"Moon Dancer" Painting
Added 2025-01-14 23:24:43 +0000 UTCI know some readers only check out the finished page via the early access posts, but I always encourage readers to also view the finished page on the DZO website, since I always try to include some semi-relevant supplemental entry under each page.
Chapter 22, Page 39 has an entry about a painter who experimented with pleasure drugs. Above is the painting featured in the entry. Funny enough, I thought including this would be a fun (and somewhat "easy") endeavor -- well, it was definitely fun, but easy it was not. Getting a fake watercolor effect to actually look good is not as simple as one might think. There are tons of filters, effects, etc, but many look pretty phony, while some look downright terrible.
Getting this to look the way I envisioned almost took as long as the DZO page itself! I always wonder how many people actually read the supplemental entries on the DZO site, but I just couldn't settle for "eh, it's good enough", so it ended up being quite an undertaking.
Many thanks to artist Tenza for putting up with me as we got this one "just right".
