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Commissioned by  sultzz.wolf in Anthrocon 2018's Artist Alley, this pic sees Sultz and companion Misha attempting to recover from the embarrassment of having their pants yanked down in public by some ferret named Amira (she must work fast, like a drive-by pantsing or something). Not a moment after they reach some form of cover in the form of a nearby back alley, the two find themselves confronted by Sasha, who followed them in and is now performing a bewildering display, yanking down her tights, lifting her skirt and showing them her flower-and-butterfly print panties. I don't know what she thought this would do for their situation, in previous works on the commissioner's gallery she appears to be somewhat star-crossed with Sultz and has a rather ham-fisted manner of expressing it.

Technical:
This is a rare digital commission-at-con. I say rare because I don't advertise them on my table card--they're a significant time sink post-con and I tend to suspend work on everything else when I'm working on them (hence the two-month gap since my last upload). I did the initial pencils in the 'Alley in order to get the character design down, then set these aside for the actual working pencils, refining the posing and environment as I went. The initial layout had the characters much closer together, and I subsequently spaced them out, making the image into a 16x9 format.

The backdrop follows a less-structured approach so far as coloring goes, rather than inking and flood-filling the backdrop like the foreground characters, I made solid blocks of color roughly matching the pencils, then pared them down to shape, making for a completely line-less backdrop, allowing the characters to stand out more, somewhat like an animation layered above a painted backdrop. Last item on the menu was adding text. Since Version 4.0, Krita has reclaimed its text-handling abilities, and with a little tinkering (hey, it's been a couple of months since Trixie's Turn), added in the words and the balloon enclosing them without employing another application like in previous pics (I still keep Micrografx Picture Publisher around to run my scanner though).

Pencil on bristol, inked and colored in Krita 4.1.x. 15 layers, 230MB uncompressed, 12 hours total work logged by application (explanation).