Thanks for all the feedback! =^_^=  I'm really 
glad people like it. ^_^  I'll try to answer all 
the questions, but note that I worked until 
midnight last night and had to get up to go back 
to work at 6:30 this morning. . . So if I forget 
something or am incoherent, you know why. @_@  ^_^

How long did it take? I'm not sure, but at 
*least* ten hours. (Not counting time spent 
waiting for paint to dry. *yawn* ^_^;)

The lines: The black lines were all lazer printed 
onto the acetate. (Thankyou Kinko's!) This didn't 
make things as easy as it sounds since I had to 
do a *LOT* of cleaning up of stray bits of toner. 
All the colored lines (that divide the different 
shades of the same color) were hand-painted by 
me. The painted lines were the trickiest and the 
main thing I learned is that the viscosity of the 
paint is the key. Too thin and you see right 
through it. Too thick and it doesn't go on 
smoothly enough to create an even line. o_0  In 
short, it's a complete pain in the @$$. ^_~;;

The design: The characters in the image are from 
the anime Ai no Kusabi (done by AIC). This 
magazine was one of a lot of June magazines I won 
off Yahoo Japan that had Ai no Kusabi articles in 
them. In one of the articles there was a very 
small basic outline of the cover drawing - like a 
douga, only without the shading indicators. This 
is what I enlarged and had printed onto the 
acetate. I *was* going to try doing the black 
lines myself too, but thought it better to take 
the shortcut. (Besides the image needed to be 
resized anyway.)

Layering the paint: There's only one thing to 
really keep in mind - think about what is "in 
front". If the things in the image were sitting 
right in front of you, which parts would be 
physically closest? Which things lay over others? 
I did the handcuffs before I did Riki's arms 
(underneath them). Also, most of Riki was done 
before Iason (the blond character) because he's 
in front. The only major place I varied from this 
was that I painted the red of Iason's shirt proir 
to the cape because the cape was so much lighter. 
(I didn't want to lay the dark colors behind the 
light ones too much since the paints I used - 
Liquitex Arcrylics - are *not* actual cel paints, 
and they show through a tiny bit.)

I think I got it all there. ^_^   And I'm still 
looking forward to see what you do with the 
acetate, Emika!!!! ^_^  (Same with the others who 
split the acetate package with me. ^_^)

Now I better sleep some before I fall over into 
my keyboard. . . (*ZZZZzzzzzzzz......*)

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac