Commission for  Renzey, from The Great List!

The last painting was heavy on the oranges, now this one is heavy on the greens. Once again, keeping everything distinctive was tricky. I did my best!

Also, painting this picture was kind of terrifying. I'm always a little uncomfortable when doing clean art because I feel like it's not my strong suit so I was already a little nervous, but that white background took things to a whole new level of discomfort. With a full background, you can usually get away with small blemishes and mistakes, there are ways to clean them up, but if I messed it up here there really wouldn't be anything I could do to fix it- one dropped paintbrush or errant flick of the bristles, one slightly paint-dirtied finger in the wrong place and the whole effect would be fucked up. I could cover it up a little with white paint but it would still be noticeable, it just wouldn't be the same. I did what I could to keep things covered to minimize risk, but you can't mask off everything all the time and masking tape has a bad habit of occasionally sucking paint in under it and making a big mess.

Needless to say, for being a medium some people use to relax, making this painting was a surprisingly white-knuckle affair.

Some credit belongs to  Wolf-nymph, as I was asked to make this picture in this kind of style and so far they're the only artist I've seen who does this kind of "island universe" picture regularly, so I pretty much directly referenced their art on how to go about it.