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ACEO - Bioluminescence

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My half of an ACEO trade with :icontatchit: over :iconaceofursxchange:. This is her awesome, beautiful magnificent character Zio, a wolf/fox/paradise bird creature. :heart: I knew the moment I saw Zio's reference I had to draw him, he's just so lovely. It was a pleasure to draw Zio, I can tell you, I enjoyed every moment.

Ookay. As you can see, the background has got some influences from Avatar (yes, THE blue-cats-run-in-the-forest-in-loincloths-Avatar), I couldn't help it. Zio's colours and the preferred enviroment/whatever made me think of Pandora right away.
I also added a nice extra - nightglowing paint. I always try to use it whenever the picture has a good theme and this ACEO was definitely a great piece to apply nightglowing paint on. Okay, it has some cons: it has to be applied VERYthickly in order to gain any effect in the dark and that's why it made the scan even more screwed.
The scanis actually the thing I wanted to complain - once again. It. Is. SCREWED. I gave up hope with the stripe problem. It seems it's somewhat permanent -> my scanner is broken, no, ruined. I want a new scanner. :( Christmas is coming but I don't have high hopes since I never get any big presents and I don't have any money either. So if you want to see more of my art with BETTER scans, please consider commissioning me so I can afford a new one.

End of the commercial part.

I'm very eager to send this to Tatchit. :D The scan is bad and the nightglowing effect can't be seen so Tatchit will be the only one who can enjoy the effect.
I hope you like it! :)

Medium ACEO card (6.35mm x 8.89mm) Bristol paper | Neopiko liner | watercolours | nightglowing paint
Time taken 4-5 hours

Zio c *Tatchit
Art c =ShadeofShinon

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Very pretty! I love the dark colors & glow-ish background! But, if you say it's been ruined by the scanner, tell it I hate its guts.

I can relate to the scanner issue. Actually, it's my computer's disk driver that won't work. Every time I try to install something new, it never recognizes that there's a CD in it. I've given up trying to fix it, it looks like I'll have to get a new one. Soon.

I never really thought you could use nightglow (or glow-in-the-dark, whatever suits your fancy) paint on a picture. I know I can't see it, but I'll bet it's lovely!

And, I loved the movie Avatar. I can see where the inspiration came in. Oh, I have a special, Avatar-themed T-shirt that glows in the dark. I have to wash it inside-out to protect the glow-in-the-dark patterns, but it's well worth it.