"I have a surprise for you. Cover your eyes... *smooch* .. Surprised?"
poor Mizu, she's totally unaware XD

ok! so showed me this pic she did of a similar scene with the same title, only Mizu was giving Aki a peck on the cheek, and I thought it'd be fun to draw a response to that the lineart's kinda old, cuz I drew it awhile back then scanned it in to color on the computer and forgot about it XD ;OTL but now it's done~! and I quite like how it came out too.

I did a lot of experimenting with this one, mainly using different tools than my usual standbys the pencil, airbrush and blenders. everything was done with the digital watercolors, which I had never used before for a pic. I ended up having to use a bunch of layers, but it's still good. my favorite parts are her hand, which I posed for myself, and the sparkily background, which was a brush/effect thingy called Salt under the digital watercolors.

so, although the lineart's kinda old and this was my first time with that kind of tool(oh and the hair shinies, don't usually do those either..), I'm going to brace myself and ask for crits. what do you like/dislike? any tips for improvement? thank you all~

done in pencil, inked and colored with Corel Painter

Mizu Uria (c)
Aki Kotatsu (c) meeeee
Naruto (c) Masashi Kishimoto