#i swear i'll probably upload the speedpaint eventually

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"Old Friends; Moon & Rain"

"Old friends… We meet, yet again." …

38+ hours, 39,000 actions, and 915 layers later…. "Old Friends; Rain & Moon" are complete!

If I could give one theme to this drawing, it would be "too much". I got so obsessed with making it realistic, with improving, to the point there was too much of everything. Too much detail, too much shading, too many hairstrands, too many leaves, too much rain.

Admittedly, for a long time I lost the simplicity in my art - I got stuck again in losing my direction I was heading in.

It took a lot of very long, tear-filled and frustrating conversations and observing my art to realize my mistake (being "too much"). And those conversations happened every. single. time. with each of those things I listed.

Hence the 38 hours and 2 months this took.

I plan on posting the speedpaint of this, it's recorded and I'm working on editing it, it's just.. a lot, too lol. I'll update once it's done tho!

Time taken: 38+ hours

Layers: 915

Actions: 39,000 -tysm <3