Sakuma Ryuuichi
Pianissimo Butterfly
fanart for Angrybee's story

This took over a year, on and off, to complete. I think it was partly because I could not draw Shuichi consistently well back then so I stopped working on it. I can finally draw the tribble pretty reliably now so recently my muse jumped on me out of the blue and I finished this in record time.

Anyway, this is fanart for Angrybee's wonderful multi-chaptered fic, Pianissimo Butterfly. You can read it at gurabite and I highly recommend you do so.

This is my first purely computer graphics image that is not an oekaki. I did this entirely in Photoshop, without using any traditional drawing materials nor scanning any sketch into the program. I drew the characters while in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. The main character, Sakuma Ryuichi, was drawn on the main canvas. Each of the smaller characters, Yuki Eiri, Seguchi Tohma and Shindou Shuichi, were drawn and coloured in separate files then copied to the main picture.

No one has a shirt because I absolutely SUCK at drawing decent looking clothes without some kind of reference.

It is difficult to see, but Shuichi DOES have a pierced eyebrow in this pic, just like in the story. His hair colour variation is also from the story.