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I really have a love for the wizard of oz and its characters, I guess to me it was sort of like the first jrpg haha. I had sketched these up and a good friend really brought them to life with color.
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These were some of the character sketches I did before to fool around with their designs.
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I really Just wanted to try my hand at a full color piece so the Tinman became my first real experiment with photoshop coloring and taking it as far as I could.