Se7en

She knows what she wants, and you better not stand in her way! Se7en was created as the second llama in my friend's LlamaLAN 7 poster. I was very pleased with the outcome of Se7en (as she is now known) and so put her in her own background/foreground to add atmosphere and some kind of setting. After trying a few hue adjustments to the lighting, I settled on this red/blue effect.

Lineart done in ink, colouring in Photoshop CS2.

I love how the eyes came out. I also like that she looks unmistakably feminine, which took a little bit of experimentation in sketching before finalising the image. Her armour and weaponry actually come from the multiplayer game "Unreal Tournament 2004". I decided to use something from this game as its one that most attendees are going to be playing. This caused me a big problem though: the guns are very badly designed! The trigger and handle are in front of a massive cylinder, which stores the grenade shells. If this weapon existed, you couldn't hold the gun without having to bend your arm around this huge cylinder. This is why she is pretty much hugging the gun closer to her rather then holding it out. Despite this technical issue I had to get around, I was still happy with the end product.

I'm thinking of releasing this one as a print.