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God, there's... so many things I wanted to comment about it and now that it's done I just... can't believe that it's actually done because holy balls did this take forever. Back in late April - early May I did a sketch of these two (which you can see here: www.deviantart.com/madtaz64/ar… ). As I was doing this piece I kept imagining how pretty it would look digital. So I decided to go all out on this and use this as a testing grounds for various art techniques I wanted to learn how to do, mostly shading. I never imagined that it would take me almost 4 months. To be fair though I only really worked on it for an hour or so a day, sometimes even less, and sometimes I even skipped a couple days = ( I do know that I skipped a couple days when I was moving back at the end of June, don't really remember the rest of the days.
I spent the first chunk of time lining all the characters, making sure they looked like their hand drawn counterparts, then afterwards the background, which I had to sketch beforehand because I had no reference to work off of. The fun part here was all the vegetables in the background, which I had to duplicate over and over and scale them juuuuuust right so the perspective wouldn't be off.
The coloring was pretty easy from what I remember, but I remember stalling a lot and working on very little at a time to put off learning shading because I KNEW it would take me forever to figure out how to learn to shade. In all my years of artwork shading is the one thing I've almost never done but always wanted to do, so it was a very new and challenging experience to me. It took FOREVER but I'm really happy with how it came out.
After everything was shaded and colored it still looked a bit too colorful imo which worried me, since it's a nighttime scenario and all. Luckily my friend taught me a good method to make everything look night-timey in SAI. All you have to do is make a new layer, shade it wih the color of the night sky, set the mode to "multiply", then lower the opacity. Then presto!!!!!!!
All and all though I'm pretty damn happy with how this came out, the Harvest Moon series is one of the most memorable series in my childhood, Harvest Moon 64 and Friends of Mineral Town especially. They just felt so cozy and chill to play, I haven't played a game in the series since Harvest Moon DS because of how time consuming the games were but I really need to get back into the games someday, I heard A New Beginning was really good.
Also Karen was and probably always will be top girl #TeamKaren