I may as well make myself useful and knock in some of the background for this YCH. Normally I like to work from the characters out but I kinda can't do that until the auction's over and I have model sheets in hand. So, I swipe some cloud styles from another piece and start modifying them to fit the overall palette I want. Took me about an hour, including some fucking around. It's really great to be able to swash in a loose line that defines where Illustrator will then do a bunch of fiddly, fluffy bullshit for me!

I've really been *looking* at clouds lately, and thinking about how to properly render them. There's a lot of gorgeous clouds down here in the tropics.

Normally I just have one reference layer, with all the ref arranged off the side of the canvas.

This... this seems to require some different strategies.

hahaha whoops I just realized this dude was supposed to be the servant with the drinks tray, not the Quing/Keen! Oh well, I got his colors set up last night and only blew like 15min doodling in his basic shapes, mistakes happen.

Lesson: double-check this kinda shit I guess? It clearly says "servant" in the little chart I'm making off on the side. Okay I think the lesson is that I should have made this little set of layers BEFORE starting to draw anyone.

Time to get to drawing I guess.

anthracite ponders another lesson she has learnt from doing this big YCH 

Hmmm! I have let this percolate in the back of my mind while puttering around the Internet, and I came to another realization:

Lesson: If there is a character who is a focal point in a large group like this, consider ensuring that they are there from the start - just use one of my own characters, or a friends', and set a starting bid for it sufficiently high to more than cover the time I spent drawing them in the center of the image.

This ensures that I can follow my general artistic habits of "start with the most important part of the drawing, get that working solidly, then make sure everything else flows properly into or around it".

(You can go the other way if you like, focus on nailing the overall composition first and adding ever-finer details. If you work in traditional media I feel there's strong pressure from physical constraints to do this as you can't just casually resize your art and/or canvas halfway through a piece like I can in Illustrator. Your tools shape your art and your process, to a degree.)

anthracite may also be baked as fuck right now 

if i hadn't lost my copies of all the "life in hell" books in katrina i am pretty sure there would be a photograph here from "art is hell" of a scruffy cartoon rabbit saying something like "the artist's eternal question: are drugs a recreational purchase, or a business expense?"

in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

*carefully draws a butt*

*carefully wraps it in tight fabric and adds sparkles*

*zooms out*

fuck now I'm horny for this butt and I am sitting in a very public place near a dude talking about how many baptisms he performed this past year, oh if only he knew what demon-haunted idolatry was going on next to him

in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

I spent a while this morning getting a couple more of the figures in here. With the Powerful Butt safely out of view.

Also there is an eleventh figure now :)

in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

maybe I'm gonna need a bigger platter for all these bottles

or an assistant

in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

It sure was hard to get myself going on this again after worrying that I lost some of my work this morning.

But luckily I slipped my own fursona into the background for laughs. Drawing Peganthyrus is pretty much always a free action when it comes to issues of motivation.

in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

Still working on this. If I can get a decent chunk of work out of myself today then I think I can probably have all the figures in there to some degree before bedtime, and that would be pretty nice.

Then I get to do some recomposition that this direly needs, and also some contrast fixes that it also direly needs. And do some clothes. Then I can call it done.

re: in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

@anthracite Yay, I'm long! :D

And stacked! :D :D

re: in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

@Soreth

Possibly a bit more stacked by the time I'm done, if the mood strikes me!

re: in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

@anthracite Oh no. Not thaaaaaat. Oh how aaaaaaawful that would be~

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re: in which I continue to toot WIPs of this big YCH, cw: cartoon butts and titties 

@Soreth

I am sure everyone involved would absolutely hate there being a Big Titty Edit of the final piece. Just terrible. Nobody wants that ever. Especially me.

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