Lovely!!!

Wow, this is really good.

She can do more to my body than guard it.

Great picture.
Allthough she probably cant run very well in that dress.
And i dont know what's better. The 38. she be holdin, or the 357. she be holdin :P

great pose, great expression. love the colours.

Nice shading and highlights

I really love that dress, but the purple lining of the jacket is very catchy to. Is that a 5 shot .38 she has? I always wanted one :P

Yep it is a S&W 638 in 38spl.

Well, not looking at the viewer is very logical. You have good storytelling instincts.

She is actively protecting her client (the gun is being drawn). She does not consider the viewer a threat, or the viewer is an ally, or the viewer is the implied person she is guarding. The viewer is still within her circle of attention. Any of those situations is a complement to the viewer.

Since she is a bodyguard at work, her attitude is just as engaging as the direct gaze of a pinup.

I find interesting the details on the clothings, more the shading :3:3:3

Thank you. I was paritcularly happy with how the dress came out. Especially the folds in the fabric!

I may like to understand how to do such realistical folds, just as the shapes i mean ^^

If I get a chance I'll post a little essay on the subject in my journal.

Gorgeous skunkette, and the dress is fabulous. Having her looking over your shoulder isn't bad for the pic, if anything with her holding the drawn gone it gives you a feeling along with that confident smile that she's seen a threat to 'you' and going to deal with it promptly.

You're right, that dress did turn out rather remarkable. Definitely action packed.

Well packed with something.

I was trying to avoid that connection, but it was so hard! Thank you for going there. :)

Nice, very nice! You just can't go wrong with a Skunkette that's packin' heat.

.38 is a little light, isn't it?

Actually depending on the situation and type of bodyguard you are may carry even less. Not all bodyguards are the stoic dark suit with sunglasses type. Sometimes the bodyguard needs to blend into an environment to provide protection. If you're escorting a client to a swanky nightclub and the client doesn't want it to look like the Secret Service is crashing the scene then you may not be able to pack your full-size service pistol with the outfit you're wearing. Especially if your female. So you go for the largest thing you can carry on you, and purse holsters are not on you personall there are with you, so you go for something like the S&W 638 Bodyguard, the real reason for the title of the piece, in a small shoulder rig which she is wearing. Not perfect but you can still provide protection for the client in a low-threat environment.

good point, but i belive the .357 would have a significantly more stopping power, but in a hardly noticable size difference

Very true although there will a slight drop in muzzle velocity in short 2.5" barrel. The real big issue would be whether Rosemary would able to effectively use a .357 pocket rocket like that. If your not hitting you're just making noise. In this case sacraficing flat out performance for shootablity and lighter carry weight, remember a titanium frame .357 would just aggravate the recoil issue more, can take precedence. She also could handle +P loads, which I know she can shoot, in it which no slouch even in short barrel revolver like that. Also I'm very leery of porting weapons that might have to be used in tight weapon retention shooting positions which would weigh against a .357 snub for her in serious social situations.

good point, also, i forgot they made the titanum ones! i'm not sure how that idea got off the ground! i was going to save up and buy one until my dad pointed out the recoil factor

Hmm.....I wonder why she carries a "Saturday Night Special" or I´m wrong wit that? No, the RG16 is one, thats more a seld defense weapon. S&W Detective Special anyone?

Nice picture, really like the overall look. If she wtns, she can have my M29 next. XD

Actually it is S&W 638 Bodyguard. Please! I'm not going to give a high class lady a piece of RG pot metal unless she is forced to slum it! At least I'd give her a Taurus, or a Charter Arms, jeez maybe a Rossi.

Very nice! I like skunks. They're so cuddly. *holds breath*

Lovely~

I actually like the fact that she seems to be looking over the viewer's shoulder. However, the thing I like most about this pic is the clothing. The dress looks very nice and the jacket is awesome! I think you did a great job showing the characteristics of a good leather jacket. The only thing that bugs me about this pic is the holster, I'm not sure why, but it irks me. Overall: I like it!

Question, does purse bother you to? nosey artist would like to know?

Design wise: I think the purse looks just fine, its simplicity fits well with everything else. Functionally: Where is the rear strap going?

Ah! The strap on the holster part of a loop that her left arm goes through. bottom part goes under the arm and up across her upper back. The upper part of the loop, which is padded, loops down and crosses the lower strap. This forms an "X" between her shoulder blades roughly. The straps then continue and form another loop for right arm to go throught. This is done to help evenly spread the load across the body and to help the concealing garment hang correctly. It's hard to describe, maybe I should post the B/W sketches I did as reference for the piece?

I think I see what you are trying to say, the sketches would probably help, because to me it looks like the jacket is obstructing the rear strap. Though, wearing a purse on the inside of a jacket would seem strange to me in the first place.

Actually the purse is worn on the outside but the narrow strpa is hidden by the body and jacket collar. It all makes sense logically but I might want to give thought how appears artistically in the future. hey, it's a learning thing.

Either that or I'm reading way too much into little things. :P I certainly didn't do any research on it or attempt it myself, so I'm hardly the expert. I'd rather you like it, and me feel a little weird about, than the other way around. It still looks good whether it bugs me or not.

Still it is something I like to stay aware. One thing I find artist can suffer from is only respecting the comments of other artists and discounting the observations of the so-called "mundanes". "They just don't understand it!" is a comment I hear too often, well guess what it's my business to create art for the so-called "mundanes, which for the record I consider the whole mundane title a load of crap, so when someone makes a comment whether they are an artist or not I try to listen to what they are saying. Sometimes it takes a "non-artist " to say that the Emperor has no clothes. Thanks for the feedback.

Thats a pretty good attitude considering it is the "mundanes" (I almost put muggles for some reason ) who are generally the purchasers of art.

I really do think the picture looks good, I faved it for a reason, even though there are 1 or 2 minor things that bug me about it. It would be unreasonable to expect you to be perfect, so I still consider it a good pic. As you said yourself "it's a learning thing." Since I am too cheap to purchase art, feedback is about the only thing I can give in return for the artist sharing their work. I guess its my way thanking you for sharing.

The emperor has clothes, but only for the summer. :P

ITS A TRAP =P
Great job btw :)

Rosemary certainly seems to know how to take care of herself; that's one bodyguard I'd love to hire :D

If she was my bodyguard, she'd need someone to defend her from me. ;)

Rosemary is looking sexy and very dangerous. Is that a Ruger 686 .44 magnum she's carrying? I have one, and this looks very similar to mine. Hers looks a little too small to be a .44-- might be a .357 magnum though.

Nope. It is a J-Frame 5 shot S&W 638 Bodyguard, hence the title, in .38 Special. Did you think it was a Ruger SP101 maybe since a 686 is a L-Frame S&W product?

Oh, okay. I must've missed that reference. Yeah, I guess I did mistake the one type for the other. Then again, I really wasn't looking too carefully at the firearm. ;7

Yeah, she can be distracting!

*still staring at Rosemary* Huh?

I haven't done a lot of comments on your pieces that I've faved... I just have no idea what to say.

Its artists with your amount of detail and skill on textures and fine features that make the things I draw look like child's play.

Your work is incredible... thank you so much for making it and posting it!