When a Doodle Becomes a Project (Patreon)

I'm working on a birthday gift for Daniel/Beilin. This is his au ra, Alun, who is just a great character. He's been a good friend and a lot of help getting established in FFXIV, so I wanted to do something nice for him since his birthday last year took such a hit with COVID. Probably won't get done in time for his actual birthday, which is in like, a day LOL but hey, starting it early and finishing it late evens out, right? 

Anyway, I whipped up the doodle (second image) as a warmup sketch the other day, but it ended up being such a good base, I decided just to transfer it to a higher resolution canvas and build and tweak from there. It;s going to b e a long work in progress, and something I'm using to practice and play with some different techniques digitally. But I'm really liking how she's turning out so far.