I dunno, this just sort of happened this morning. It’s a human version of that dragon lady I like to draw myself as. Which is distinctly not quite the same thing as a self-portrait.
Mostly this ended up being more experimentation with faux airbrush techniques. I’ve been thinking about those a lot lately what with deciding that’s how Absinthe should look. Blurred shapes, the occasional gradient, and a mezzotinted rectangle over the background, but not the foreground. Also a few shapes with the ‘grain’ effect applied, one of which is an opacity mask to fade out the foot.
About a half hour, not including the time lost when Illustrator crashed and kindasorta managed to save some work, that I had to cut and paste back into the original document because I have a thing about retaining file creation dates that I should really let go of. It’s really been unstable lately and that’s kinda maddening.