Artist's commentary
Sometime last month, someone sent me a “photo” as a thank you gift, little did she know it was actually my birthday during that day. I finally managed to get the time now to make a ‘lil artwork based on said photo as thanks for the coincidental birthday gift.
But to those who are curious what the photo looked like, well, I can’t really share the actual photo for privacy reasons, so below is the traced/rotoscoped version.
https://media.tumblr.com/40ff2fca6924dbeff886ac88e91e41fe/tumblr_inline_pegalds9wi1rfxl6c_1280.jpg
To be honest, it’s extremely rare for me to get these sort of photos nowadays since I don’t look for “references” anymore. (I have more freedom in animating from imagination than rotoscoping) So I’m really thankful to those few who gave me “gifts” in the past.