Thundarican Explorers

Hard to believe that this was thumbnailed way back in February! Finally though, it’s done! Huzzah!

Hours: Oh man, I really don’t know. At least ten, probably more like twenty. This one was a quickie compared to the last one!

Layer Count: 65, in five groups with five layers ungrouped. (Quite small compared to other pictures!)

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Finally done! It was fun doing a mainly monochromatic colour palette, though this is in fact a blue-and-orange complimentary palette - my favourite kind! If you pay attention, you’ll see that most of my illustrations are either blue-and-orange or red-and-green. I’m not sure if I have ever done a yellow-and-purple palette - it’s not a palette I like much, though I think these colours are fine and dandy apart. Purple is one of my favourite colours - however my favourite use in it for art is as a shading colour. I didn’t use any here - my shading colour today was a very dark tealy blue. My shading colour choice changes with the composition.

I did all the shading by hand on this one, instead of using the magic wand tool like I usually do. I believe it left a more painterly, hand done touch. (Maybe.) At least it somewhat compensates for the digital character ink that I did on this. (Ew! I must look at this to remind myself how much I hate digital inking before I try it again next time. Sure it turned out nice, but EW. Hours and hours of ARRRRGH. XD)

Special thanks to for her helpful critique!

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