This is an old drawing from September of 2005. I posted it on my deviantArt back in December, but I’m going to share it here again.

I went lighter with the shadeing this time. Also another thing I added was doing gradients. It’s just a very quick stroke using a large airbrush otherwise everything remains cel-shaded and inked. Another addition is the texturing done on the briefcase. I went onto the Internet and found some stock images of cracked and broken leather, scaled it and tried some different blending filters until I got the effect I wanted.

Below is the original sketch. If you compare the two you’ll see that there are some changes — mainly to her briefcase. The only thing I really dislike about this illustration are the hands. They seem kinda weird and I didn’t fully want to correct them. Chalk that up to laziness. Her expression’s also a bit different in the sketch. I feel that it’s more “girl next door” instead of “sex kitten” but that maybe because in the grayscale sketch she appears to be smiling with her teeth showing, whereas in the illustration she appears to have her lips parted and maybe she’s puckering? Or maybe I should really go back and give her a white band of teeth.