duckydraws

Peek

Added 2025-11-28 22:00:49 +0000 UTC

You may have noticed that I preface all my file names with a year and month, followed by some pseudo descriptive labels, like 202401_gote.jpg... What the date actually tells is when the sketch was originally saved, not when it was finished and uploaded.

This one, for whatever reason, just remained "Illustration53", but I did manage to find the year: 2019. So at least five or six years old.

I recall trying to complete this once before, with hairline brushes, and that didn't really go anywhere.

A month back I decided to redo the outlines, but I was still unsure about how I would approach the colors. I had been trying some new things, with pretty mid success, so it had to wait a bit longer.

So last week I got an idea to take my trusty inking brush, which I've been using for a few years, and add some color blending properties to it. I think the familiarity of the brush made it easy to wrap my head around it.

So I started with a black and white palette, like I've seen some people work with. I haven't tried working that way because - I don't know - stubbornness? But bit by bit it started taking shape, and here it is. Still feel like I rushed some areas, but it was time to let this one go out from the doodle pile.