heavens, it's been ages since I had a fresh devID. I'm gonna be a windbag about it because it turned out better than I expected.

first off, ever since I got on dA, I balked at using a self portrait. I'm kind of hypersensitive to the tendency of the insecure to glamorize themselves in drawings of their online personalities or "fursonas" or whatnot. it's a pitfall I don't want to catch me. heaven knows I'm nowhere near the most attractive person in the world.

on an aside (these two things will meet shortly), lately I've thought about Halloween costumes. not because I expect to dress up, because I haven't in years and years, but because I vaguely like the thought. and I keep thinking of dressing like a kitsune. not so hard, right? I already have the yukata (well, two now), though I'd be lacking the kitsune Noh mask and the tails (the latter easily enough obtained on eBay). good? good.

so while wrangling with this devID problem and clearing out my messages, I stumbled upon a drawing including a mask and thought of the kitsune costume. but I'm not really a fox. I've been identifying more and more lately with deer.

next thing I knew, I was designing a deer mask based loosely on the kitsune type.

so anyway, lines traced (yeah, traced, I maybe wrongly tend to think of devIDs worth less effort and it's not as though I can't do realism--see my other self portraits for example :B) and colors referenced HONESTLY (NO GLAMOR) from a photo of me wearing the yukata I bought in Japan. let's read my expression as "thoughtful" or "enigmatic" or something, rather than "dead." >_>

I am pretty proud of that mask.

openCanvas 1.1, 2.24E, psp 5, photoshop elements.