We'll be Taking Your Soul Now

Fanart for Soul Eater. I'll admit I was skeptical of this show when I watched the first couple of episodes. I rather thought it was going to be fairly generic. Don't let those first couple of episodes fool you. Once I got past them I was completely hooked. Enough so that I went and worked on this instead of my contest pieces for Hakubaikou's annual Kenshin contest.

If you're not familiar with the show I'm sure this picture looks a bit bizarre. The two characters are Soul and Maka. Maka's a weapons technician (meister by the show's lingo) and Soul's...well he's a weapon honestly. Here you catch him mid-metamorhposis between his human form and his scythe form, although he had already transformed his arm. And the red things floating about are evil souls.

Moving past the character files, I once again tried a different method of coloring. I wonder if I'll ever settle into any one style? Umm...I think this is my first completely Photoshopped piece ever...though that's probably a lie. I don't honestly remember. Everything was done in the program. Lineart was hand drawn and most of the coloring was by hand as opposed to the pen tool. I think I did pretty well anatomically but the poses aren't the greatest, so I tilted the picture to make it slightly less boring. Not sure how I feel about the background and I may still go back and change it. I think that's about it.

Photoshop CS
Wacom Intuos3 Tablet