lines, then put in some streaks of white and a dark grey, then used the Just Add Water blender in Painter to blend them, keeping my strokes going in that same diagonal direction. Then I used the eyedropper to pick up colors from nearby areas, since metal reflects things like that, and put them on, then blended the same way. The blender started picking up black from the outlines, even though I was working on a separate layer, which fortuitously looked good (they're the dark streaks on the upper half of the blade). To finish it, I put a veeery thin white line that you can't see in the jpg along the upper edge of the blade and along the top edge of the line down the middle of the blade.

Hmms. I'll have to see if I can do something similar in Photoshop.

Wow! Looks beautiful!

...Niiiiice. I like how Rinchen is all "La dee da~" as he has Manoj in basically a headlock. >XD

Mmm, mmm, mmmh!

(In the best possible way, of course ...!)

I really like the metal on the knife too!

LOL! Their personalities are really showing in this one. I don't know if that was your intent, but it's funny.

:D Yup, that was pretty much the idea. XD Thanks!

mmmmm....Yummy! :)

Thank you! :D

Awesome!

(and maybe I am just jaded to naked male torsos, but my eye is really drawn to that gorgeous detail work on the clothes *grin* Lovely folds and wrappings!)

Thank you!

I stole Manoj's pants design from some Indian dancers I found a picture of; the proper traditional garb for kalaripayattu practice looks awfully diaperlike.

That has to go in your essay on how you designed everyone's outfits, etc, because it is true and it cracked me up. It would be cool if you had a bit on how you designed their faces and bodies, too, because they're not very BL-standard; not one-race-fits-all, plus rather more muscle than is common from what I've seen.

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