Welp, got an entry. Posting it in three pieces, with an explanation to follow:



So what happened? Indecision! It's kinda hard to come up with a "Summer" piece in the middle of South African Winter. So I sat down with a bunch of references, drew out a grid of thumbnail sketches, couldn't decide which one to go with… ended up using over half of them on a 7200x4800 canvas. ClipStudio Paint started to choke a bit towards the end, and exporting the full sized image as PNG takes about 3 solid minutes, with a 13mb file as the result. XnView chokes on
that.
I decided, instead of uploading the full-size picture to upload it in 'pieces', first a resized overview of the whole, then two zoomed in crops of the main elements. I'm going to try upload the full-size image to the file manager and let people peruse my hasty line and brushwork at their leisure.
Big lesson learned? Don't overreach my design for art jams either, I don't have the time to work on super-complex pieces
and maintain some sanity.
Thanks for the excuse to draw something Jani.
Great details and concept. Love how you did the overall contrasty lighting.
We've all been there (haven't we?)