Suoh goes clubbing

I love coming up with new dark elf characters, and I tend to become obsessed with drawing them. When Gothic_Wonder asked me to draw her drow character Suoh, I jumped at the chance. After I did a few concept sketches just to get used to drawing him, I drew the request picture, and it is coming along fine... But it's on paper.

Sooo... The other night when I was firing up the computer to get in another one of my ten-minute doodles, I decided to try drawing Suoh via tablet. I had originally decided to do the request on paper because I was unsure of my tabletting skills, and I wanted to see how an attempt at the drow mage would turn out. This is what I ended up with, and I think it looks pretty darn good. Out of character, yes, but still! Drow are hot. :3

Obviously, this ended up being more than a ten-minute doodle, but that's what happens when I get excited. Suoh was originally just standing there, but I wanted to experiment with a blacklight-style filter, and that's when I had the idea to put him in some sort of a club scene. And of course, you can't have someone dancing in the club by themselves because that's just lame. So I had to add some random background drow (forced myself to stop at two, or I'd never have finished). So much fun with purple filters of various sorts... :D And of course, it all just goes to hide the fact that I still cannot do backgrounds and settled for adding random colored dots. So festive, I know.

Anyway, apologies to Gothic_Wonder for adopting (hijacking?) your awesome awesome character. I know this isn't what you requested, but I'm totally working on that. *huggles Suoh*

This picture took me about 7 hours to complete. Done completely in Photoshop.