blarg ([personal profile] napoleonherself) wrote2014-01-14 09:44 pm

When I look at Ursula Vernon things, my fancy lightly turns to thoughts of art.

Back in 2002 I bothered to remember that Elfwood existed, and that I had a gallery there. And I put up a smattering of artworks, some digital, some colored pencil. One of them I always really liked, and still have a little bit of a soft spot for even if the nose does look all disjointed -- but the scanner just ruined it. Washed out the light browns, killed the reds, just yuck. Whatever cheap crap scanner I had back then, it did not have good color reproduction AT ALL.

For a few years now I've idly thought about rescanning it. And just now I finally did!

So the much more true to life version looks like this.

rainfairy2k14rescan

The sort of vertical blob on the right is sticky left behind by the electrical tape that I used to tape a piece of tracing paper over it to keep it from smearing (I used electrical tape back then to tape tracing paper down when I was inking comics; these days I use blue painter's tape). The date in the bottom corner is from those heady 2002 days -- February 21, very nearly 12 years ago now. And while the art isn't any better than it was back then, those wings finally don't look Boring Brown With A Side Of Blah.

(Gonna xpost this to mah tumblr in a bit, but right now mecha is home with dinner so it is time to eat.)