5ds Yusei: Birthday Gift for Friend

Yusei Fudo is the protagonist from Yugioh 5ds animated series. This fanart was dedicated to my friend for her birthday, who likes Yusei a lot. His name is prounounced "you-say", and this leads to many jokes, like "what did Yusei/you say?!"

This image was on a birthday card, which me and two of my friends collaboratively worked on. I worked on drawing and colouring up Yusei, while they did the card itself.

I did the artwork with mouse, and it cramped my hand really badly! And I barely remembered to eat or drink, just trying to get it done on time for my friend's birthday. I have a tablet but it kept losing connection. And I was under a lot of stress, so I just opted for mouse. I didn't think of just changing the batteries! When under stress you don't think right!

My hand might have been a total wreck, but with the power of friendship, I persisted onwards.

It took about 3 days to finish with mouse, and I finished it two hours before the birthday party! Yikes!

I used Art Rage 3, and mouse *tears of pain*

Here's a pretty purpley scribble, that will materialize into Yusei. 

I inked in his clothing first, because his hair and hand would take more time.

 I wanted his hand to look like an elegant waiters' hand (but I changed it in the final version)

I inked in his hair and cake, and changed his arm.

The hand looked weird to people, so I changed it last minute! lol

And then, Yusei is finished with all his pretty colours! <3

I kept thinking that if I messed up on her most adored and treasured character Yusei, she would kick my butt! So I made it look amazing for her pretty eyes to see! n__n;; So if she ever get's angry, I'll pull up Yusei, and hopefully she has enough forgiveness in her heart, to forgive my lowly soul.