SD Lovebirds by @smarle (Staci/Nadia)

Whew! It took a while, but I finished DP's commission (the sketch is further down in my gallery)! He finally got a chance to scan it in, so here it is!

There really weren't many changes lineart-wise between the completed picture and the unfinished sketch. I did fix DP's left arm, which was bothering me horribly. I wish I fixed his hair, too, though... It doesn't really resemble his hairstyle... ^^;;;;; The inking process went pretty well--there weren't any hideous mistakes requiring Photoshopping to repair like in many of my pictures... ^^;;;;

Most of the coloring was done with Prismacolor markers, though I did use some Prismacolor and Kodak colored pencils as well. The t-shirts that the pair are wearing were colored to match the text colors they use in chat. However, due to a mistake I had to fix, Sraph's shirt wound up gold instead of her yellow. There were actually a few mistakes made while coloring this, but I attempted to fix them as best I could. So some colors may have a slightly different tint or be somewhat darker than I originally intended. I even wound up tinting Sraph's upper lip as well as her lower one... But I still think it looks pretty nice!

Originally, I had wanted to do a grassy sort of background for the picture, but I was worried that it might not turn out well and ruin the picture, I left it backgroundless. However, when I finished coloring, it looked so plain with just a white background. I tried to think of something simple to draw for the background and decided on a big heart, since they're such a cute and loving couple! The heart is kinda uneven, but it doesn't look too bad...

It's not a perfect picture, but I did the best I could with it. And DP was happy with it, so all is well! :D

This image is smaller than the version that DP owns.