Gift - color

Flonne and Laharl are from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, which is (c) Nippon Ichi, I think.

Here is the colored version of my present/trade for ~Vaudevillain! It's in exchange for her Cliff/Mirage pic. My pic's not the best, but it's my first ever attempt at coloring something on the computer, instead of using colored pencils. You won't believe what I used for this...since I don't have Photoshop or anything like that...

*drumroll*

I used Microsoft Picture It! You know, the thing that comes with MS Word if you get the Works package of software (not the Office package that includes Excel and stuff).

*everybody faints*

Betcha didn't see that coming. And boy do I NOT recommend using that program for this purpose, but it's marginally better than MS Paint, and beggars can't be choosers... There's definitely either something wrong with the program or with my computer (or both) because that thing has SERIOUS memory leakage. If I worked on the pic too long, the program would eat up so much memory (RAM) that there wouldn't even be enough left available to save the pic to a file! So I eventually figured out how to do it: I did a little bit (like 10 minutes worth) and then saved, exited the program to free the memory back up, and then reopened it for the next 10 minutes of work. Which means this took about four times longer to do than it should have. It probably would have been faster to paint it with acrylics and scan it in. But it was fun to practice anyway. I may yet do another coloring job like this sometime.

Pencil version / Line Art is here: Gift - pencil
And I must admit I like the pencil version better than this, but I still like it anyway. ^_^