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OMG, I hope Llama’s seen this. I’ll have to forward this to him if I run into him in CoH tonight. (He has a Force Field defender styled after a rubber duckie. XD)

After sitting for nearly a year in the Ramen queue, I finally get around to this gem…

After Hikaru crashes literally at Typheros’ doorstep, said ninja steps out to see WTF just happened. Never mind the dragon-sized crater (not seen, but it’ll have to be drawn eventually for lulz), or people scattered everywhere in varying states of sandy burial, he happens upon a pajama-fied pair of legs sticking out of the sand and plucks her out by the ankle….

Chelsea: *flail* PUT ME DOWN! I SWEAR I’LL KICK YOUR ASS IF I COULD REACH IT!
Typheros: >_>;

Oh, and don’t mind Numair in the corner. Awful, AWFUL Super Mario 64 reference waiting to happen. (Try diving headfirst into sand or snow if you haven’t. “Oof!”)

Hi, fan service. To be on the safe side, despite everyone involved being featureless, assume this is NSFW on account of boobies. (Also I cannot draw bath sponges worth anything, even though I had one next to me.)
Hikaru’s seem a bit… I don’t know, I can’t put my finger on it, beyond that they might look the way they do because of being crammed into that Maximillian plate armor for long periods of time, I suppose. *shrug* Gotta let ‘em out to breathe sometime…

That said… as expected, the water ended up being the better part of the paint job here. Water is not easy to paint, you can’t simply just flood blue, squiggle in some white wavy lines and have it look anything near convincing. At the same time, water is not entirely transparent either, as even bath water has some degree of opacity. This is a much simplified rendering– if I wanted to push it further, you’d see some hints of fleshtones from underneath, but here, just a murky shadow contour will do.

There IS steam here, but it’s quite faint. I debated adding more, but it might have been too much. Hm. This is still early into the bath scene, so steam could add up as it goes on.

While I figure out what part of the Sleepover narrative to draw next, I’ll be drawing updated Avatar forms for Blastoise and Dinah, as well as the future Avatar Yggdrasil (“Iggy”), the Media Center box that will be built upon the release of Windows 7. Blastoise is getting a weapon change from 2h sword to a spear, Dinah’s getting twin blades, and because Iggy is a newcomer… well, I’ll just say that I’ll likely base him on FuSoYa with a bit of Phil, so he’ll most likely get a staff of some sort.

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WTF, Fontana. 102F?!
It’s a good thing mother’s all “screw the electric bill, run the AC!” or else we’d be melting. Though I imagine she’s doing this more for LOL BULLDOGS. :P

also… FELLOW NAUGHTY LIBERALS! Rejoice for tomorrow, MSNBC finally gets an HD feed!
If Time Warner is still as omgfast about patching in new channels, I’ll probably have it same day. (No, really… last time new HD channels were released, we pretty much got ‘em same day as they were advertised for release.)

Hi, my modem fried yesterday, so I finally got around to finishing this piece. (Shows how easily I’m distracted by internets…)
I also, gasp, finished the base portion of Golgi’s status card! Except all the background layers in my card file are damaged so I have to make new ones. I’ll post that later >_>;

So, um, yeah. Look and die of the cute. No, I don’t know what part of the story I’ll be doing next.

Should be an easy color job, yes…