Posting this here too because I feel like it

let me guess

she's fighting one of her old partners she worked with before she disabled her brain chip thingy

I say this because the models look very similar

Actually no, the pilots were never partners.

The two are meant to be complete opposites, they actually didn't even know each other prior to enhancement.

Not necessarily a doppelganger but... a sort of dark counterpart to Aurora. I'm still working on the character though. I had a design for her but I'll probably redo it

Also in lore the mechs are the same model, both are Amazon units just with different equipment and armor. The one on the right is much closer to the base model

so like

Give them purple hair

Ohy god holy peak

:D

Making this my wallpaper NOW

Nice

How da fart do you draw backrgounds

I watch ads to use a watercolor brush to make fog for ones like this

Other times though I can't spam fog and have to actually draw stuff, in which case the backgrounds generally end up being basic shapes like boxes, and for background lighting I use the airbrush so the main focus stands out more since I do cell shading for that instead

This background is basically two boxes with some jagged holes and a lot of fog/smoke spamming.

I also reused the moons I drew for my card game playmat but used the airbrush to change the phase so it looks different

TL;DR: I cut corners everywhere I can. And when I can't, I wing it.

Also quick tip for fire, you can make the embers by drawing some tiny specks and applying some blur filters. That's what I did here.

Just... make sure you have the embers on a separate layer for that.

Oh also speaking of filters they can be good help when making backgrounds

I didn't use many here because of how much I could obscure details with fog and smoke but I recommend looking through them yourself and seeing which ones you like, there's lots of different ones and while looking for ones to use on this I found some really interesting glitch filters

Admittedly I should be using filters more often than I do but I can never find a good place for them in what I make, but to be fair I usually don't get to the point where I'd actually be using them since I just leave stuff as a sketch and a lore paragraph

Also please post more stuff here bro

Even if you don't actually do too much here anymore, I at least like to see your stuff

tuffets shit i’ve seen all day