Dasher the fox - again

Well, this one has a bit of a story behind it. MY art class was doing cork etchings (to print with later like a stamp), and I was at a loss for what to do. Then, I decided to do Dasher. I used my old pic of him for a reference, and added a background and some modifications to fit the classes' requirements. So, I eventually finished it, and the print was horrible. So, instead of putting the cruddiness up here, I took my original carving and scanned it in.

I took my tablet to it and did the lineart by tracing over the scanned image. Then, the usual coloring came. Next, I did the effects on his tail, the butterfly, and the flower. I was really bored, so I took it a step further and used Photoshop's render thingies to shade. Then, the look of the lineart was bugging me, so I decided to try something I've never done before: I colored my lineart. There is actually no black in this, just dark shades of colors.

This was more a CGing experiment than anything, so please excuse the bad lineart.

2 hours to carve, 30 minutes to trace my carving, 2 hours for the initial effects and coloring, 30 minutes to get the shading just right, then another hour experimenting with the lineart.

Sorry 'bout the long description!