This is the digital recreation of something I actually drew during one of our scheduled power-outages here, by candle-light on paper. I considered coloring the original linework, but I didn't like how the proportions and the naga's face came out in the end. I liked the idea enough though, so I decided to recreate it, and I must say I'm very glad I did ^ . ^



I drew this piecemeal in between my commissions, overall taking little time to complete. I approached it somewhat differently again, where I started out using black-and-white shading on everything, then adding all the color last with a layer set to Multiply. A rather efficient approach that I'll definitely use in the future :3



Don't know whether I'll adopt Nikita as an OC, but I really enjoyed drawing her, and I like the idea of a sluggy naga. So much room for activities inside a stretchy predator like that >3< Her blue and purple hair color combination is born out of my love for the whole 80's retro-futuristic aesthetic. I've just always loved that color combination.



Let me know what you think! ^o^b Comments are always pure deliciousness to me, and therefore always welcome~!