Melding of Love

"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain." -Shakespeare
"Even through stormy days, love will not quiver, but will stand firmly-unwavering, unflinching, unshakeable-and will persist to see the dewdrops from the new day's dawn." -me

The dark blue, kinky clouds represent all the gloom/conflict that can happen in everyday life. But, with your lover(or best friend/family) by your side, you can brave the storm and everything will turn out alright. Knowing this, you can be sure to not only wish for but to be able to live happily in a beautiful future. (ehh..okay, so I'm a bit of a hopeless romantic. xP )
made this as a wedding card :3

Shoutouts:
Congratulations to my big cousin Sun YingDi(孙颖迪） and WenWen（石雯） upon getting married! Also, congrats to him on being able to achieve his dream as a professional pianist. He won first place in the 7th International Liszt Competition. I'm soooo proud of him and happy that all his hard work paid off. Listen to him play here: [link] Info: [link]

Congratulations to Andrea&Todd, my teacher's friends, upon getting married too!!

pic: mmm, it's still pretty rough coloring. Yes, the storm clouds look totally fake. They're just a figment of my imagination and how I felt like depicting "troubles". I also have a hard time picking what colors to use(especially skin tones) x__x;; And I feel like my color picker in PS is defected. -__- The suit is weird and it looks like his waist is a bit too high. Ohoh, I drew two hands together!! yay-ness. xD I wanted to refine it more(add more colors, blend more, add designs to the gown and suit, etc) but my parents were complaining that I already spent too much time on this one and refused to let me continue. T__T rawr. I actually finished this pic in the weekend but simply didn't get around to posting it until now. shrug. meh, I'm still fairly happy with it. ^__^

invisible watermark added (Ctrl-A), so i had to lower the opacity a little. it's kind of faint though.
Tools: Photoshop7, Open Canvas 3.05eplus(free trial), Wacom Graphire4 Tablet
Time(really rough estimates): 2-3hours sketch(I kept having to redraw the sketch and I was working on&off on it); 2hours lineart; 3hours color(I colored it in one sitting! yay!) ; 1.5 hour edits