Never noticed the hole in her bumbershoot before. And I think the radio looks very 2001 in its styling. Open the pod bay door?

When I coloured this, I kept in mind that people had been overlooking the hole, so enlarged it a little. Mostly this was a matter of lengthening the ripped material.

Heh, micrometorite damage. Poor Saara.

Jeez, 1993? If I waited that long to color something I drew, not only would the original sketch look horrible, but the paper would probably be yellow. That was right about the time I started drawing as a serious venture.

Nice little 'easter egg' with the book title.
Does Saara produce her own atmosphere? I'm sure you can guess why I'm asking. :)

Indeed it does- Namely, how the hell is she LISTENING to the boombox on a world whose native atmosphere (yes, the Moon does have one!) is so tenuous, that it makes Mars' thin atmosphere seem like Titan's or Venus', compared to the Earth...

d.m.f.
(Not stepping on a landmine about someone producing their own gas, nuh-uh! :) )

I thought about this. But though the boombox doesn't produce sound on the moon (none measurable anyway), it does produce vibrations she could pick up by wearing the headphones.

The natural approach here would be electromagnetic induction... And I just thought of pressure buds before seeing your reply- That is, earbuds that seal up air inside, thus allowing her to hear while the rest of her is in a near vacuum....

d.m.f.

While Saara could certainly detect the radio waves (assuming any reach the moon that an ordinary radio could pick up), there's always the problem of interpeting them. I don't know if she would be able to perceive the EM as music, rather than statis.

Aha. That works. :)

Actually no... I have no idea why you're asking. Surely not a fart joke, as dmfalk seems to suggest?

But the answer is that she doesn't need air anyway. No breathing, no need for air.

You're a loooooooooonnnngg way from shore then. x3

Saara might enjoy that boombox better if there were radio stations on the moon.

Or, yanno... if there was enough appreciable atmosphere to carry sound waves worth a damn...

She's probably listening to the anomaly in Tycho

I already explained that she could probably listen to the vibrations from the headphones if she put them to her ear. As for what's playing, notice the tape slot for the boombox.

Ah the sea of tranquility.

Excellent coloring, Taral.

i see her drink is not spilling..due to low gravity?

or it's frozen solid.

Due to freezing solid. Although the surface temperature can rise to over boiling in the sunlight, I'm presuming her drink has been in the shade.

its where astronaughts go on vacation!

Lessee... astronauts train in the arctic, the launch from Florida, and they travel to Earth orbit and the moon. Where would they vacation to get away from it all? How about Albany? Or Toledo?

is every piece of cloth this girl owns that silver/shiny teflon stuff? lol

Only those "slaved" to her starship. In more recent art you can see Saara dressed in more colourful clothing, that's just clothing.

Nice detail! I like the designs on the chair and radio =0)

I think it was entirely worth coloring. I think the blue highlights are a big part of Saara's charm. Your character style is simple, sometimes minimalist - an interesting contrast to your often lushly detailed backgrounds - and without color you're really losing a chunk of her design.

I used to try different techniques to do her fur in black and white, but nothing seemed to work. Stippling, cross-hatching, and zipatone never satisfied me. I could do her in greytones, but that was as unpublishable as full colour in them-thar days. So I just started leaving her blank -- that way I could colour her later, if I found time.

Those darn meteorites

This is so well-shaded, I thought it was a model at first from the thumbnail!

this is more a beach then we thought since they discovered water on the moon.just this beach is frozen underground

I've written a couple of articles and have been blogging on this topic. It seems likely that some amount of water has been found, though it may only be the hydroxyl decomposition product they've detected. More significantly, NASA has been extremely vauge about relatively how much water they think they've found. Their statements would make you think you need only stick a shovel in the dirt and turn up ice. Or at least enough ice crystals that you could process it for the water. But the few figures given seem suspicious to me. And the one quote I can repeat, "wetter than some deserts on Earth" isn't reassuring either. Wetter than almost completely dry isn't very wet. Who in their right mind would process Saharan sand for drinking water?

why a meglomaniac criminal genius! BWAHAHAHAHA! um er heh yeah seems not worth the trouble even for Dr.Evil