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[(04/17/2024) Number 17 in the 'over 3000 views club']
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Extensively reworked version of the penciled version of T&S3, which you can see here. (maybe you want to open it in another tab)

Back in 2012 I started this series of pics, which placed Tatiana modeling a skintight latex bodysuit on a pier located on what appeared to be a drained pond. Well, now we know what the bodysuit was for. Well, actually you knew what it was for when you saw the original. This time though, you get to see her wade into this morass with the full-color effect of all that skintight shiny rubber that makes her completely impervious to the sloppy mud that's already reaching her thighs. In fact, she's completely confident that she can keep wading deeper and deeper until she gets stuck...(or looks that way)...and still remain completely clean and dry beneath her protective suit (not counting her nether regions, since conquering this mire is likely turning her on). So, is Tatiana here joining the rubber set as a lifestyle? Naah. But she can be convinced to play along here and there--she does like the way it looks on her :)

Technical:
I spent most of this past weekend working on the colors for this. I had already inked the pencils with vectors for this scene, and had gone to the additional step of doing the character flats and highlights as vectors too. This turned out to be a wasted effort, as I wound up scrapping the arrangement of highlights as I had penciled them. As well as the I'm told the last two pics in this series (T and S 1, T and S 2 )came out, I was convinced that I was missing something, namely a proper reflection of the blue sky surrounding the scene. But I was still lacking a proper mentor in the art of coloring the rubber-garbed.

I still don't have that mentor, but fortunately  dadward posted this pic, which provided something to study (at the expense of having to ignore the panda dong) in order to develop a better method of rendering the rubber suit, namely a base of dark grey, overlaid with (really) dark blue on a Multiply layer, and two shades of sky-blue highlights on a Screen layer, feathering the highlights from general surrounding light to a sharp edge where the surface reflects the most light before it dips below the viewer's line of sight. One additional step I didn't do before was to add reflections of the ground color on the underside of the character, giving it a more three-dimensional feel. Make no mistake though, I had to think about how those highlights were to be laid out, as it wasn't completely obvious where I should put them--especially across Tatiana's hips. Now that this is done, it has also served as practice for an eventual inking and coloring of a pic of  rubbervixen that I penciled during my Artist Alley stint at Anthrocon this year.

Pencil on bristol, inked and partially flatted in Inkscape, backdrops, foreground and character colored in Micrografx Picture Publisher. 12 layers excluding attributions, 113 MB at full size.