Colors! Aah, colors! @@

After fighting and whining about it for weeks, Valeon's color has finally come back to me!

Hard to see on its own, I'm half certain, but it's definitely something that works on the character himself. On this background, I can clearly see the need to bring the light a bit brighter in hue, and to lay it a little different so Valeon's arm doesn't look like it's trying to be a stick...
So now the sleeve fits a little bit better on his arm. And it looks better with the line that's meant to be there, but at least my intention can be seen now!

Perhaps will get the whole character painted in the next few hours and will have something to actually post in a little while. Better than this little half spit out I have now.

...mercy, it was so much easier to stay on schedule when I was doing sprite backgrounds!

Edit: 
It is much easier to draw and do certain things, such as wrinkles, when you remember to allow the program to affect brushes with pen pressure.

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