Horizakura finished all the black and gray shading on my arm during our 135th appointment! I am very excited to have passed another milestone in the process. After we wrapped up the appointment, Horizakura had mentioned that the next appointment would be the start of color! While you might imagine that I was exploding with joy at the news, I had to burst the bubble myself. I pointed out a couple spots that had been missed as Horizakura worked his way around my body. There is a wave on my left arm, a spot on my shoulder, and one of the dragon’s whiskers on my back never got shaded back in 2017 when he was working on that area. As Horizakura looked these parts over, he also realized that he still needed to shade Fudo’s skin as well! This was absent from my own list because Fudo-Myoo is sometimes rendered with blue skin and I wasn’t sure if Horizakura would choose to go that route or the (probably more traditional) black/gray skin route. He tends to show a lot of restraint with color in his work, so I should have guessed the skin would be tattooed black. Anyway, all that is to say we are not quite out of the Black and Gray Woods yet! We are very, very close though and I am very, very excited!