Collaboration with Mashi Flats

Okay, didn't realize it, but I just crested the 38,000 pageview mark, so WHOOHOO! Go Me! So, I figured to post something to help celebrate the occasion.

So, here's the back story... had said she'd be open for a collaboration in the past, so I asked her if she'd be willing to draw a sketch of my all-time favorite Playboy Playmate, that I could color it afterwards. Well, there was a little trouble getting her the right reference picture (one of my absolute favorite pose of Angel), so she went with a different pose and posted the results just recently.

I'd been on a good jag where coloring and doing general PS stuff was concerned, but seeing Mashi's sketch made me think of a recent tutorial I saw that was posted by : that deals with using the pen tool in PS to do digital inking.

Well, I've been dying to improve my work by doing my own inks... so, this piece here is the first full-fledged attempt at using the method. I don't mind crits/comments, but just remember the overal "style" of the drawing is Mashi's work. All I did was ink the lines (and do the colors).

Next to follow -- details and shading!


Original Art by Mashi
Inks & Color by Me; done in Photoshop 7.
Time : 8 hours.