I'm just here for the pretty art

I GRADUATED, I'M FREE 🎉Of course the first thing I had to do was finish was the Vere sketch.

As for the idea, I was just thinking about Vere and his lore... he makes me sad. To live imprisoned and chained to follow other's orders. I'll keep exploring methods to create even stronger compositions in the future, but nevertheless I wanted to capture that feeling, mostly through color and overall atmosphere, and Vere's expression. My idea was making a piece where we as the viewers first just go "ooh pretty, graceful..." as a first impression, but the closer you look, he doesn't look particularly joyous or flirty... and you realize, a gorgeous prisoner is still a prisoner.

I shall make a separate post later on with extra words related to the whole "I graduated" thing. So many ideas I want to make 🥀

As a treat, here's some closeups 💖

I had to nerf the file size for social media, my beloved 10k pixels tall monstrosity <3