#2024 work

I used inks, a pinch of watercolour, and some liner pens to outline.

I scanned it and barely had to adjust the colours! I even tried to lower the saturation, but it looked worse, so I left it. It's vibrant irl, but not that vibrant.

I haven't done any big traditional painting like this since maybe the last DBredraw I did? Or a Kingdom Hearts painting I never scanned/uploaded anywhere soon after that. It's been a while!! This really brought back the passion I have for the process. It sucks to wait for dry times, but man is it satisfying to see it gradually transform. Especially if you take progress pics like I did.

Oh, and here's the unedited border version. It looks a lot more clean with the digital border.

Of course I touched up some other things too, and the piece of paper is so big (compared to my tiny scanner bed) that I needed like 6 different scans of it to get the whole thing without it being blurry. The scanning and editing part took a couple hours in itself! Yeesh.

Would recommend though! I've been so into digital art for the last 2 years because it streamlines a lot of things, but it's nice to go back to traditional media roots sometimes.

the deadline is tomorrow...! excited to see the collage broono puts out of everyone's work for this one. what a beautiful tribute idea.

Ah...okay maybe the colours weren't *that* bright