My second entry for the "Wake Up, People!" contest at and .

Song: "Tangerine Dream" by Do As Infinity
Drink: Citrus Squeeze from Jamba Juice

Okay, so I don't think there's any tangerine in the Citrus Squeeze. Who cares!? Not me! Citrus Squeeze with an engergy boost was breakfast for me for like a year. And actually, I don't like tangerines. Or rather, tangerine flavored things. I've never eaten an actual tangerine.

I used a scan of Lulu and Suzu that I fell in love with when I saw it. I didn't want to cut any part of the boys off, and didn't want to vector a crapload of extra boys to make it work on my screen, so I did it at the resolution of my sister's monitor since the scan was widescreen. Cell shaded with the simplified tangerine palette, then I used a flower painty scatter brush for the shadowed areas on their skin, then the narrow lines for deep shadow and the shading on their clothes. I used a little dodge/burn to make it more interesting. The bg featured a fruit brush that I stamped then dodge/burned and a very faint pattern so that it's not flat. Brushes and patterns are from Deviant Art.

One a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the hardest, this vector was a 1.2. I mean, cell shading almost felt like cheating after doing the outlining and vector-mask painting I did on the last one.

There's a secret yaoi shout out in the wall (other than the boys sleeping together).

Enjoy!