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A new phone means a new background! I tried to bite my friend Matt Harpold’s style, since he’s done some very nice drawings of this character, but I ended up pretty much doing my usual thing, especially on the figure.

Three hours, Illustrator.

I’ve been watching some digital painting technique videos lately, and I think some of that creeped into how I did the figure. Lots of shading going on, and somewhat more subtle detail going on than normal. I piled up a lot of transparent shapes and some distorted fills while doing this; near the end I found myself really, really, really wishing Illustrator had the “freeze layer” functionality of the late, lamented Expression. Again. Like I do every damn time I do this kind of thing. Time to make a feature request, I guess. I’m sure it’ll be ignored like all the other times I’ve made it.

edit: Hmm. I just fucked around and it looks like I can kindasorta freeze a layer by applying a rasterize effect. Maybe. I’m not entirely sure. I’ll have to remember to remove it before exporting, though; this is something I only want to see happening as I edit, not when I export final art.