Sunrise Ride

Under no circumstances is anyone allowed to use this image for their own. While I will not condone use as a reference image you MUST link back to this picture and give me credit where credit is due. If I find it anywhere it does not belong without a link back to me or edited and claimed as another's I will not hesitate to act. You have been warned!

This is the image I used for my Tarot card design, but I wanted to upload the image without the boarder and the caption for the card. So here it is! This took me forever to manage and considering it's really, truly, been years since I last tried to draw an animal of any kind I'm really happy with how the dog-like creature named River turned out!

The background on this took me the better part of 7 hours to complete while Blade and River both, just the sketch, took me two days to complete. All in all this one picture, start to finish, took me three full days. I am very happy with how it turned out and I hope any who look at this will like it too. I know I messed up a bit in several places but hey, no one's perfect.

I also want to give a big, HUGE thank you to my friend for helping me figure out what to put in the background instead of just me being a lazy butt and putting a simple gradient. I never would've been able to figure out what to do for the background without your help !

Time Taken: 3 Days
Media used: Sketching pencils (6H, 3H, and HB), Sketchbook, Erasers
Program used: Photoshop CS5
Total Layers used: +/- 30
Artwork/Blade Kishitani/River (c):
Guillotine Cross/Mount System/Sograt Desert (c): Gravity/Ragnarok Online