#technodjent

Well, above all, practice. The more you do something the better you’ll get at it.

But my default canvas size is 4000px X 3000px (or reversed if I want something more vertical). Then crop as needed if I don’t use the whole thing.

I also use a 2px brush size both for the pencil brush I mostly use and for the pen tool I use for actual clean line art.

Uh, that’s pretty much all I got. I don’t really know how to explain things especially the “dynamic” thing.

how very demure how very midful Orion with his MAJESTIC wing shaped false eyelashes (ofc he was raised by a QUEEN)

Bcus WHAT ARE THOOOSEEE

Absolutely outstanding work done in all departments, I exploded

Wanted to make this a tennocon submission but it's more than I can do with my skills so uh

Enjoy this thumbnail

And uh some progress bits before I gave up:

I somehow made sure it looks good at all the possible formats from wide horizontal to thin vertical

And yk, went all out on wings n shit

Also hehe orion ass

So uh, I finished my submission for TennoCon 2026 Community Showcase o7 Hope you like it

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Not gonna lie, this was one of the biggest works for me as of late if not ever. The very first draft was made right after the reveal of the "unannounced update". And animation was so good it got me so hyped for it even despite me being deeply drowning in depression.

I was really fond of the whole idea, tho it definitely intimidated me as hell, piece being rather huge for my usual way of work. I was heavily demotivated and mostly just exhausted by everything so I given up before even actually trying.

It took me a lot of courage and ofc even more strength to power through my own self-hate, in-family issues and ofc, weekly shellings of my city to even just try doing anything.

Last stretch was definitely the hardest of them all, with how all the bullshit possible decided to fall on my shoulders before I could finish. And yet, with some encouragement from others and just, yk, power of will I did finally manage to finish it. For which I am forever grateful.

And I managed to record a timelapse that thankfully didn't reveal all those hours upon hours of idling I went through to just do *anything*.