I know this is late, but I DID start it on Talk like a Pirate Day...! This picture came to be for a number of reasons. Obviously, to celebrate a really cool holiday X3 Also cause I loved Pirates of the Caribbean and Tony gave me this really cool book about girl pirates.

So I just got to thinking that Ao Li would make a kick-ass pirate captain. and whilst looking at Lip Service's webpage, I found this really neat pirate-like shirt, so I based Ao Li's shirt on that. It's not exact, but I think it's still pretty cool.

In the original sketch I did, I gaver her baggier pants with the thigh-high boots, but someone thought they were weird puffy momiji-like shorts, so I ditched those >__> Ao Li's dreds were inspired by our recent summer students, cause she had the coolest loose, wiry dreds <3 I wanted them. So, I gave them to Ao Li instead. And what's a pirate without a piratey pet? X3 I love that monkey X3!!

I spent a LOT of time on this @__@ I drew Ao Li n' the monkey in Paintchat and coloured it there as well. Thought she deserved a background, so I added that in painter n' fixed a few things as well. Added a few lens flares on shiny treasures in Adobe and voila!

p.s. I know it's a big file, but pleeaaase, if you can, look at the fullview. Also, you may have to press refresh a billion times to fix DA's stupid stretch n' squashing problem @__@