step 1. sketching. the dark black lines help me determine the flow of the chains and the braid when the layer's opacity is reduced.
step 2. line art. i change small things at this stage, like clothing, accessories, hands etc.
step 3. paint background character. this is done all in one layer.
step 4. paint foreground character. this is also all in one layer.
step 5. external objects that would otherwise be a pain to be painted in the same layer as the characters lol.
step 6. background colour/gradient. i'm leaving the wings for later because it's pointless to paint it against a white background.
step 7. wings.
step 8. spicing the background.
step 9. purple gradient overlay and signature.
