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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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And no, I didn't paint it by hand: I did draw it by hand when it was still pencil work, but I didn't have a tablet for hand-painting on the computer when this was released.
For the ink-work, I used a vector program, named Adobe Illustrator, which let me use anchor points and such to make super-smooth lines: each line is actually a pre-calculated mathmatical equation! Dunno how much Geometry you've done, but yeah, if you know about sine curve equations, that's where they come into play here.
As for the coloring, I had to use a mouse: I first selected the outline of each body part and saved the selections, so there was no way I could "accidentally" color outside the lines, then I filled it with a flat color, then added the shadows, lighting, shiney bits (specular highlights), and so forth. I suppose I technically colored it by hand, but using a computer mouse, not a paintbrush.
Lastly, the background is a photograph that I carefully blurred and blended to mix well with the orca subject. I blurred it so as to make it appear like a photograph, with the lens focused on the creature in the foreground, making the background appear out of focus.
I hope that answers your question!
You really come a long way since you started a few years back.
You're late by 1 day sadly, but that one sure deserves a mention!