Weekly 19

I've no finished pieces to offer this week unfortunately, so i hope to make do with some talking and work in process pictures <:

Since i'm slowly getting back into the swing of things, i figured i'd take one or two commissions with a quicker turnaround before i officially open just incase i end up being overwhelmed and cannot finish them. This piece was one of them that i hoped to finish this week, though it has been a bit slow going at the fault of no one in particular. Life happens!

As a tier 3 commission, which is shaded and lit but not painted, the process starts with the idea ofcourse, and some thumbnails! Ideally, i try to provide 3 thumbnails depending on how specific the idea is, one where i try to follow the prompt the best i can, one that's a little bit off and one that i think is just as cool. This time the initial request i did was fairly vague, and Galelai liked my first thumbnail enough to request that i just do an alt version which is quick and fair enough! Though we did decide to see if i could come up with anything more interesting and do the other 2 thumbnails just to make the decision harder >:) The 4th one is a very quick variation on the 3rd, just with the wings down because they liked the suspension.

At this point i've done maybe 20mins of work, not counting feedback.

Surprise! The 1st one was the winner afterall, though something wasn't quite right... Which is more than fair! I rather change things early on <: They didn't like the wing being squished so much, easy enough, and also wanted something a bit more intimate with the tentacles supporting the head and a more pleased expression. The tail was also a point of confusion, so i changed that and lowered the wing into a more relaxed position in the spirit of the request. That said, i was not a fan of how the upside down head changed the composition of the piece, which we agreed on and back to the first version it went, but now with a smile!

Happy with the piece this far, it was onto a refined sketch, with a bit less face fondling to reveal the beautiful smile :) Something however was still not quite right regarding the wings, so there was some time spent trying to figure out what wasn't sitting well with them. Admittedly most of which was just me being confused, but it came down to two choices in the end after i sent a screenshot in which i drew the bit that was hanging outside of the canvas.

In the end, as it turns out they just wanted more wing instead of the more intimate closeup version. But well, can you really blame them?

And this, is where we are at right now, still pending changes but thankfully some little bird spoiled that this lady might want to feel like a princess in a fancy castle with marble and luxury so i didn't have to think too hard on the background >:)

The other project of the week was a character design, which i won't detail because it's mostly the choices of personal preference, and i've already talked more than enough i think <3

Maybe it's not as exciting as just seeing full pieces falling out of the blue like that, but alas, sometimes things just take time. I hope that this was at least somewhat entertaining and that you all had an excellent day <3