It's actually a more recent thing for me! The way I do final colors/shading is overly complicated, so painting it like this gives me a faster base to work with and helps me picture the final better when sketching. Some shading here was copied directly from rough to final layers then cleaned up, even

I'll probably post the actual pillow-free version eventually haha

That might be a bit of an illusion from the time kompression lol. but I do think having a pose template from the meme for reference helped things along

Thank you🙏

I'm planning on drawing nothing but elves this month, though I'm already a week behind lol

Yeah - I first saw it in this post. If you check the quote retweets there are a ton of them. I'm sure there's also a knowyourmeme article.

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You and me both

Yeah, there was a redraw meme earlier this year where people redrew their OCs based on the pinup girl on the cover of an old book. I actually started this months ago, lol

fingers crossed for marionette and/or shadow