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Artist's commentary
This image is tagged as "experimental", this is done when commission doesn't properly represent the number of slots used. In most cases this is because I spent more time drawing it than the number of slots required, but it's always good practice to experiment so I'm happy to do it!
Reason for Experimental: The background took some extra time, but I htink it came out really nice despite looking quite simple. One example of actual "experimentation" done here is that I didn't know prior to drawing the foreground leaves that they should be lighter towards the edge of the image and darker towards the middle, but after trying a couple different things I think this way looked really nice compared to some alternatives.