Sprites /Art WIP/Showcase topic

[TheMeadTree]

Don't mean to be tripleposting/hogging the thread, but man you guys gotta share your work more


In the meantime, more PM fan art

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Process [8 Hrs for clean linework, 12 more for rendering]:

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First time I actually went about doing a painting in an orderly manner. Lesson learned, it's extremely time-consuming.
Clean linework, mask, shadow multiply layer clipped to mask, layers for each individual material (light and shadow separated), followed by a final overpaint layer... Usually I just go from messy linework to overpaint and skip 10 hours of tedium, but that has the wonderful benefit of costing me 10 hours of drawing stuff over and over again later on. There's no cutting down on time, but at least this organized method gives me more guarantee for success.

As an aside, all these hours of painting have started to pay off:

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