Lucids: Ken & Sakura Awake

The week of the Fourth of July was pretty crazy.  Between having like five days at my current job in a row at different times (including a morning shift, bleck!) and the parties, I just could not motivate myself to update last week.  Sorry about that.  Hopefully, I can return to the weekly flow I had going on.

Anyway, I have a little drawing featuring two of my Lucids.  ...except they are not acting as Lucids right now.

I may have explained this before, but in the universe of Lucids, the Lucids perform their tasks in a "reality" constructed by the thoughts and imagination of living beings: the Dream Dimension.  However, aside from very rare cases, Lucids do not actually live there.  A Lucid visits that dimension when he falls asleep, sending his mind and heart there while leaving the body unconscious until he awakens.  During the daytime (or whenever he sleeps), that Lucid just lives his ordinary life for the most part.

Basically, I drew this picture to show off Ken Thunder and Sakura Miyazaki in the real world for a change.  Unlike a lot of the images I have shown of these two before, I drew this one in pencil before coloring it in Photoshop.  I wanted to experiment a bit with the Color layer style, but that mainly just made the lines the color that I was using, which would be fine if the parts without much pencil shading were not pure white.  Therefore, I ended up laying down a slightly darker color underneath the sketch.  When that didn't work as well as I had hoped, I finished coloring the picture, copied the colored layer, and turned to a lumiosity layer.  It was the finally just about the effect I wanted, but I could have accomplished the same thing by just using a normal layer for the color.

I wanted to illustrate a picture like this to try and establish a couple of little differences in how these two characters are designed.  1.) Ken is a little taller than Sakura.  2.) Sakura's skin is a little more pink than Ken's skin.  Also, Ken and Sakura do know each other in the real world.

Overall, I am happy with how Ken came out in this one, and I think I did well coloring Sakura, but I could have drawn her better.  Maybe I could have made her right arm do something, and I wonder if the look of amazement I tried to draw in Sakura's face leans a bit too close to "dull surprise".