Tanya, 6Teen style

Well, almost.

I've been wanting to imitate this sort of Illustrator-ish line-less style since I first spotted 6Teen during one of my forays into Ottawa for the now-defunct C-ACE convention. Upon finding a simple sketch of Tanya that I have no idea what it was intended for, I chose to take a whack at coloring it in as little time as possible. Well that never works--this one took about four hours, which isn't too bad, considering I haven't watched the show this style is based on since it's series finale (I watched it on my laptop while heading to Anthrocon this year).

This pic marks the break of a four-month long dry spell (except for What the Fur and Anthrocon artists' alley stints) in which I was occupied with a commission, as well as being the 400th pic posted in my gallery. Because the scan was less than half a page, this pic wasn't one of the multi-thousand pixel extravaganzas, but it still took up 34MB with about thirty levels of lasso-tool generated shapes. In "honor" of the inspiration for this pic's color styling, I hacked together a backdrop that kinda-sorta looks like the inside of a multi-level mall. In conjunction with this style experiment, I took a shot at defining Tanya's lower lip in a more prominent manner, giving it a full, rounded appearance rather than just suggesting it with a shadow.

Lasso-tool trace of a pencil drawing, coloring and backdrop done in Micrografx Picture Publisher. 34MB at full-size uncompressed. 31 layers of objects, not including attribution logo/text.