Another Mud Scout gets her "introductory" clean portrait after a long (unplanned) hiatus going back to January 2011. This time it is "Julie Ryuusa", a character belonging to  sollycanthrope who requested her inclusion back in October 2009 (I'll admit to being slow, but I don't tend to forget) when I was soliciting additional characters for use in a series of "recruitment posters".

Technical:
Getting this one done took a lot more research and discussion than is typical for these pics. Julie here is a wereangel, a combination of a Final Fantasy race known as Viera, and the character Dr. Ciel from the Megaman Zero universe. Since there are no existing images of Julie that I know of, I had to perform some of the same mental gymnastics as some artists who sometimes find themselves doing commissions entirely from text descriptions.

Also, since Julie would have a humanoid face, I had to once again face my longtime bugaboo with drawing a human-faced character (since previous attempts tend not to look quite right). I didn't try to mimic Ciel's eyes exactly as the anime-styled depictions that make up most of her artwork, but tried to come up with something between that and the eyes I normally draw. Future images may contain further modifications, but I'm letting the large eyes stay on account of Ciel's influence on the design. (Julie's sister Prismi, a Final Fantasy race known as a Gria, has no such workarounds however)

Pencil on bristol digitally inked using Inkscape and colored in Micrografx Picture Publisher 10. Originally 7 layers not including logo and attributions, archived at 193 MB full original size.