I find my obsessions here

I must admit............ I used photoshop to plan the typo and design elements jdjddjdk

Using tracing paper on my wacom felt so wrong ngl

If you never tried (seriously) painting in mspaint, you should ! It's not as hard as a lot of people say it is, and it's a great exercise in painting (at least if you do it like me) :) it forces you to analyse the colors more because you can't color pick, you can't correct them with like hues or levels and you don't have special layers to help you. But it's still digital art so it's cheaper than to buy real paints and you don't have to mix them or worry about them drying ...ect... It's actually pretty close to my gouache process now that I think about it- but less annoying and hard and nerve wracking (when I was forced by art school to make gouache studies- terrible memories) And at the end you get a mix of digital painting and pixel art ! How fun

Also ! This is heavily based on a reference :) here is the little salmon I used for this !