The Good Life

Hello! I am alive! If you don't know who I am since the time you added me to friends, well.. I'll have you know that I haven't been posting frequently.

Yes, this is from a photo. A beautiful stock photo here: [link] from

I like working from photos, I'm sorry! I just can't get people to pose for me for four+ hours!! I haven't worked too much on the background, but this is going into my portfolio as is.

I would like to further tighten the background, but, eh, I was told to loosen up, so I'm doing that (an excuse for laziness, yes). I'm happy with this, even if I didn't have to think about the composition or anything because it was already provided to me by such an excellent photographer. )

Inspiration for title? Not really sure. I noticed the things in the background and thought they were cool.

I don't have many in progress shots, mainly because I don't really work well on layers. At most I typically have three layers - one for lines, one for flood fill (if I choose), one for overall color. Also, I always forget to save in progress crap. T_T But if you're interested:
[link]

sorry for the poor handwriting.

Painter 9
This is the original size omfg!
time?? between three and seven hours (I lose track)

UNRELATED BUT EQUALLY IMPORTANT: Is there any way to disable automatic smilies? D: