"You wanna go this way? In this pouring rain? Get on my shoulder, I'll give you a ride!"

Though it's getting warmer, and the bad weather's relenting in Japan, we had so many rainy days in late Feb and early March. Well, It is common that we have this "spring rain" in this season, however, I got sick of commuting in rain day after day. That's the reason I got the primary idea, rainy scene, in my mind. But, I wanted to make it positive, with a heartwarming behavior that we human should have but are losing in the systematized world, using the idea of mixing fantasy creature and the real world again.

I'm still trying to enhance water expression as well as lighting expression. In fact I've never drawn a rainy scene, and it was significantly meaningful that I've learned a lot about water and light this time again, not to mention it was fun.

Anatomy, color variation, hair expression and clothes, could have more improvement. Motif, rain and BG, are good enough...now.
Though the ground looks more like a mirror than a paved road, I prefer this expression to realistic one.

Entirely done on Photoshop6 from sketch through final effects.

Hope you love her!