When you heard about the sightings ... (Patreon)

... of a "fairy" in the woods, you kindly offered to look into it. You have to admit, you weren't expecting something quite so big.

Do you wanna my process for something like this? Lemme show you! Even though this doesn't have a whole lot of rendering, I still went through a few iterations.

Iteration 01. After this, I copied the layer, and continued working on the copy. This was actually originally gonna be a normal-sized guy just covered in leaves, but at the last second I thought "what if a giant head" and decided that that was scarier.

Iteration 02. Aside form the lighting changes (which a hue/saturation/brightness adjustment layer did most of the work on), I decided to make the pupils big instead of small. You know how when a cat is about to pounce, its pupils get really big?

Iteration 03, the final that you see up top. A little bit more leaves. Some darker areas (shadows right under trees), some lighter areas (additional yellow highlights on eyes). The last 10%. At this stage I'm always nervous that I'm gonna ruin it somehow, but like, balls to it. It's my drawing, I'll ruin it all I want lmao