I finally finished one thing, and I'm actually pretty proud of it and happy to have my name attached to it. I think I learned a lot here. I have a couple of takeaways I have for my next pic:
- I'm not ready to churn out illustrations. Pushing myself to draw something without having the motivation to do it means I accomplish nothing and learn nothing. Do things for fun.
- Figure out why locking transparent on the linework layer didn't work. For some reason on certain patches the pen would draw at full opacity over no lines. Maybe partially- but not fully-erased? Check by doing "selection from layer"
- Background can be even more sparse. More black is fine. There's not a lot of background detail/saturation in this pic but I should've gone even harder.
- Integrate reference when sketching.
- Mix of solid color shapes + a little shading worked well. Was experimenting a little with using ThiccWithaQ's/Hades' coloring style. Happy with my pic but don't think I did justice to either inspiration. Coloring is hard.
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