November wallpaper 1 (Patreon)

I've been watching and loving the Bloom Into You anime (which I highly recommend! the manga is hands down my favourite highschool yuri romance) and I've been in awe of how beautiful the backgrounds are so I wanted to try something with lots and lots of trees.

The original plan was to have Austen and Sunati together, but as I worked on this the colouring got more and more melancholy and eventually I painted in Austen on her own (possibly missing Sunati who is in space?)

This didn't end up much like the Bloom Into You backgrounds, but it was still very satisfying to do proper painting for once. I've gotten used to doing lined backgrounds with Aerial Magic, so this was both refreshing and really tricky. I probably need to think more about the structure of tree canopies! Also, I'm not sure where the balance is between 'not enough detail' and 'whoops I overworked this' but I'm sure with practice I'll figure it out one day ^^;

There will be another wallpaper this month, to make up for September. Probably something wintery, probably with Amal because he likes snow :)

Also - Patreon has declared today as #thankyoupatrons day. And honestly this kind of feels like free marketing for them (am I being too cynical?) but I still do want to say 'thank you' to you all, because I'm not sure I say this often enough.

So thank you for supporting me, and chatting with me, and giving me feedback, and saying the nicest things, and being here. You all help me keep going, and I'm so honoured to know that you think the stories I tell are worth telling.

Thank you very, very much <3