[2022]

Hohh,, I cannot even begin to tell anyone just how I did this. Had the energy for this. I fell in love with the initial pencils enough that I had to drag my full-blown shading out of retirement and take it for a spin, and I'm still in awe with the results!

I experimented too, mainly with the eyes and the star! They don't call her Windstar for nothing, yeah~?

The Eyes I used to shade had a gradient going down- these on the otherhand? They have a gradient going in from a darker base color and faint strokes of iris detail as well.. and it works better than whatever I was doing prior. So I for sure will be adapting to that method for future shaded works.

The Star. Boy oh boy. That thing hated me. A lot. It would show up more blue if it had a backdrop, especially a dark one... but transparency? Nope. Less blue, which wasn't at all what I intended. After enough hours of dinking around with it I left it in a "satisfactory" state and decided that was as blue as it wanted to get, haha!..

One of these days little effects (no less Lunarien ones, which demand color accuracy) will be under my belt, So I just have to keep at it until then!

Ally belongs to me