This picture began all the way back in April 2023. I painted the rock fairly quickly and sketched some bits of station stuff, but it didn’t look all that great and was forgotten not long after. Fast forward to the very end of that year when it was spontaneously unforgotten, and I reworked the sketch into something decent. Then kept on sketching and outlining until, in the end, the actual process of painting the complex amounted to duplicating those hours of effort by doing little more than colouring in the fairly rough lines. Oops.

All in all, 283 days from start to finish, with just shy of 19 hours of total pen-on-screen time.

Unfortunately, despite a fair bit of effort, I feel the ship on the left came out pretty poorly. In fact if it’s just gone altogether…

I feel it’s a substantial improvement.