The picture I'm working on is taking longer than I thought it would. How hard could it be to draw an aspiring school idol?! Yes, I'm still working on my pic of Nico Yazawa from Love Live: School Idol Project, and I'm almost at the point where I feel obliged to cut off my ear. I suspect this will be my fate soon enough.

And is it "Nico" or "Niko"? When I first collected plenty of reference pics before I started, all the official stuff I grabbed spell her name "Nico". However, there's a ton of sites that spell it the latter.

Last of all, some Love Live fans scare me. I mean, when I first came up with the idea for this pic, I was also tempted to draw her schoolmate Maki Nishikino. Heck, why not both of them? So I did some searches for both...and quickly found out how some rage over Nico x Maki pairings, haha.

Well, it's back to finishing the piece. Maybe I'll get a scan up and put it in the drafts section. The background is actually the outside of her school, which makes me wonder why I attempted it in the first place. There's. so. many. little. details. to. paint, each different a color. Right now I'm working on the ground, which is actually brick...2 colors of bricks. All the major painting is finished, so it's just the painstaking detail work from now out. I've got the base-colors down, so after I've finished painting those damn bricks I'll just need to do shading and highlighting work.

Then I cut my ear off and write Nico x Maki fic all day and night.