SUCH A CREATIVE TITLE. JE SUIS LE MEILLEUR.

Well, yeah. I haven't been submitting anything decent/anything actually in color for quite some time now, mostly due to the fact that I have a billion and a half works in progress. This was actually more for experimental purposes, which is why the coloring is rushed and the lineart is sketchy. Still, the outcome is pretty decent, except for A FEW THINGS LOL:
The hand looks huge. I was supposed to have it holding out in front of her a bit but I need to learn how to accentuate depth with such a small, well, focus.
The eyes are a bit crooked and they don't really look the same. (They're drawn differently.)
The hand overall is badly drawn and to actually maintain that position is actually quite painful. I tried it and my hand hurt.
The stem/leaves of the roses. It's all too unnaturally bright green.
Her mouth is crooked.
Her neck/head position is botched, as is her torso. Her right side of her torso (your left) is uneven compared to the other side. You can try to imagine that her left (your right) shoulder is going toward the viewer. It would make a bit more sense that way.
Her eyebrows are crooked. Stupid facial position. I never drew a head tilted like that before anyway...
The shading is off (behind the roses) and the reflected colors are done wrong.
The white dots aren't visible on the screen because of the way I edited it.
I forgot to sign it so I had to CG my sig in the top corner. Turned out pretty good.

... That feels much better. D:

I got to use my new Micron pen (01 brown, the tip of my 05 is shot because I used it too much) and my white gel pen, and the dots were done with a new brush I bought. It's thin, and I really needed a thin brush to use. Plus the make is discontinued so I bought it at a discount. I need to buy a new set of dry pastels though. I lost all mine, except for only a few colors, 3 of which I used here. (Yellow, green, blue.) I took the suggestion my friend had to make the BG bluish to add more contrast with the foreground. As you can see, I tried drawing roses... Recently I've been trying to branch out by using other elements in my anime/manga stuff. It's a slow process, but in the past month I have learned to draw trees, rocks, flowers (shown here), and some other stuffs too. Useful. lol. This pic is pretty simple, but I really needed to get rid of my block. I NEED NEW COPIC SKIN COLORS. D: They're all dying on me and all I have are dark ones. I guess I'll draw dark-skinned characters then. (LOL AN IDEA! ) I like the color combination here. I don't think I've ever used these colors together like this before. Aiight, so, enjoy!

MATERIALS USED: Micron 01 (brown), Copic sketch markers, Marvy white gel pen, white calligraphy ink _{(using a thin brush to apply rather than a calligraphy pen like I usually do)}, Prismacolor white charcoal pencil, dry pastel, all on bristol board. Touch-ups, sig, and border done on PSP X.
REFERENCE USED: [link] by *Giname for the drawing of the rose, and the coloring turned out quite similar, even though I wasn't looking at the original while I was coloring it. This guy is, like, a freaking Copic genius. Him and *toounit. Amazing. ;D