Fern - Octorber 2025's Reward (Patreon)
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In the end... I can't bring myself to lower the quality of the illustration. After I finished the character, I really really wanted to see how Fern looks with a proper background so I spent half a day making the background. It works in the end and it works too well. From this piece, I think I can manage to create a simple background but still give the character all the attention. This is new because I rarely succeed with this idea before. Maybe trying to focus on the atmosphere really makes the change. I need to research this stuff more, pretty interesting.
Moreover, I start something really different when making color on this pic. I used patterns and cut part of the skin from real photos, making it suitable with the color of artwork and paint over it to make skin look a bit more real. This is a very old technique but I have never tried it before because It need some skill to make everything work. The result is pretty good but I don't know if you guys will accept it or not. Well, with just cover artwork like this is hard to imagine. You will know it when I finish the set and post the reward preview.
It's nearly done. I don't mean to make a long set with this anyway.
Looks like I kept the promise to make it within 7 days like I said haha.
I will be right back.
- Hanada Yanochi