Swashbuckling

Looong overdue art trade with

She had made me a beautiful x-men pillow, and in return I was to draw her a Nightcrawler illustration.

I had some difficulty trying to get a good pose, and got frustrated with it,
I had something done by Anime Iowa, but I felt it would have been insulting to give her something that I wasnt totally happy with, and that displayed my skills.
SO! I gave it another shot,
And Im pretty happy with it! My coloring is a little rusty, i havent done a complete illustration in a long time, @__@; I really need to get back into it.
Scanner butchered the blue sky background that I had done, a little frustrating but i tried bringing it forward with some photoshop level/color adjustments.

I hope you like this girl!! Swashbuckling Nightcrawler, I still feel like I could do so much better, but I'm much happier with this than my original piece. I hope its to your liking! If you'd like i can mail the hard copy to you, : )