A Slacker's Punishment (Patreon)

Bluesky/PixivLet's hope Lysithea knows exactly what she's doing with that new magic...===============================================================The Creator's Mindset:- For how seemingly simple this picture may appear, there's a few things worth mentioning that made it take a while.• The requester wanted Hilda to be transparent, meaning turning every individual mesh's alpha down. Not particularly hard, but that kind of thing always take a while, especially if a character's design has lots of accessories.• In the first place, it took me a while to figure out what to do with Hilda that could fit in with the squished between glass theme.• Lysithea's magic was something I custom made, cut out, and wrapped manually.• The background is simple, but custom. The only mesh I needed to borrow was the tower.• A lot of Photoshop work was needed to clean this up, particularly for the glass frame and Lysithea's magic.• The final product is actually two renders mixed together, because the denoiser for the first render tried fixing Lysithea's eyes when it shouldn't have.  The second render was used solely to fix her eyes.===============================================================Trivia and Extra Tidbits:1. Friends:- The requester, gigaderpbreak, wanted a rather goofy looking Hilda in poster format with transparency and even more specifically, a silly grimace, crossed eyes, plus limbs splayed in different directions.2. In Universe:- The idea for this picture stems from the idea that Hilda often tries to pass off her work on others when possible while Lysithea, on the other hand, works exceptionally hard to improve herself every day. It wouldn't surprise me if Lysithea would try to get some use out of Hilda if all she was going to do was slack off in the first place.- The background meant to represent a specific area of Garreg Mach around the stables.===============================================================Credits:- Characters: Hilda Valentine Goneril and Lysithea von Ordelia (Fire Emblem: Three Houses).