Bonus

The sketch✏️ The painting ? This one was started in 2012 and finished in 2020. Certainly my longest time between starting and finishing a piece ?

For most of my pieces though, the sketch is pretty close to the direction of the final thing. Below is one of my roughest sketches.

Another one, because why not? Sketch and final

Man I was not expecting the 90s Sugimori Pokemon art style to be the way more difficult one of the two styles to work in. Deceptively very high level of subtlety. If you'd like to color them yourself here are the lines.