Thank You For Freeing Me! (Hi Res)

This is the hi res (~3600 px)!

A painting for Myr! Myr is thankful for being freed, even though he isn't from this world... Though he did hear they have quite good cuisine to try, and well, he's already here, so...

This one got away from me a bit, I won't lie. I struggled quite a bit last month. But it's in the past, and that means it's a new year, and can try and do better this year. So I finished it last night, and am gonna use it as a sort of... Starting point for this year. I want to do more -- texturing and blending, or study, or what-have-you. I don't want to upload at the glacial speed I feel I do. So that means things might get a bit messier for a small period of time. Just trying to find that motivation again, find out what I like doing and how to do it when it comes to art.

But that's not relevant here. Big dragon! That's probably more interesting. Happy New Year to ya'll -- hopefully 2022 will be more kind to us all than the past two have been. I hope you all enjoy this piece. And a big, big thank you to Myr for being both so patient with me, and letting me work with him once again!! <3

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Wow. Screw December, man. In fact, screw that entire year.

I don't really know what to say. That year got away from me. I'm so sorry the posts haven't been the most frequent. I know I say that it's just meant to be a tip jar more than anything else, but it still feels like I'm taking advantage of people. I really want to do better this year in 2022. I don't know how well that will go, and I don't want to make more promises I fear I'll not reach, but I want to do better.

I'm interested, though -- does it bother you, that this Patreon is more a tip jar with the slight bonus of high-res images? I won't lie, I've considered just quietly shutting it down since I am not the most active, nor do I have cool rewards like others do. Should I put WIPs here more? Or would that spam the feed? I would offer my PSD/RIFFs but I work on one layer most of the time and flatten it a lot, so I don't think that's valuable to anyone. Sketch streams are something I want to do again -- does the sound of an extra "ticket" into how I do my streams sound interesting? Discord, even though I'm rather shy...? I don't know. Even these extra descriptions feel hollow for the support you all give me.

Just kind of feel like I need to do... -something- more. Maybe it's just the New Year vibes.

I do like this piece. I just wish I didn't take so long on it. Really need to stop nitpicking and trying to blend everything so nice and smoothly. It's a proud note to end 2021 on, but I can't help but feel a bit of shame with it as well, if that makes sense. I dunno. Am I rambling? Of that, I'm sure.

I will try to do better this year. I can promise to at least try. Thank you for being with me still. I truly do appreciate it, from the bottom of my heart. <3