'Like this...'

A sewing-machine induced hand injury gave me an exuse to take a sebatical from the net and drawing for a while. I gathered my thoughts, nursed my wound, sat on my ass and got inescapibly involved in an intimitadingly large project that I'm unseccessfully trying to keep hush-hush. Now that I'm (sorta) back, it seems only fitting that my first new post be a picture of my favorite little horrible, vulgar, and quite possibly infected pirate baby. Ahh, Rufus, I love you so. I wouldn't trust you farther then I could throw you, but still.

Note: I'm experimenting with a new coloring technique to make it not only quicker but easier to make a full picture. Thanks to new methods, the basic coloring and shading to this pic was pretty quick (once I figured out what the hell I was doing). The lighting, on the other hand...

[EDIT] That scallywag ~1337noRenkinjutsushi wrote up a companion peice. [link] Feast your juicy eye-meats upon its' shiny surface.

Hand inked, bitch-slapped in Photoshop.
Stock photo: [link]
Rufus (c) ~Maggie-Bones