So, today's my birthday (January 13th), so I figured I should do a piece with the number 13 in it. At first, I was set on doing some sort of graffiti-based thingermajigger, and I had even drafted it and selected colors and whatnot, when I figured... why not make a piece that would also work as an entry for a contest?

So, I was looking through the contests I was following, and one of them was titled 'Genderbends / Alter Egos!', by: envythejealous. Before now, I was pretty sure I was going to make a masculine version of Riela (a character from the game 'Valkyria Chronicles'*), because her hair was awesome.

Then I noticed that her number in the game is 13! So it was perfect! And I was so excited, about the coincidence and about doing Riela.

So I banged out the draft within an hour and then added the details and colored it another [hour], and made three documentations. This is the first one, a picture of the basic pencil sketch of the general shape (the top is all faded-out because of the terrible lighting, sorry).

(*This is labeled 'Personal' because I couldn't find 'Valkyria Chronicles' under 'Video Games')

(*Also, I've never played Valkyria Chronicles)