Elegant Peacock Empress Bijoux

This is a gift for the lovely

I started this for a contest that she was giving way back in Spring. Being Slow-poke Sha, I never finished it. But seeing as it was turning out so nicely, I chose to finish it and instead make it a house-warming gift for her new move to Aussie-land...

Guava, whenever you come on, just poke me a note because I've love to send you the original if you'd like to have it...

This was done using plain old graphite pencils of varying leads...HB, H, B and 3B mainly. Along with my good ol' smudge stick. The scan, which was done in 4 parts, just doesn't do traditional media justice... There's a lot of more subtle shading that is lost.

I was REALLY in the mood to color and I went looking for my tablet which I had brought to work and couldn't find it. I wanted to specifically work on one of my commissions... Seeing as I couldn't find the darned thing (which I found when I went to bed...of course...-_-;; ), I picked up this pencil drawing and went to town. I was so into it I only mainly HEARD the Closing Ceremonies rather than saw them...

Anyway, enjoy!

Bijoux © =guava
Concept & Design © Shannon Rochon 2008

If anyone feels like coloring her, go ahead, however, please link back to this page and leave a comment leading to your version so I can see it!

Thanks!