Since ALL my entries were of Carbuncles (in case you wanna look for my other two entries, I made it into Handcrafted and Altered Screenshot, the name's "Moony"), since I adored it from the first moment I saw it in-game and always enjoy having it alongside me, I knew I gotta have a Carbuncle entry (which turned into four entries lmao)

I expected to need multiple sketches, but I made this and immediately went "yeap, I love this, I want this":

After doing some basic research on how stained glass doors are usually colored

I made a rough color template

And from there a more precise one

I drew the lineart in Clip Studio, then measured my door, used a tool called PosteRazor (which lets you make posters out of Din A4 pages) to cut the lineart into Din A4 sized pieces....and then printed 24 pages :'D

Put all of them into foil, then taped them into shape so I could be sure it would fit

And then all that was left was painting the thing with Window Color (and yes, the edges were a BITCH to unstick, and I would do some things differently now in hindsight)

I worked in segments, cause I live alone and that window is almost as tall as me so I would otherwise be guaranteed to end up with a mess that would stick to anything BUT the door

If you look reaaaaaally closely, then you can actually see where the edges of the foils/pages were, cause it's where the paint had stretched slightly, causing a slight light-dark effect, or sometimes a slight fold

Either way, those deciding which entries should get voted on either disagreed on the category (illustrated, but the definition on their website said "digital or traditional illustration", and it IS an illustration! It's not handcrafted in the "make a photo from three sides" way, like... should I have made a photo of the side where you see the lock of the door and nothing of the art? :'D

Whatever, I am complaining, but perhaps the other art was simply more what those who made the decision were looking for. I don't begrudge the other artists, and at the end of the day I now have this beautiful door regardless of the contest's results.

In other news: Damn had I struggled with getting a decent image of it lmao I took pictures from and into the living room, I tried with light on or off, at day and night, with and without flash. Who'd have thought that taking a photo of a window would be such a challenge lmao