Blind Date (Patreon)

This snake was not expecting to take Jenny home, but they're making the most of it.

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Felt like drawing this last night before bed. Spent another 40 minutes on it this morning.

SO like hey, i have a conundrum.

My sketches aren't sketches anymore.

This is the real sketch. It took 20 minutes, and has all the important info in it needed to make a full finished picture. it's like 170x120 pixels. Going from there to what you see above took 3 hours. The shading itself took 1 hour.

Without any shading, it looks like this. This was the 2 hour mark.

Which, if viewed in full looks nice enough, but the thumbnail version of it is hard to make out and thus not something people will click on.

My sketches for patreon were originally intended to be WIPS that were fun to look at, but left you wanting to see them 'finished', so that they could be done in polls. They used to look like this

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22976678

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19376848

https://www.patreon.com/posts/23011505

https://www.patreon.com/posts/26321271

However, because the only way the sketches get finished is winning a Monthly sketch poll, or being sponsored, the sketches vastly outnumber the finished pieces. As time has gone on, i've been spending more and more time rendering these sketches to make them look nicer, to make them functional as final products? But it takes way too long.

So like, TL;DR, i don't know what to do about it, and i'd like to hear your opinions on the matter.

I feel my actual sketches aren't fancy looking enough for people to care about them, and the things i'm calling sketches now are simply taking too long.