Penelo Colors RabidGundam

Well, while I've been working on the plan for the last major scene of my latest story, I took a bit of time to try and color in a sketch that did for me a few months ago!

I tried to have some fun with textures here, and I did a little bit of work with free-form shading (as opposed to the pen-tool I used to make the cel-shading on Penelo herself), and I don't think it turned out too badly here... I learned quite a bit about coloring, and a few new techniques that I can't wait to try on a future picture, but for now, this is my 2nd full attempt at coloring something!

I hope this doesn't look so terrible as to make people cringe, but hey - huge thanks to RabidGundam for being kind enough to not only sketch out the lines for Penelo, but to let me color her and post her up here! I just want to point out that any imperfections in the lineart are because this was a SKETCH on his part and nothing super-finished, but I still think she looks cute!

I had a hell of a time with the lightsource and trying to define the shape of her body, but who knows - if people don't hate this and I can come across a 3rd picture I like, maybe I'll try again...