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This is the exact same fanart of Sofie Liv that I made for her as a birthday / Christmas gift back in 2020. I'm submitting it again for the same birthday / Christmas here in 2022, plus I'm conducting a kind of experiment with this deviation.

As I said, this is a fan art caricature I made of Sofie Liv, aka The Dorky Dane, aka silverDeer, as a combined birthday and Christmas present for her.   She has been and continues to be my biggest inspiration for me continuing making my own arts, be it visual like this, or fanfiction, script writing, comics, music, performance art, comedy and what have you--primarily the visual arts and comedy.   I have plenty other people too who I also want to make arts for and about, even for a few who no longer make content but the inspiration and encouragement they gave and still give me keeps me going.   They all helped me survive artistically and even in terms of everyday real-world living, especially Sofie.

And there's a story to all this that needs telling.

This one picture took me roughly a whole year to make. This is an art I wanted to make for quite a few years and only finished as of this posting in December 2020.   That's mostly why I haven't put up any of my own deviations this past year, because I was working on just this one single image, plus I occasionally took some breaks through the year to also try to work on some music stuff.   As such, this is the one and only art picture I spent most of 2020 making.   My original plan was to have a bigger picture with even more people involved, but then just having only her in the picture was the most workable route.   I also wanted to draw this entirely by hand with Copic markers and pens just like the pros use on this site and elsewhere.

I REALLY wanted to have it finished and posted for her birthday and Christmas in 2019, so I started a month ahead of time (about how long it used to take me to hand-draw the older and more cartoony traditional arts in my gallery).   When I was finished drawing with those professional grade markers...it looked terrible.   Then I thought of just scanning it and fixing it up with my art software...and it looked worse.   So as a last resort, I just drew the whole thing right on the computer and kept at it since. I was quite disappointed that I didn't get it done in time so I aimed at having it all finished one way or another by the same day a year later. So this was originally meant for her birthday and Christmas present in 2019 and I wasn't able to finish it and finally post it until the same day in 2020. This particular deviation here is reposted the same day 2022, like I said above.

I think this is technically my seventh all-digitally drawn deviation, but while the others were really more rushed and too simple, this is my first true all-out one hundred percent earnest digital art.   I made it entirely using Paint Shop Pro 9, with a lot of MS Paint and Paint Shop Pro 3 as well, and all done on a desktop computer or two--and that's it.   Nothing portable like a tablet or laptop or the latest digital drawing software or tech, not even a Wacon tablet--which wouldn't work anyway because it would still involve sitting in one physical station every step of the way.   It does wear me down when I see so many Deviants cranking out daily pictures of Vigee Lebrun quality in just hours on a smartphone, while I'm scrambling with whatever little I have to just to work on one picture over the course of a year with a fraction of that quality. After all this I'm going back to traditional drawing for a while, with Copics, pencils, and generic markers like I used to do, just so I can get back into my groove again. And I still have at least a page or more of ideas I still want to get to, and many of those are subject matter that is no longer around but I still care so much about that I need to get those ideas out of my head and into the tangible world for all to see.

Which brings me back to this particular subject matter. Among so many other ideas, I want to see a cute picture of Sofie Liv as a Victorian, Edwardian, or otherwise turn-of-the-century lady circa 1900.   And I had that idea for so many years and figured that this occasion was the best opportunity to finally make it. As of this writing, I already drew Sofie as her real life everyday self, her original internet reviewer character, a Doctor Who companion, a Muppet, an Inhumanoid, Sherlock Holmes, a Disney space scientist, a Journey game protagonist, a Moomin character, a South Park character, an Edward Gorey character, a Skullgirls mashup, one of her own characters, a hard rock drummer (I even cosplayed that one), a metal drummer a la Dethklok, and now a vintage adorkable turn-of-the-century lady. Since she has experience in theatre acting and comedy, I can very easily see her playing a character like this, plus I have a potential fanfic brewing from this image.   Also since she is a native Dane, I wanted her to pose somewhere in front of the North Sea.   Dorky, Danish, looking like something out of My Fair Lady--there's the title.

The fashion I drew is a reference to her iconic original internet character persona from her video series Red Suitcase Adventures, a long defunct video show that I still haven't run out of ideas about, especially the characters from that show that I'll get to drawing and writing about properly someday. As for here, I kept that same iconic color scheme and switched to vintage fashions. The black bowler-derby is now a black chapeau, the short bushy blonde hair is now long and tied back strawberry blonde hair, the red scarf is now a red blouse, the black shirt-vest is now a black coat, the blue jeans is now a blue skirt, the black shoes are now...still black shoes, though hard to tell the difference under the long skirt, and of course there's that hand-held accessory that says Magenta Travelbag Experiences.

Description
This is the exact same fanart of Sofie Liv that I made for her as a birthday / Christmas gift back in 2020. I'm submitting it again for the same birthday / Christmas here in 2022, plus I'm conducting a kind of experiment with this deviation.

As I said, this is a fan art caricature I made of Sofie Liv, aka The Dorky Dane, aka silverDeer, as a combined birthday and Christmas present for her.   She has been and continues to be my biggest inspiration for me continuing making my own arts, be it visual like this, or fanfiction, script writing, comics, music, performance art, comedy and what have you--primarily the visual arts and comedy.   I have plenty other people too who I also want to make arts for and about, even for a few who no longer make content but the inspiration and encouragement they gave and still give me keeps me going.   They all helped me survive artistically and even in terms of everyday real-world living, especially Sofie.

And there's a story to all this that needs telling.

This one picture took me roughly a whole year to make. This is an art I wanted to make for quite a few years and only finished as of this posting in December 2020.   That's mostly why I haven't put up any of my own deviations this past year, because I was working on just this one single image, plus I occasionally took some breaks through the year to also try to work on some music stuff.   As such, this is the one and only art picture I spent most of 2020 making.   My original plan was to have a bigger picture with even more people involved, but then just having only her in the picture was the most workable route.   I also wanted to draw this entirely by hand with Copic markers and pens just like the pros use on this site and elsewhere.

I REALLY wanted to have it finished and posted for her birthday and Christmas in 2019, so I started a month ahead of time (about how long it used to take me to hand-draw the older and more cartoony traditional arts in my gallery).   When I was finished drawing with those professional grade markers...it looked terrible.   Then I thought of just scanning it and fixing it up with my art software...and it looked worse.   So as a last resort, I just drew the whole thing right on the computer and kept at it since. I was quite disappointed that I didn't get it done in time so I aimed at having it all finished one way or another by the same day a year later. So this was originally meant for her birthday and Christmas present in 2019 and I wasn't able to finish it and finally post it until the same day in 2020. This particular deviation here is reposted the same day 2022, like I said above.

I think this is technically my seventh all-digitally drawn deviation, but while the others were really more rushed and too simple, this is my first true all-out one hundred percent earnest digital art.   I made it entirely using Paint Shop Pro 9, with a lot of MS Paint and Paint Shop Pro 3 as well, and all done on a desktop computer or two--and that's it.   Nothing portable like a tablet or laptop or the latest digital drawing software or tech, not even a Wacon tablet--which wouldn't work anyway because it would still involve sitting in one physical station every step of the way.   It does wear me down when I see so many Deviants cranking out daily pictures of Vigee Lebrun quality in just hours on a smartphone, while I'm scrambling with whatever little I have to just to work on one picture over the course of a year with a fraction of that quality. After all this I'm going back to traditional drawing for a while, with Copics, pencils, and generic markers like I used to do, just so I can get back into my groove again. And I still have at least a page or more of ideas I still want to get to, and many of those are subject matter that is no longer around but I still care so much about that I need to get those ideas out of my head and into the tangible world for all to see.

Which brings me back to this particular subject matter. Among so many other ideas, I want to see a cute picture of Sofie Liv as a Victorian, Edwardian, or otherwise turn-of-the-century lady circa 1900.   And I had that idea for so many years and figured that this occasion was the best opportunity to finally make it. As of this writing, I already drew Sofie as her real life everyday self, her original internet reviewer character, a Doctor Who companion, a Muppet, an Inhumanoid, Sherlock Holmes, a Disney space scientist, a Journey game protagonist, a Moomin character, a South Park character, an Edward Gorey character, a Skullgirls mashup, one of her own characters, a hard rock drummer (I even cosplayed that one), a metal drummer a la Dethklok, and now a vintage adorkable turn-of-the-century lady. Since she has experience in theatre acting and comedy, I can very easily see her playing a character like this, plus I have a potential fanfic brewing from this image.   Also since she is a native Dane, I wanted her to pose somewhere in front of the North Sea.   Dorky, Danish, looking like something out of My Fair Lady--there's the title.

The fashion I drew is a reference to her iconic original internet character persona from her video series Red Suitcase Adventures, a long defunct video show that I still haven't run out of ideas about, especially the characters from that show that I'll get to drawing and writing about properly someday. As for here, I kept that same iconic color scheme and switched to vintage fashions. The black bowler-derby is now a black chapeau, the short bushy blonde hair is now long and tied back strawberry blonde hair, the red scarf is now a red blouse, the black shirt-vest is now a black coat, the blue jeans is now a blue skirt, the black shoes are now...still black shoes, though hard to tell the difference under the long skirt, and of course there's that hand-held accessory that says Magenta Travelbag Experiences.