I decided to try something a little different this time. I wanted to draw OMC, so I started looking for some reference photos. I found this one online, and used it to get the pose of Consequences and the general shape and composition of the background. This is actually my first time trying digital painting (if you can even call this a painting), and in fact, my first time painting at all, really. I didn't know what to do, so I looked up a tutorial for digital painting and learned to use the polygonal selection tool to make geometric shapes. From there, I was shading it by hand. It took me quite a while to get everything working.

I'm happy with how the water came out, and the grass is okay as well. Consequences himself looks nice, but the anatomy is strange in some places, like his left arm. I couldn't see the left arm on the reference, so I just had to wing it, so it looks weird. The trees are my main issue with it; I had no idea what I was doing. Overall though, I think the colors ended up really nice. The red lake is such a unique and striking location with the black and red contrast, and I always love seeing "realistic" interpretations of it. That being said, it took me a bit to get the colors to a place I was satisfied with. I played around with nearly every single filter on Krita, and used color balancing and burning to get what I wanted. I used the posterize filter, again, and as usual I'm pleased with the result. The only "issue" with it is that it makes the sky look red rather than black, but I can live with that.

If I were to make this piece again, I'd probably just learn how to paint trees, as well as maybe putting more effort into some places of OMC's anatomy. So, aside from a few nitpicks, I'm pretty proud of this piece and think it's a pretty good first attempt at digital painting. I'm looking forward to learning more about painting techniques and expanding my artistic capabilities.

This drawing took around 2 hours 40 minutes, although with the time spent applying effects and filters, it's probably a little over 3 hours.