oh oh oh oh the COLORS

AND HIS FACE

God, you draw such cute humans @.@

Damn, i have a crush on both Dice and Nine =_____=

Yessss love them as we do! >8D

*steal them for her private sexy manly collection*

buuuuuu <33333

omgomg. Your paintings look like they would taste really good if they were food.

I laughed literally out loud at this comment XD

I'm good like that

HAA

I did too <3

That's an awesome comment, i wish I could like it xD

He's a phoenix? I thought he was a dragon.

Nine is a dragon, Dice is a phoenix :P

Ah I thought they were both dragons ^^

Dice mentions begin a phoenix in the comic :)

so awesome! I love the lack of hard lines and how the colors define the image!

Try as I might, your painting technique eludes me.

This is gorgeous btw <3

Just takes loooots of practice. My first 100 attempts at painterly work were rubbish.

Well it doesn't help that I don't understand color palettes, pressure, etc. I just draw for the hell of it, not because I want to get better or make a living out of it. Unfortunately, art school taught me I wasn't made for that life. :c

Nothing wrong with being a hobbyist :) Animation school taught me I'm no animator, but I don't regret going. I learned a lot and I can still make a living so it's all good :P

ooo so colorful!
And what different technique did you use this time?

I started with four layers on which I slapped the rough colours. One of the background sky, one for the pinkish purple smoke, one for the teal smoke, and then one for Dice. I only did this so I could adjust the colours of the smoke and sky layers completely separately until I had a colour combination I liked. Then I merged all of them together and painted everything as I normally do, on the same layer.

oooo awesome!
I have trouble starting in colors. My values mess up unless I monotone it.
Halp!

Try starting with all dark values and layer the lights on top of it while you shade. It's more natural for a lot of artists to build light on top of dark rather than adding shadow to light. It has something to do with the fact our eyes are drawn to light over shadow. It helped me a lot when someone suggested I try that.

oh hrm, I'll try that out this time, thank you!

BUT I DON'T WANT TO TURN INTO DICE I DON'T EVEN LIKE BOARD GAMES D:

Oh Em Gee that is smexy as heck. O///O

oooh reminds me a lot of centras ainting style with the swiirlies and such
very pretty

I love her work, can only hope to be half as good one day :P Smoky bits were also inspired by an illustration by jisuk over on DA.

This reminds me a bit of Howl's Moving Castle, actually. Very neat image!

I love that moviiiee. And Howl's mid-transformation form was indeed part of the inspiration, particularly with the feathers on the face .

Its a Dice! Awesome!

Beautiful! I love the flow it has.

I was wondering whether the phoenixes or the vampires actually had alternate forms as well... I'm super happy to see they do. And I really like the style you've used for this, particularly how everything just flows from one thing into another seamlessly. Funky funky.

Very stunning use of colors on this one. I like the tones, green and purple, it really makes it pop.

Is this a spoiler :O

Nah, he's already mentioned in comic multiple times that he's a phoenix :)

I better re-read it then ^^;

This is so darn stunning, I love your paintings <3

Waw! It's very nice!
Goog job young artist. ^^

I really love this piece. The painterly style is gorgeous, you chose a very harmonious combination of colors for the background, and I really like the idea of a black phoenix.

Your skin tones are getting really good.

Black Swan! :D

ZARPADO COLOREADO!!!!! =D

Really great work =3

Wow!! Definitely more stylized than your usual stuff. You look like you had fun with it :D Looks awesome, and it goes really well with the theme of the picture. <3 Dice... especially with those face feather-markings <3 <3

What about glop? Actually, some transformations are best left a mystery. >w<;;