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Time for craparts. What I Did On My Summer Vacation, part 1.

First, pastels!

The lineart was in my sketchpad from when I made the cosplay stencil, so I sat on the rocks on the beach and watched waves to color it.

I'm most proud of this. Sketched out very quickly in about twenty minutes in an airport, and a week later I sat down and colored it all in one day. The paper's too big for the scanner so you don't get to see the rest of the bookshelf. Suffice to say I learned that I don't like white space.

"I see it! I see it!"

This is just full of suck, and I don't think I'll finish it. The main tentacle is weirdly colored and when I tried to do suckers it just destroyed the depth- especially in the upper-left corner where the scan is cut off. Not to mention Tina's SKIN, augh. It was muddied with the ink in her eyes and the resketching and scraps of blue from the background, and even with the resketching her neck looks too long and broken. Boo!

Rydia and her pet dragon are on display at Icy's.

Next, colored pencils.

Whee, quicksketch! Proud of that water.

Not happy with this, especially the skin, but eh. Colored pencils. I'm still new to 'em. What it really needs is a background- the more I look at it the more it feels naked without one.

NC's request: A Laguna/Raine sketch, preferably set after Raine dies.

I scribbled this about six times from the opposite angle before flipping it and putting Raine in the background. Laguna doesn't look like much, but I am glad I filled the space and Raine is I think somewhat ghostly.

And finally, Cully's request: an FF4/FF6 crossover, about twins, having to do with the moon. That's a tall enough order that I felt justified extending it to two sketches and an accompanying drabble. Thus.

"...Well?" Porom ventured, twisting her hands. "See anything?"

Her twin was still fiddling with the knobs, but he did toss a response back down. "I see a castle."

"A castle! Palom, that means it's inhabited! There's life on that planet!!"

"Mm." Porom climbed closer.

"Anything else?" she pressed.

The words came slowly. "On the castle... there's a tower... and on the towerrrr...." He gave the knobs one more twitch. Porom resisted the urge to prod him.

Palom started to laugh.