Backburner Art #9- Cave Story's Secret Santa
More practice with new shading color techniques, also glass of milk and a complete lack of gradients.
It's February, just in time for the Santa drawing.
I made a challenge for myself here: no gradient tool. I personally think I succeeded. It looks lively without the blending of colors and stuff.
This is Santa's own house (yes, the mimiga [rabbit creature] that is in the sofa is named Santa in the original game too). I wanted to draw him resting after a successful evening. I gave him that sofa, and I imagine he brought his table over. I don't know what exactly he's doing in that sofa though, as I didn't necessarily draw him resting, catching some Z's. He's got no book either. What is he doing?
The glass of milk was done in separate sets. The milk we see in the glass, the part showing through the side is layered underneath the color of the glass, the surface we see from the opening is layered over top of everything. The glass itself has a blend mode on it (forgot which one), with the opacity lowered. Then, I overlaid the shading on top of everything.
I was thinking of making the fire into a blend mode, but it honestly looks fine without it here. If there was more stuff behind the fire, then I could actually see a blend mode being used there. Those are better to me for that kind of stuff than just lowering the opacity, but we'll see how far it will be before I eat those words.