#Yes this is the drawing whose references inspired my infamous 'scythe wielders' post.

[felis77]

I've been debating whether to show this for a while, but I can no longer resist. Here's a behind-the-scenes screencap of the sketch of Outlander, which is probably the most elaborate sketch I've ever drawn of one subject. Things of note:

The color palette was chosen in advance, got changed a bit during coloring.

Detail sketches are rough but otherwise very close to the final lineart. The pole (handle?) of the scythe is shittier than the other sketches and made me miss the curve tool from MS Paint.

Layers are named, but not by my usual naming convention of "sketchDetail." This is because trying to draw this pose was breaking me mentally. I don't know if there was ever a "sketchB."

Layers are distinguished by their own "pure" color (each value either 255 or 0).

There're a few layers that desaturate the image so that the pure colors wouldn't sear my eyeballs any further than they already had.

Stylization practice doodles on the left side of the screen.

Their facial expression, 😄, is different than the final product because I couldn't get the first idea to look right.

This is a time capsule of my progress because FireAlpaca refused to save this file after a certain point, so I had to continue after saving it as a different file.

"customer service face"

I originally just wanted to show the sketch's face, but now's a great time to talk about my art process since I just posted a year review!