>:3

people have commented about how I start off with rough blobs of color instead of a detailed sketch. the simple reason for that is that I avoid sketches unless I need one.

...and the reason for that is that painting over a sketch makes me worse at painting. my problem is that even though I know this, it feels like a sketch should save time—the proportions will be more accurate to begin with, and the lines can get blended into shadows. but then I try it again and get too precious about painting inside the lines, end up using smaller brushstrokes than I should, get the values wrong and start working on details before I've fixed the big problems, etc etc.

I tried to stick as close as possible to the original in terms of pose/color scheme/etc. the strong green light was an ambitious artistic decision that I did not have the skill to execute 5 years ago, and even now, working in a more forgiving medium and with a much better reference, it was still a struggle.