I'm finally done with this!!

I consider this one of my most hardest worked on fan arts yet as well as being one of the projects that tests my Photoshop CG'ing skills. This I have spent the longer hours working on as well as being my very first anime style CG piece I ever done.

I had this idea in mind for a good long while now after receiving KOS-MOS's swimsuit in Xenosaga 3. When I first saw it, it looked pretty damned awesome and not to mention fucking HAWT ( XD ) that I said I WOULD draw it one day and I have!

This is set up as a postcard of having KOS-MOS on vacation somewhere wishing everyone the best wherever the hell she is. XD :acks bags::

Character: I consider this my all time best rendering job I have ever drawn. Even to me everything looks right when I first drew her. I took a pose from one of my artbooks and applied it to her. I then took stock pics of her character entry from the game used that as reference to coloring her as well as the little details. She is missing her cute little shoes but I prefered her barefoot since she is out in the sand and because I wanted to try drawing feet for the first time. I must say her feet are one of the things I actually got to look right for once! XD I also tried a new method by coloring the lineart to match the inner colors anime style. Like for example, making the outlines of her hair a darker blue, or making the outlines of her skin a darker tan color, so that theres no black outlines at all. I also changed the brush size I used from 4 to 3 and it looks less bold in the outlines. Only thing that bothered me was drawing that f****** hand of hers. XD It still doesn't look right to me. T_T

Background: The background was composed of my brush using skills. I tweaked the opacity's and fill of the brushes to get the different looking effects in the clouds as well as the ocean water.

To those interested, here is the lineart to KOS-MOS if they want to color it. You have my permission as long as I can see it in the end and as usual credit me accordingly.

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Enjoy the fanservice.

Media: Sketchbook, Mechanical Pencil, Tablet, Photoshop CS2

KOS-MOS (C) NAMCO/BANDAI

-TRINO 2007