#qualat

A random chibi Chrome with differently sized ears oops haha, started just to try getting used to Krita. I did get most of the important features to work as I'm used to in CSP, but idk. It still feels so noticeably un-fluid at times 😅 maybe I can get used to it tho, over time.

I'm also still weirded out at how the opacity of many brushes works; having to press the pen much harder than what I'm strictly comfy with. My hand feels quite a bit more strained which I'm not a fan of. But maybe there's some more settings I could play with.

Also. The transform tool. feels incredibly weird too 🙈 I still haven't figured that out either.

Omg you don't believe how much I've noodled around on this in the past days, it was so frustrating XD Which is why I'm so happy that I finally found a direction for his coat that I'm happy with!

Continued this today...

Instead of just focusing on one qualat at a time I thought a better approach would be to do the rough underpainting of each first, and add all the little details later on top. Which is why many things in here are just placeholders currently XD and I'm a bit concerned that Dara will stick out amongst the others, so I mayyyyy have to redo at least parts of her.

... maybe just look at their fantastic tails for now? Those look pretty good already 🤣👌

Speaking of placeholders, Chamon is still missing all of his colors and markings. Will add them once I'm happy with his base :D

Also Ealann's coat is pretty much inspired by Sammy. And I love his kinda grumpy expression lol. I'll have to figure out if he has back markings or not... it's not visible in his ref and I never even once drew him again after that ahahaha.

Aaaand more progress. Yea I did spend a couple of hours today, cough cough. A normal amount (yeah sure). I probably should do something else this evening ^^;

Started working on the qualats so I can figure out the exact placement of the background shadows later. I want this to be pretty detailed so the whole thing is going to take a gooooood while to get completed. This is just the very start of the underpainting.