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Full-view as always, thank you~

Omg LAME title. XD Couldn't think of anything better.
Anyways, here's ~Shokaider's fox character again, Hideaki Hibiki. :3 For anyone who's seen this: [link] you'll see that Hide has changed quite a bit. His left eye is now violet, and his hair is spikier. He also lost his pink gi and wears a black trench coat-like leather jacket along with black leather pants and shiny black boots, now.
Hide's real name (birthname) is really Takehiko Reginar du Mardar, but he goes by Hide (pronounced "HEE-DAY"). X3 Why? Because he was raised by another man who adopted him when Hide was abandoned as a kit by his mother (she had good reasons, she was protecting him. Dun hold it against her. XD; ).

ANYWAYS, this isn't story-telling time... XD I went off-tangent a bit. On to the picture itself~
I drew this for ~Shokaider after working on the original piece for some time... y'see, this was handdrawn, at first, and the drawing had a completely different background. XD It had a cityscape background. I might upload it if I ever finish it. And I felt bad for not having finished it yet (he's been waiting for weeks), so... I made this! <3 And I made it a surprise~ he had no idea I was working on it until I gave it to 'im. >X3

I scanned the drawing and cropped it so only Hide would be included in the pic, then I outlined it, colored it, shaded it and added a background to it... all in openCanvas. :3

I tried doing the twilight effect (that line of orange/red in the distance behind Hide), since the sky is supposed to be twilight lit (as it says in the title.) And... I'unno. XD I guess it's okay for my very first try. :3 There's a reason to why the sky is lit like that, too. It's not any NORMAL twilight sky... >>; And I apologize for the overall background being so dark. @_@; It is nighttime there, after all... kinda couldn't make it brighter. XD; So I apologize if it's hard to see the outlines of Hide's jacket, his eartips, his hair and one of his black bangs. Sorry. @-@ Try turning up the brightness/contrast on your monitor if it's really hard to see ^^;
I LOVE the Blur and Smudge tools in oC, so much... @@ This pic wouldn't have been possible without them. XD Oooh, and this was also my first time ever shading leather (Hide's leather jacket), as well. The shines turned out okay, I suppose. X3 'Least for my first try. <3;
I am totally in love with Hide's face, expression and eye, though. I gave him narrow pupils, so he looks more foxish. <3~ And the shines in his hair turned out so PERFECT~ :heart: I also rather like that moon. XD All glowy~ X3


Sorry for the uber-long description, guys. XD *Gives cookies to everyone who's read this far* X3; <3 Really appreciate it.


Anyways, I hope ya'll enjoy this~! <3 I certainly enjoyed making it. X3 I'm actually rather proud of it~ :heart: I would like to hear everyone's comments on this, but no critique, please. This is the final product and I'm not making any changes. X3; ALL other comments are welcome, though~ <3


Medium: openCanvas. All of it, except for the original sketch. Original sketch was traditionally drawn, the cropped version can be seen here.
Time: About 12 hours, collectively. Worked on it on-and-off for 4 days.
Claimer: Hideaki Hibiki/Takehiko Reginar du Mardar is © ~Shokaider. Artwork is © Me [~lugiana-lightwing]

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:icondarthvenom1:
I really love the way this is done! ^^ The shine effects really add an extra level of depth to it, and his expression is both well-done and very human (For lack of a better term...) at the same time. Good work ^^
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Well, Hide is a bit of a hybrid... X3 Since his father is a human, and all. XD
But thank you, Coreh~ <3 Means a lot to me ^^ *Hugglies* :heart:

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Eeee, this is very well done! ^_^ *Huggles* It's awesome! Looks like you tried a few new things, and they came out good ^^

Only thing Id critique on is the twilight - if you make the transition cover the entire sky instead of the bottom, it looks better. Also maybe is you set a -slight- transparency on the moon, maybe 10% or so - but it's just something you gotta play with.

The actual character is awesome. Good job! ^^

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I said I didn't want any crits, you ass. XD But mweh <;P I'll think about the transparency thing, 'til next time.

And as for the twilight, I told you it was my first time... AND, it's no normal twilight. I was trying to make it look like the fiery colors were slowly fading over the horizon, being replaced by the darkness of the night...

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Dang emoticons. <_< Ignore that face up there. XP

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wow, nice drawing of his character! :D

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Thank you! X3

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