Averi no stop they're an endangered species

WOO! I haven't made a proper big drawing start-to-finish-in-a-few-days in a very long time! It feels like the good old days again, except that the results are a lot better.

This is fanart for @fiddleafox on Twitter, who has a really cute fox character, Averi. She's big on chicken sandwiches and will do anything to get her mitts on one.

This is basically the first time in over a year that I've been able to produce something like this. And since the new Photoshop comes with some actually really good brushes, the process was an absolute BREEZE. Shading Averi was a total joy, and painting the background was much more fun than I ever thought such a thing could be. I'll grant you, a lot of that was probably because I haven't been able to do this much drawing in so long. But it was definitely a much smoother process than on earlier attempts. Frankly, I didn't know I had something like this in me. When I did 16 doodles of Harper the moth earlier this month, I regained some of the joy of drawing that I hadn't felt in so long. And with this... it's all back, baby! I may even find myself doing proper backgrounds more often... who knows. 😉