Oni, Sage and Tenshi in Blissful Slumber-Main Page

Oni, Sage and Tenshi in Blissful Slumber

Talon & bakayaro onna had been corresponding off list for a while when one day Talon sent bakayaro onna
a story to read, "Cold Snap", a story not yet posted on any list or site. "Cold Snap" is based on Dasia's still unpublished a/u story which includes Talon's Sage chara. bakayaro onna was inspired to draw
after reading the following paragraph from Talon's excellent story:

A few hours later, anyone passing by Vegeta's room could peek in on a very kawaii scene… Sage snuggled deep between his two favorite people, their arms and tails crossed protectively over him, the room fairly vibrating with the trio of sleeping purrs, Vegeta's slight skip creating an oddly soothing rhythm. Not even Pan, who would brave hell, high water and noodles to sleep with "my 'Geta" disturbed them…and the rest of the household hoped desperately this was one more brick laid in the foundation of getting Vegeta to let Goku move in.

-quoted with Talon's permission

The entire story is posted exclusively at Joules' site Wordwrights-The Zone,
along with the coloured version of the image below.
I highly recommend anyone interested in excellent fics and art to apply for a password to gain access to this site.
Warning: parts of the password-protected section of the site contain yaoi, yuri, lemon and hentai.
If you do not desire access to those types of writings/artworks, do not get a password.

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This was the first completed pencil drawing I have ever done of any anime chara. As you can tell, it is not done in the anime style but in my style.

It took about five days, including the tweaking. The biggest challenge was translating two-dimensional anime charas to three dimensions. I also came up with my new signature at this time. If you cannot tell, it is a large letter O with the word 'baka' inside.

I wanted to finally have a finished piece to be proud of, and to send to Talon. Let's just say she liked it okay. *dodges Talon throwing lemon tarts*

Anyway, Talon then informed me the story would be posted at Joules' site and Joules had asked Talon to ask me permission to post the artwork with the story. I must admit I was flattered and a bit embarrassed because Joules's site only has highest standards when it comes to the quality of writing and artwork residing there. So after about a half-second of hemming and hawing I said yes.

I was finally officially 'published' in the DBZ community. I NEVER thought this would ever happen to me.

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This was my first attempt at colouring a drawing in the computer using my Wacom tablet and the airbrush tool in Photoshop. I used the part of the technique shown on Dynotaku's site, where the drawing is moved from a layer to a new channel. This allows the artist to paint under the lines and not screw up the drawing lines and shading.

After the initial colouring I sent the image to both Joules and Talon for their feedback. Joules suggested making Vejiita's hair and skin darker. I was able to darken both bodies and shade Vejiita a bit darker by first sampling the skintones off various canon art and fanart. I also cleaned up the background and all the edges around the charas, especially around the hair. The finishing touch was to add a scan of a screentone to the pajamas and fading it out so it was not too harsh and the fabric folds showed through.

I came up with a computer graphic of the new signature in a variety of sizes.

The second edition of the coloured drawing was then sent to Joules and Talon for their next round of feedback. The consensus by all was the second edition was better than the first coloured edition. Joules decided to replace the black and white version of the drawing with the coloured one and that is the one currently residing on her site with Talon's story.

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