the second of two commissions for farorenightclaw, this time of a kittybot! I really enjoyed drawing xyr, yay neotenic characters and robots <3 and little paw hands, ohmygosh so cute. n_n the tights were totally inspired by a pair of leggings that saturnine made out of some really cool circuit print fabric.

unfortunately working on this made me realize something about doing commissions that I’m disappointed about, which is that I’m probably going to either not be able to offer full body painted images as part of our commission options or only offer one of them on a very occasional basis. due both to my health limitations and to the way I am most comfortable working (everything is drawn at the posted size and painted mostly on one layer) I am painfully slow and tedious at painting in this style, even though I have so much fun doing it. I feel like it both isn’t fair to commissioners to possibly deal with higher prices I’m not sure my work warrants to compensate for effort/time put into each painted piece (I believe this image took around 25 hours to do, for example), and not fair to myself to feel spread too thin or to make something I can’t be proud of just for the sake of finishing. I’ll have to figure something out, but for now I’m focusing on completing my few current trades and then I’ll at least open for some flat color + texture stuff.

thank you again for commissioning me farore, it was a pleasure to work with your characters. :>

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