Bones & Bath process gif (Patreon)

I originally planned this as a day scene with dappled light, but having to do deep shadows and bright highlights for 4-5 different materials was feeling very challenging given the 16 pallet rule i had given myself, so after playing with the pallet a bunch a night scene felt like a better fit. 

After that, a friend pointed out that the throne was boring, and after removing it sort of naturally turned into the scene it did!

Oh, and yeah I work on these as a single piece, but i constantly check the composition of each half by temporarily cropping the image as I know it's going to be posted as two. Trying to make the composition work on both versions is challenging but fun!