Whoa happy Ilesska picture? Talk about an abrupt change of pace.

Well.. figured that doing a happy picture might help reverse my mood, and it seemed fitting for an avatar, so this is what happened. We are hardly out of the woods yet, but an important milestone was reached, and life won't be abruptly crashing and burning. There may be more depressing pictures in the future though.

We experimented a lot with using larger brushes sizes after doing the initial lineart, and then some emphasis shading to help it show up when downscaled. So despite going out on a limb and trying new techniques, i think it came out nicely..