mourningcrows

Thank you so much! Painting those details really was the most fun part of it

Thank you for those kind words!

Ja wirklich jedes Jahr des gleiche... Danke dir, bleib du auch gsund!

Erster Urlaubstag, natürlich krank... Hoff jetzt mal, dass ich des Halsweh mit viel Tee schnell wieder loswerd, hatt heute eigentlich noch was vorghabt :')

hahahah, honestly? Not too far off either!

Nice of you to ask! It's an illustration of my Blades in the Dark (ttrpg) character! Over the course of the game she became more and more unstable, while also falling in love with someone and wanting to protect them at all cost. At a point she became too horrified of her own brutality, scared she would hurt that person. So when they were fleeing through a field of death fog, she stepped back into it just after everyone got out to eliminate herself as a source of danger.

On PC I use and love Clip Studio Paint. It's decently priced for what you get and often on sale (tho admittedly they've changed the pricing system recently which is a bit whacky, so I still use my old Version 1). However, many people use Krita nowadays, it's extremely good software, open source and completely free! On iPad I think the way to go is Procreate for rasterised images, and Affinity Designer is pretty good for vector art stuff

Personally I'm a bit out of the loop when it comes to drawing tablets, but I still use my ol' trusty Wacom Intuous Pro M. I basically learned drawing with a screenless tablet, so that's still what I'm most comfortable using - especially since I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. I do also have an iPad and it's definitely nice to draw on it, plus you can easily take it with you. Only downside is, if the rest of your periphery isn't Apple, it's a bit cumbersome to transfer files to say a computer or something (and of course the hefty price).

As for screen tablets, last I heard the Cintique were great, but a bit pricy. Couple years ago other brands like XP-PEN and Huion were already catching up and getting good reviews, so maybe look into them if you're looking for something a bit cheaper, they might be even better by now.

Oh! I thought it might be eggs on the back that make it look so bumpy

and I just looked up wolf spiders, turns out their numbers have recently increased around here, so it might very well be one! Just thought the legs seemed a little too thin compared to the images I saw online