- a long story -

i love how i completely disregard the category descriptions.

used: pencil and photoshop for flat colors and (very) slight shading.



this is the first of my portraits of characters from my comic, nine lives. i chose to do booyaka first. she's kinda messy, and loves her room, so i decided to put her there. i was listening to sonic youth at the time, so that's why i put a sonic youth poster in the back... plus, booyaka's just a hip cat (see what i did there???), so it's only natural that she'd have a sonic youth poster. it's not based on an actual poster though. so don't try to find it!

you can see the very first doodle of this here: [link]

this version is considerably larger. about double, maybe triple. i printed out the scanned sketch and traced it. this drawing takes up the entire 8.5"x11" sheet of paper that i used.


if you're wondering about the title, it comes from one of the earlier pages in the comic. when wolf finds out what her name is, he asks "what kinda name is booyaka?" and renard replies "it's a long story...". so yeah. it actually isn't her real name... but by now i've said a bit much. you'll just have to wait for the story to unfold to find out more...



enjoy!