Illustration #83 (Patreon)

Hey everyone, I hope you've had a great month! I finally got around to painting this illustration! I don't paint Luke and Maya together in a scene very often, so this was fun. The sketch for this one was so old that I even had to repaint the thumbnail sketch so the process for it wouldn't be so outdated, haha. I painted the original sketch back in 2017, and my sketching process has fortunately gotten much more organized and (hopefully) easier to understand since then. I hope you like how the painting turned out! The rewards for this one will be sent out on June 7.

Last month I mentioned that the painting process for that month's illustration felt very comfortable, and I hoped it would carry through to this month's illustration, and it did! Sort of! This one has some challenges, but overall I'm happy with how it went. For a long time I've wanted to cut down on the number of hours I spend on an illustration. A couple of years ago I'd regularly be at around 70-80 hours per illustration, but recently I've been down to around 50, which is much closer to where I wanna be. Ideally I think I wanna be under 40, but I also want to put in as much effort as I can into making good illustration. I'm getting closer to finding a balance there that I'm comfortable with.

Anyway, thank you very much for supporting my work this month. I look forward to making more paintings for you!