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[full res and commentary] Reduction in Force (Feb 20, 2022)

Added 2022-02-21 05:04:22 +0000 UTC

The full res image for "Reduction in Force"!

PSD file [here], Timelapse [here]

Meant to be a continuation of Blythe's previous appearance in the "Performance Review Season" comic. Skye and crew are still around, don't worry. A bunch of Salarymen weren't so lucky, though.

After a break with the Airfrye with Skye pic and the Valentine's Day comic, I did yet another "strong lighting of subject in front of dark background" pic, which is for better or worse becoming one of my Artist Trademarks. The new challenge for this pic was that it is a rare full body shot with an actual setting for the background, which allowed me to show off Blythe's combat boots (which were only seen once before, a long long time ago), as well as advance the lore a tiny bit. I'm probably going to be doing more Blythe focused pics and comics in the coming months, to try and get my followers more familiar with the character. Which may or may not be related to some future projects currently in progress.

I've been able to maintain a one-painting-per-week schedule, which I think is pretty good all things considered, but I can really only work on these on the weekend, which kinda bums me out a bit because painting's been really fun lately and I wish I could get more practice in. I do think I've come a long way since when I started posting my pixelart online back in mid 2018, when it took me a week to make a simple lowres pixelart portrait lol

Anyway, thanks for all your support, as always!