If you asked me what my favorite project this year was, it's Areon. I was absolutely cooking with everything about him: the anatomy, the shading, and I managed to draw decent hands
The planned order today was paws -> tail -> shading, but shading helps with visualizing so I first completed the unmodified paws and then added the shading. :areon3VMlem:
I hope all those devs who went "I don't need to optimize, there's plenty of RAM" are going to get slapped with complaints about bad performance because the software runs like shit on new computers whose RAM size traveled back to 2015
It's interesting how the same rule can be phrased as either "we accept AI submissions as long as they fulfill our standards" or "we reject AI submissions unless they fulfill our standards", and one will generate a shitload of backlash while the other will be applauded.