Happy Birthday Rainy Baby

This picture won me 1st place! in SpazzyMonkey's [link] pencil art contest!!!


*full size please!*

So, this started as a drawing of Sarahpheine' from "Pheinixfall" my first novel...many chapters of which are here on Dev!

but, then it ended up killing numerous birds with one stone....being a birthday gift...
*winks*

and now doubling with the quickie Background from photochop as a thanks for to all for 1500 + pageviews!

so thanks all!

Original pencil drawing without bg is here somewhere in my gallery.

photo-reference from
[ [link] ] for structures and camera angle and such...
Thanks!

and I'm going to enter it in a competition/tutorial thingy soon enough...
I'll keep ya all posted.