The Frost of Winter

OMG, I'm a freaking retard--I can't believe I didn't post this one here until now! >.<

The last piece of my little "Seasons" project. Fuyu, as her sisters call her. Posted today-the winter solstice December 22.

She was actually the very first one I drew out of all the other Seasons and she was almost completely finished, until I got to her hands.... Ohhh, the dreaded hands... I could never get them right--and I still think they look like crap... but I had to settle with my roommate posing her hands for me. >.< After that, I didn't work on Winter for a year. I finished the other ones and when I realized I needed to finish winter I was really happy to color her. I love her hair--how it's so stark and black against all the blue and cool colors. I'm not too happy with the BG--as usual. -_-0 but I gotta suffer now. >.<

I think this was the biggest project I've ever taken on... just becasue it took nearly 2 years to complete with time constraints, having to post each picture on the solstice on each season and I didn't start it until halfway through 2004 so I couldn't really start then... >.< I'm not sure I'll be doing something with time issues like this again.
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