Figure Study - Digital Painting

(August-December 2020)

One of, if not the first attempts I ever made at both figure drawing and digital painting in a more polished and high-quality capacity. I worked on this project on-and-off (roughly an hour a week on average, give or take) starting in late summer of 2020 and finishing around the end of the year.
Personally, I am not super happy with the result of the figure in the image: the entire figure is stretched horizontally/squished vertically, and the shading is overly harsh/hard in many areas (that said, as one of my first attempts at a realistic and finished figure/digital-painting, I am happy with the overall result despite the nitpicks, even though it took a while). I am quite pleased with how the background/environment turned out.
Whatever my thoughts on the piece itself, I can say with certainty that working on this project helped immensely with my ability to create 2D art and has come in handy on many occasions since then.

Reference provided by Croquis Cafe.