Fantastic as always jocarra. I must commission you once more!

Thank you so much! Obviously, you're totally not obligated, but I would definitely appreciate it, given my current situation!

WOW ... I really seem to be angry ... *going to hide from myself*

lol! I know, I felt almost a little bad about it, given you seem to be a nice friendly guy :)

Thanks a lot :)

Looks awesome.

Thank you!

Well done, Jocarra, I believe most, if not all of us agree that your rough sketches could hold their own as an actual commission. One does not typically see that much investment into the design or processing, or even emotion of a sketch.

I'm very honoured you think so <3 The thing with sketches, in my opinion, is that they have a ton of potential for emotion that (for my art style at least) actually isn't always easily carried over into a finished, polished image. The roughness and lack of refinement can lend itself to the emotion quite well.

This is sort of a... weird analogy, but... You're a gamer, yes? Have you ever played a really old RPG, like Chronotrigger or Final Fantasy 6? All you're given graphically is a little character portrait and a sprite, and yet somehow, being given so little leaves so much room for interpretation that it can engage the player just as much, if not more so, than a modern game with a painstakingly rendered model. Similarly, the non-absoluteness of a sketch means there's wiggle-room in interpretation that can make a sketch somehow more lifelike and vivid and engaging that a polished piece.

I dunno, or maybe I'm just crazy :V

All art has varying potential, it just seems to come down as to how much the artist exploits, or drafts it into reality, as anything creative by nature can be embellished, expanded and refined. I love jagged edges, non-symmetry, varied thickness and overall grittiness as much as I can enjoy and respect the refined, symmetrical, singularity and cleanliness of much more completed art, so a sketch based image has a credible amount of potential, even by itself.

Absolutely true, it is not so much the graphics or design that make something what it is, there is a lot more investment, emotion, depth and ideal that contribute into creating them, usually however one so desires the more ambiguous it becomes.

You're not too crazy. Haha.

A <i>little</i> crazy I'm happy with :b

We can all live with a little crazy. Haha.

We certainly wouldn't be getting the same art from you if there wasn't any! :P

Oh dang. I'm so used to using html code :b Oops.

As am I, so I just made use of their Italics button. I really wish the Internet would just settle on one format universally. A lofty ideal, but I can dream.

his face: Are you F*CKING kidding me?

Haha, I'm pretty sure it would have to be all in caps.

I mean that that was like his face expression hehe. i loved it great work

Haha, oh, I know. I still think a caption of his facial expression should have been all in capitals X3 Thanks a lot!

OMG!!!! so loving this pic, the dramatic difference of the color of the eyes compared to the rest of the pic is amazing. Simply breathtaking, wonderful job

Thank you so much! The coloured eyes was really a spur-of-the-moment idea :b Glad you think it worked out ;)

Great, now I'm gonna have nightmares of this vivid face.

Haha, he's a nice guy, I swear!

Well I'm still gonna have nightmares. Nice guy or not!

Though, I have to say you did a great job of making this face look alive. Wow.

Heh, thank you so much <3