Yesterday I was talking to a friend about commissioning a new necklace using the StarReader Universe symbol. When she asked which one that was, I set out to the 'net to find a reference image.

To my surprise, I couldn't find one. Since I was at a restaurant, I didn't have access to my files in order to show her. At last night, I was too exhausted from traveling from Boston to Minneapolis to find the image.

Usually I spend a great deal of time cleaning up my lineart prior to coloring. It can be the most agonizing part of any art I produce. My unwitting mentor Yoshitoshi aBe, however, seems much more comfortable with sketchiness. As an experiment, I've decided to dispense with the cleaning regimen and push right to the coloring. Hopefully the roughness of the lineart won't be as appearent in the final version.