Ya know, this picture started out as a piece I was gonna call "Fall", where a girl was falling out of the sky and the face of the one she was falling for was kinda superimposed in the sky...

...Somehow, the whole 'falling' thing turned into a forshortening experiment, and before I knew it Kai had worked her way into my lovey-dovey picture with some kick-ass acrobatics.
So I went with it, and this is what happened. I'm actually pretty happy with the forshortening on Kai's arms and legs. Torque is always cool too.

I just really wish I had that innate talent that a lot of artists have for portraying wind through hair and cloth. I can't seem to get it right, and trust me, I've tried.

In the upper-left is Saelier, upper-right is Hallow, bottom-left is Maylee, and bottom-right is Takiba.
These are pretty much the final designs. I can't seem to improve on them anymore than this. I think that's a good thing.

And I used a round nib for this piece, though I normally only use round nibs for backgrounds. I really liked how the lineart was really accentuated as opposed to how my lines look when done in a G-pen nib. Problem is, I'm not really compatible with round nibs and zooming in in Photoshop really shows how jagged the lines are and all. Oh well. Practice makes perfect, huh?

Time: ?? Coloring was about three hours.
Photoshop CS3, Intuous 3, Mechanical pencil, round-nib, Deleter3 ink, printing paper.