"Okay Skits, it's ti-"
"Pleaaaase, can we stay up to read just a little more?"
"No, it's bedtime."
"Aww, but I at least want to finish the article..."
"Skits, I have a test tomorrow and I want at least four hours of sleep."
"Please? It'll be fun."
"... sigh... Just for you, Skits..."

^^^This is the struggle that goes on in my head on school nights.

Haaaahhhhhhhhhh... It's dooooone!!!! Finally!!!!!!

Okay, so I did -this thing- almost a year ago, and it was pretty much the best I could do back then. Well, I decided to do a (slightly modified...) remake, just to see the improvement over the last year. This remake took 12.5 hours, partly because I'm an idiot and forgot how to render fur, so I spent 3 hours messing with the shading while getting increasingly frustrated. I actually almost deleted the whole thing at one point, I'm so glad I stuck through it now...

Well, looking back, I've improved a whole lot in just one year. There are still things I need to work on (like not making anatomy fixes after I do the final lineart...) but overall I've come a long way. It's been a fun journey, filled with constant Photoshop crashes, lots of lag, hurt fingers from drawing on a tiny trackpad, drawing the same thing five times and still not getting something right...

Like I said, it's been fun. XD

Anyway, I actually made a speedpaint of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Iutv58Kd0&feature=youtu.be
As you can tell, the smear tool is my best friend. It can be a love/hate relationship sometimes.
(Warning: If you check out the rest of my YT channel, it's mostly gaming videos from a friend or random worthless content from when I was eleven.)