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©2005-2009 =alienfirst
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Oi. I don't even want to THINK about how long this has taken me. I've been working on it a little bit almost everyday for about five weeks. And ya know what? I'm happy with it. That almost never happens.

Here we have my little napoleonic alien, Altra. I really loved picking out her colors. I knew she was gonna be blue, and blue is my favorite color, so it was really easy coming up with a color scheme I really liked. I'm even thrilled with her skin tone! The real trouble was with the lineart. My hand was so incredibly shaking trying to make the bells on her wrists spherical (I later cheated on her little robotic pals by using the pen tool and shapes and all that), and then getting a nice smooth curve in her tail.

The background was an image taken from NASA's picture of the day archive (which was in public domain and free for non-commercial use if anyone asks) which I applied a mask to and used some brushes I downloaded off the 'net.

I go die now.

Background from [link] (specific page at [link] ).
Brushes from [link] .
Okay, I think I got the people credited who need to be credited. *whew*

Drawn and colored entirely in Photoshop 7.

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:iconkendre:
Really love the image, she turned out in a wonderful way: I already loved the sketchy one :D
Colours looks perfect, I like tha way you used shadows and highlights here and her expression is gorgeous.

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:iconalienarose:
I think you did an amazing job with this. THe coloring is so clean and neat and I absolutely love the way the orbs came out. And the hair and tail - awesome work!

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:icongloomknight:
Nice sfx! She looks really cute too :D

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:iconleesers:
Her pose and everything is just fantastic x.x This really is amazing. I'm always impressed and astounded when people cell shade SO well. I have problems with it, and this just came out beautifully. I'm really fixed on the shading in her tail though. You did an amazing job with this. :heart:
:iconninjaliz-chan:
Wow~! I really like the colour sceam on this character~! It looks so good! ^_^ *favs*

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:iconninjaliz-chan:
Wow~! I really like the colour sceam on this character~! It looks so good! ^_^ *favs*

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:iconzaiqukaj:
this turned out great:D

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