Inner Ego

My first drawing of 2015!

Wow this is the biggest psd file I've ever done. Over 600 mb and 210 layers....I know I'm probably really inefficient with layers, but I like to know that I can always go back to something to change it and I definitely went back to each layer to make it better. There was always something that I needed to tweak and improve on. I've been working on this for a whole month. 

Since I learned the magic of clipping mask layers, I felt like using it to color my drawings in a new way. Mostly just putting blobs of color over the line art and shading them through clipping mask layers. 

As far as why I like to draw myself this way, it's just a bit of self love really. I just wanted to draw how I like to envision myself. I'd be more than happy to wear that outfit and have that scythe XD 

A friend of mine gave me tips on shading the eyes...they ended up so shiny and kawaii, but it was better than how I did it originally. I just realize now that I forgot to draw in my glasses.....oh well  

I used this as a reference. I tried to draw that pose, but I ended up changing it so much that all that's left from that reference are the legs.