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DEAR AMMY THIS TOOK FOREVER.

Well, not really, because obviously I finished. This was one of those pieces where you just keep working and working and suddenly you have nothing left to work on, and you're like like "Oh, I'm done." I started it mid-November... I really enjoyed working on it, though. I had trouble figuring out how to do the grass, but I think it worked out. And look--real flowers!

Anyway. I've always seen Shiranui as less a being of grace and beauty than of power and majesty, so I wanted to reflect that here--a creature whose breath is the warm spring breeze and whose growls are thunder, and who is as likely to lick your face as it is to tear it off. It lives in a painted world, but its nature is impossible to capture with ink alone... which is why Shiranui lends itself wonderfully to digital media, I think, despite my preference for traditional ink paintings.

This is possibly the most time-absorbing piece I've done, and it's certainly the biggest digital piece I've done at 125.7 MB, 29 layers (only 22 visible), and... a lot of pixels. OTZ

Done in PSE4, based on a pencil sketch (see alternate version here: [link] )

The music that kept me going: [link]

Brushes used: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

Prints and posters available in my Etsy shop! [link]

Description
DEAR AMMY THIS TOOK FOREVER.

Well, not really, because obviously I finished. This was one of those pieces where you just keep working and working and suddenly you have nothing left to work on, and you're like like "Oh, I'm done." I started it mid-November... I really enjoyed working on it, though. I had trouble figuring out how to do the grass, but I think it worked out. And look--real flowers!

Anyway. I've always seen Shiranui as less a being of grace and beauty than of power and majesty, so I wanted to reflect that here--a creature whose breath is the warm spring breeze and whose growls are thunder, and who is as likely to lick your face as it is to tear it off. It lives in a painted world, but its nature is impossible to capture with ink alone... which is why Shiranui lends itself wonderfully to digital media, I think, despite my preference for traditional ink paintings.

This is possibly the most time-absorbing piece I've done, and it's certainly the biggest digital piece I've done at 125.7 MB, 29 layers (only 22 visible), and... a lot of pixels. OTZ

Done in PSE4, based on a pencil sketch (see alternate version here: [link] )

The music that kept me going: [link]

Brushes used: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

Prints and posters available in my Etsy shop! [link]