Garden Gal (Patreon)

FELLAS, when I tell you I got severely stunlocked by this illustration I really do be meaning it. I don't have WIPs or a timelapse recording or even a known amount of hours I've spent working on this because I went into this with zero intention of turning it into anything presentable. But once I started, my dirty lil' drawing hand couldn't stop until I painted over the whole damn thing.

This started as a lil' AI image that I had generated while messing around with SDXL.

 The overall vibe was cute, but as with all AI images the details turn into a goofy nonsensical mess the moment you stop squinting your eyes. So I basically painted everything over. I wanted to keep as much of the traditional-oil-painting style as I could, but as you know I'm normally all about making things as S M O O T H and B L E N D E D as possible, so I think I only somewhat succeeded on that front. Still though, I like the end result a lot.

There's something oddly therapeutic about taking AI images and painting over them. I can't imagine the feeling being too far off from how it feels to take an old beat-up car that you know has potential and fix it up into something nice.

And no I do not want to talk about how long it took me to paint all them goddamn flowers. I didn't even go that hard on the detailing and they still took me forever