I am proud of the result, to be honest.
But doing art with a mouse is not that terribly hard, which is nice.

Perhaps once I've gotten used to painting with a mouse i can do it for others.

Gosh, this is so awesome!
I love the colors and the textures, and the charrie is SO cute ;w;

I knoow, Ryuu is such a cute character!
Thank you, amazing what the paper acryl brush in SAI can do hehe.

duuude, with the mouse???
That's just insane lol. You have a lot of control!

Love the speckle of color in the eyes, it's a nice touch and contrast :D

I do everything with a mouse, sometimes i dream about owning a tablet but then i remember i enjoy mouse art too much.

THANK YOU, it was an after thought.
(like the stars and whatnot hehe)

man dude, if you need a tablet so bad I have a semi-broken Intuos 4 large lying around that I don't need anymore since I'm on the Intuos Pro now.
The tablet is functional, but the drawing section is basically only a little bigger than postcard size due to a section of the pressure field being damaged. I could send it to you if you wanna though? It's not like it's doing anything here but collecting dust, but idk if it'll be useful to you or not.

It was a good decision! I really like the contrast of the grey clouds and Ryu to the rainbow, the spark in the eyes has that ying-yang effect, you know? Just pulls the whole piece together nicely!
Also man your mouse art skills are killer!

I only did touchpad art once in 2009, this is what came out:
https://i.imgur.com/qh2d7ph.jpg
... I was mimicking the art of Nils Jawa lol. In my defense, I'm left-handed, so using the mouse for art stuff is twice as hard >XD

Honestly you can keep the tablet, I've grown so fond of mouse art that i don't think I'll ever purchase a tablet ever again! ;_;

Aw man, you think so? I really felt like the piece was too dull before i added all the little extra details and i'm genuinely glad i decided to.

OH TOUCHPAD, my nemesis.
I have high respect for anyone who can make touchpad art even work out, and you did LOL.

Haha to be fair, your mouse art is pretty darn sweet!

Yeah it was a good idea, I feel like the piece could have felt somewhat unbalanced with the speckles of color on the other side!

Lol I should maybe try again just for fun >XD it's almost been 10 years since then

actually my first art was by mouse.
I still like old one, I already tell you?? the gray/rainbow images are spacial to me.
how you catch it - the greyish rainbow star is my favorite.
thank you so much :) now you have progress at art really.
keep your work. (btw I was happy you draw my OC's as icon much. people never did it haha)

I remember you telling me you liked it, but... I just felt like i did no justice to your character!
Ryuu is such a wonderful character and i'm happy that i decided to remake the trade!

It's much prettier now! *_*

(And you're welcome, i love to make icons hehe! I'll gladly do more for you!)