Fan/gift art for atomicdog. I had this image in my head for a long time, but it ended up a little differently than I had imagined. When I sat down to do it and got the pencils done, I just went right on to painting without inking (which I have otherwise been religiously doing lately, being afraid of losing my lines under the paint), and then I didn't outline the figure with additional paint. It felt right with a more watercolory feel. I didn't add a background, which I had originally imagined-- she was going to be in a bunker, a good-natured survivalist, with, say, guns and tubs of wheat, and alcohol, comic books, a Teddy bear, ammo, water, condoms, and anything else you need to sit out the coming zombie apocalypse. The figure came out just as I'd been seeing her-- well, almost-- and I penciled in where the background of the basement would go, and then it just... stopped and became this.

I really like this.

The Pyro doll is one I seem to remember her posting about at some point, and when I went searching to find out what a blue pyro should look like, lo and behold, I believe I found a photo of the actual doll, and I had a blast interpreting him with a little worried face.

Acrylic on watercolor paper. Character referenced from atomicdog's gallery.