Microsoft Bob-tan

Inspired by Kattlanna's character design, here's my interpretation of her Microsoft Bob-tan as she looks today.

Here's Kattlanna's original sketch and character bio for Bob-tan: [link]

All I did, really, was add the smiley-face badge as a callback to the original Microsoft Bob packaging, and give Bob-tan a simple barrette, all the better to keep her hair out of her face while working and still look somewhat stylish.

My hand isn't as steady as I'd like it -- in fact, it cramped severely while drawing this -- and I'm far from being a trained artist, but I've been having some good results lately using a combination of MyPaint (think of it as on open source Corel Painter workalike) and a Wacom Bamboo tablet. This represented my first serious effort to do character artwork in this fashion, and I had wanted it to have a sort of "hand-made" feel. Instead, it came out like a six-year-old drew it. Sigh...

EDIT: I've replaced this with an improved version with better (and by "better" I mean "actual") shading and coloring techniques. Can you believe I used MyPaint to create two actual artwork pieces and didn't even discover it had a Layers function? Yeah. Oh well, enjoy my improved version...

Still, they say practice makes perfect. Let me know what you think, and I'll see if I can't do more and improve myself.