Backburner Art #12f- Rain World: The Watcher (Rivulet)

This one took a bit.

The arms of Moon & Pebble's puppets are glowing cyan dots, showing that they are in a communication with each other. The split-screen also helps signify that they're on some sort of call. Moon is just happy to be in touch with Pebbles again, while Pebbles is crying from relief that he has someone to talk to again. Pebbles has his music pearl playing music, while Rivulet is floating around Moon's chamber.

I was having trouble with the lighting for Pebble's side at first, but thankfully I figured it out. I make the Shading layer that I use a "Hard Light" blend mode, but when I was using the original colors I had picked for the lighting, the highlights that were on him were a darker value than the base colors. I fixed it, thankfully, by realizing that the colors I was using weren't actually contributing to lighting the scene.

I really like how Pebble's side looks, it has a dark and moody feel to it, which it does have in the game too. I wanted to get some of the Rot in there, but realized that there wasn't any close to him, so I didn't. The effect around his pearl I did by using the Radial gradient twice: one with an alternating pattern, which was then alpha-locked over a regular one, so that it faded out.

In Krita, there's a multi-brush tool. It essentially does all that the mirror tools do, and more. It's got more customization, more angles, allows more ways of mirroring, and all that jazz. That's how I did the split-screen here. Sure, a diagonal one would work just fine, but I wanted to have the jaggedness. However, it's a little bit shaky. That's the one sad part about using the multi-brush tool: you can't use the line tool with it, so if you aren't that good at drawing straight lines, it's gonna look shaky.