Illustration #65 (Patreon)

Hey everyone! Here's a new illustration for you! I've been making a list of things that make me happy. Turns out it's a useful thing to keep around when thinking up ideas for new drawings! And water nymphs are on that list, so I was happy to get to draw them again. It's been too long since last time. I might do more sketches of them for one of the next polls. We'll see. :)

As usual, you can expect to get the reward pack for this illustration in about a week, on the 7th.

I was about a week behind schedule when I started working on this earlier this month, so I'm relieved to have been able to catch up. And it was in part because of an adjustment I made to my workflow. In the work-in-progress images and time lapse video many of you will be getting you'll notice I did a lot of work in just values before I started adding colors. It's a bit easier for me to wrap my head around how to describe forms when colors aren't a part of the equation yet, if that makes sense. I have tried that workflow in the past too, but back then I never quite found a way to add colors that late in the process without it feeling cumbersome and fiddly, but this time it went very smoothly! The colors and lighting fell into place pretty easily, so I spent less time adjusting and repainting stuff towards the end of the process. It all felt much more straight forward than it usually does for me. So I hope to continue that through the next illustrations. :)

Thank you for supporting me this month! I hope you're all having a wonderful Halloween!