Snacked for a Hundred Yume @ Sky Kingdom

Behold, the second entry of SHY - the project where I use YNO’s Vending Machine Finder expeditions as an excuse to practice painting! Today’s featured location is Sky Kingdom. Please do ignore how this should’ve come out about two weeks ago.

Straight from the first glance, it should be obvious there are some major differences between the making of SHY01 and this. Unlike 01, the focus here has been shifted even further towards the background, rather than Urotsuki.

Speaking of the background, this time I’ve completely done away with the overly slow process I used in SHY01: instead of using layers for different background elements, I… used none. Not like I had any choice, using MS Paint for this drawing (painting?). Also, I haven’t wasted time trying to make perfectly accurate shapes - and failing at the hands of a fence with a diamond pattern - which allowed me to save enough time to finish the background in about 2 hours and 30 minutes, with nearly all the work done within the first hour and 50 minutes.

At this point, you might be wondering why I took so long to get this finished. The answer is procrastination: I held off from drawing Urotsuki and wrapping this up for over a week. In the end, this might’ve been for the better, though! Not too long ago I tried pouring some more style in an Uro sketch, which resulted in something far better than any other drawing of her that I had made at the time. I tried to do the same thing here, although at a much smaller scale.

At the time of writing, SHY03’s background is nearly complete… and there are 4 more SHY entries queued up. This is really starting to get messy.