Long-overdue prize for ShadowRocketFox over on Twitter, who won the 200-follower raffle I had going on there last summer! Thank you for participating and I hope you're satisfied with your prize! As for what Shadow wanted? Their foxsona relaxing by the riverside, wearing a specific getup that I tried to emulate as best I could!

This project... was meant to be a lot simpler, with only basic shading and maybe a simple background going on at most, but things began to spiral out of control as I grew unsatisfied with how things were turning out and starting applying more detail in the hopes of changing my outlook. It wasn't long before what was meant to be a simple bust shot with basic shading turned into something with a lot more detail going on. From the details on the trees, to the riverbank turning more and more forest-like, and even smaller details like the faint fur patterns on Shadow and shirt detailing that proved to be a lot more work than I had anticipated... it seemed like "MOAR DETAIL" kept popping up in my head.

The hardest part, though, was trying to figure out what to do with the purple behind Shadow themself; for most of this drawing's life, that section was just a big flat purple square that served as little more than a placeholder. Original ideas were to make it look like the back of a beach chair, but the textures for that proved to be a lot harder to draw up than even I was willing to do. I was, however, able to conjure up an acceptable substitute: A pool raft! Shadow's supposed to be relaxing, after all, and few things are more relaxing than floating down a sleepy river in a raft with a cool drink in hand!