i just lost a longish description due to it 500 erroring when i submitted it :(. lets try this again, fingers crossed this time.

in terms of the piece, i'm happy with this one, and the only part that really didn't come out right is her right knee, which if not hidden by her arms, would be bent and weird. i only noticed this after finishing the piece, and it's probably too much work to fix at this point, oh well.

interestingly, this is one of the few pieces where i use a lot of 1px outlines -- something that is pretty rare in my pixel art (i only really use them to distinguish when something is in front of something else of the same color, and it happens that this piece is full of that). despite not being a technique i use very often (and one i've certainly fucked up a fair few times in other pieces), i think it came out well here.

one thing i am particularly happy with in this piece is the hand. like a lot of people, i struggle with drawing hands in many cases (especially pixelling them, since they often play into some of my weaknesses as a pixel artist, e.g. high detail areas with a lot of the same color), and this one came out really nice.