this was a very peaceful and meditative commission to work on! I made a gif of the process screenshots I took-
I listened to a lot of year of the griffin by diana wynne jones while I worked on this, which was great like all of her books I've read so far, though I think I prefer the book that came before it, dark lord of derkholm- partially because the multi-species family (human wizard parents with human kids and griffin kids) was so fun and sweet and inspired me to make hess and aery!