#i've also considered making the horns 2 layers but i dont think i will (too much work for too little effect & wont work 100% anyway)

[layalu]

Oooh, I can't not ask about liddle_guy, if you want to share anything about it!

Ok i cheated a bit because that's the name of my whole picrew folder fskjlsf, it's one project though so i think it counts! Here's some shots of how this thing looks behind the scenes :]

the actual image file is uhh. a bit of a mess jlfdsjfg, because there is A Lot Of Stuff. For this i tried showing how i break up stuff! For the headwear i'm usually blending in some ears and horns for placement reference, then dividing it into a main & back & front part so that it hopefully fits with most clothes and horns without too much weird clipping

look i actually named my folders!! xD Might put numbers in front to make the order match the picrew order so it's easier to find the right parts idk

that's what the overview page for the parts & layers looks like! i have. probably more layers than necessary lol, but to me half the fun is figuring out how to best divide & combine things to make them fit together

#tbf i think the headwear is one of the most complex parts; most other things have two layers at most (headwear has 4) #to elaborate on the hood example: #the main layer goes in front of the face but behind the horns #the front layer goes in front of the horns so they look to be poking through instead of clipping weirdly #the back layer is. well. the back of the hood lol. goes behind all other body & head layers #and then some headpieces (though not the hood) have an extra in-between layer that goes in front of the body but behind the face #for e.g. headscarves that hug the face (if i put it on the main layer it wold overlap with the face) #(i would make it in behind the ears as well if i could but ears are behind the head so that doesnt work) #i wanna see if i can make the hair work in a way that makes it less awkward with horns than it is currently but ill have to experiment #i've also considered making the horns 2 layers but i dont think i will (too much work for too little effect & wont work 100% anyway) #but ye! ty for the ask <3 #ask game/ my answers #my art