Jayla (hi-res) (Patreon)

Commish for Jrider of his elf girl Jayla. You might remember she was in a piece with Chinatsu last time!

Jrider asked me what are some ideas I'd like to draw that I haven't had a chance to yet, and I immediately thought of some stretching poses like this. These tend to be somewhat common in gravure poolside scenes, and they can look really cool. I pulled up some of those refs as inspiration and went to town. >:3

I pretty much never do this, but this time I decided to do some loose strands in a separate layer from where the hair is. As you can see in the WIPs, initially it was just the big clump, but it felt like it was missing a bit of that hair splintering. I tried doing some loose strands on a whim and they worked super well, so I cleaned them up and there we go. I should try to keep this in my toolkit and bust it more often.

Enjoy. ❤