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Welp, guess who spent all too long on this trying to absolutely blow my decade of art challenge out of the park? Holy, do I love the results though.
The Decade of Art collage is in a separate post here, because I don’t want to muddle this one’s formatting.
I spent ages in Blender playing with smoke simulations to make my own reference, and then I proceeded to use exactly none of it and do my own thing. At least I know how smoke sims work now…
It might be ‘cheating’ that I did a bunch of Franken-modeling, smoke, and lighting to use as a reference before my pen even touched my tablet, but honestly the planning and setup of that blend file took like 12 hours, not including the time I’ve spent modeling refs of her in the past, so I’d say I earned it, hah.
Here’s hoping the 2020s will be less of a hot mess! o/
2024 BlueBead thinks that last sentence aged horribly. At least this painting is aging well, however.