What Was I Saying...?

As a sort of combo birthday present and attempt to bring myself into a more recent decade of art tools, I've picked up an iPad Pro and Procreate. Since MFF is a ridiculously-scary week-ish away, I've been frantically trying to get up to speed with it in time for the show. NGL, it's giving me trouble. :P Pinching with finger and thumb doesn't do anything, while pinching with one finger from each had goes into a free rotate/resize mode, I'm suddenly erasing or drawing on the wrong layer because the edge of my pinkie lightly brushed a tool, and so on.

So, it's taking me even longer to get art done than on the PC, and there's a lot of frustration involved with the process. This pic, for instance, which I wanted to have finished today, but got stopped by going down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out why my pictures of Nii-Chan weren't showing up in my iCloud photos so I could sample the colors off of them. :P So, hey, have a WIP instead. ^.^' Will I finish the pic tomorrow? Dunno. Hope so. XD

Fun Fact: Before Nii-Chan became basically "Me, But Girl" I had originally conceived of her existing in the Suburban Jungle universe, a kind of "self insert fan fic" entry into my own work. XD I had in mind that she was a college freshman and a big fan of Leona, looking to build her own show biz career, stories of meeting her gf, and so on. I never wrote any of those down and I don't know if I ever will, but that's the genesis of this pic. Nii-Chan loves to dance, and so do I, although I rarely indulge for fear of knocking over furniture, bystanders, or the occasional wall. I am not a graceful person. ¬.¬

Who knew it was so hard to find a static pose that reads as "dancing"? XD She's actually supposed to be in mid-spin here, knees bent quite a bit, but the net result is that her legs look short. XD Oh well. This is a practice piece, the important thing is learning the tool, rather than satisfaction with the work qua itself. And besides, she's still kinda cute. :)

-The Gneech