Love in a Bottle Parents CGs Process (Patreon)

It's time for more LiaB CG processes! If you haven't seen the previous one, here's a look at the process for one of Ankora & Sandy's CGs.

Next up, we've got kind of an unusual CG. Meet Ankora's birth mom, Quomi… circa a few hundred years ago and prior to like 10 pregnancies or so. I had the idea that Ankora's mom was once a plucky young beauty, functionally a PC98 bishoujo eroge protagonist if we were to break the fourth wall. Once I had that thought, I knew I wanted to have a flashback CG of her done in pixel art.

I may have broken some technical rules for PC98 art. I think maybe I used more colors than it would have been able to handle on a single screen, or whatever. I'm sure a PC98 fanatic will know immediately how many cardinal sins I've committed. But I've got too much work to do to sweat the small stuff, and this CG is only going to show up in passing, so we march forward.

Here's a little zoom crop preview of the final pixel art. I used Aseprite to do it.

And of course, I simply have to show Ankora's moms in their older age, too. Again, they don't actually show up to visit Ankora in the Austera dome or anything like that, so she only communicates with them through text messaging. This CG is a photo Quomi sends to their group chat while reminiscing on the past, as empty nesting parents are oft wont to do.

Do you like the way that half the time my "sketches" for hands are just big old "figure it out later, 5head" circles?

The process for this one was pretty straightforward. I keep the coloring for LiaB CGs pretty simple, for my own sanity. Sketch > lines > flat local colors > multiply shading layer(s) > highlights > color tinting, is the general flow.