Warm like a Firefly...

Thanks Irene. This is actually a photograph of my artwork as opposed to a scan. Somehow it didn’t turn out well when scanned because the fur strokes got rough, and some wasn’t visible at all. Glad it came out somewhat in the photo.

Thanks Paul!

Glad you do. It’s not as easy as pencil, but atleast it doesn’t smudge, and I did want to bring out the firefly warmth. Thanks Lori.

Thanks Mar > ^ __ ^ <

Thanks Karin; glad you took the time to read into this; that’s exactly what I was goind for :D I was ok during the typhoon, though in the news other areas got great damage.

Glad you like it Dave, thanks for the fav :D

Thank you Shree. In the past I got too hung up on drawing exactly as things were then realized the beauty of art is the ability to re-create differently and infuse new life. I’m glad you like this.

Thank you Andromedae. It’s funny you mention Italy and drawing in this particular work. In Italy I’ll be doing sketches during field trips and I was thinking of using the red lead that I used in this drawing during those field trips. I used one of those architectural lead holding drafting pencils, and you know how architects use blue lead to draw construction lines? I found some dark blue lead in Japan and they were selling these red ones too; and I ended up using them for sketching than drafting :P They’re conveniant because they don’t smudge, and rather than carrying around a whole bunch of pencils of different grade, I could achieve a fairly good range of gradients with this alone; although it doesn’t blend as smoothly as graphite; but that’s what it gets for being less smudgy. I used blue lead to do some sketches during a field trip once; you can see those on the second page of my art here (or you can go to the quick link on my profile page). Not necessarily my best work, but these were quick sketches.

Thank you Rosa. (Hotaru is a she.)