i don't draw in the irises with sketches
for two reason, one) so many circles in a small area are painful to look at, so two) little details like that i leave in my head
True. I draw them but just as vague shading in the sketches I do.
I did the lineart of Kristie, but I'm gonna scan that before I color it, so that on the offhand chance that I can ever learn to use vectors, I can make it look good without having to figure out where the borders on the colored version are. I use colored pencil for that sort of thing, and not the fancy kind, the stuffty kind, because I cannot afford anything better.
...Almost wondering if it would be a mistake to color it.