Hi, guys! What's up?
I hope all of you are doing great over there!

My boss and the investors are on a stalemate regarding the use of AI. He said we'll do 1 new project and leave the decision for later after seeing the result. It'll take a while until the new project starts, so I have plenty of time to prepare myself mentally haha. 

I try to stay positive. Fortunately, there's a new game on the arcade near my house so I can pour my stress there by smashing buttons (I'm playing Mezastar Pokemon). It's quite addicting so I have to be careful X'D In any case, I'll keep doing my best!

Meanwhile, Saving Grace's village background have made good progress! I think I'm almost done with the forest surrounding the village, I'm having a little difficulty arranging the different shades of green--but what troubles me the most is the ricefield. At first I draw it like this:

But then it looks a little odd from afar, since this means the slope is VERY steep since you can see the surface of the ricefield like that. So after a few more revising & looking up more references, it turned out like this now:

I think this one looks better since it's not too distracting but you'll still know that's a ricefield...right?
The only thing left is to render the main road + making more small decoratives. Like hanging clothes/banner and the potted plants are still in progress.

For now, the full preview of this WIP village background will only be available to my $5 and up patrons on Patreon! I'll release the full preview here next week~ so stay tuned!

That's it for now and see you again next week!
Thank you as always for sparing some of your time to read this update ^_^)/
I hope all of you are well! Don't forget to rest, eat well, and sleep plenty!
xoxo,

SweetChiel

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