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I drew Niko from Oneshot!

It hasn't even been a week since I discovered Oneshot and I think I would die for Niko. This game is great and everyone needs to play it. More art-related ramblings under the cut!

This is the... third time I've bothered to try making a proper background/environment (first with M-O, and then with the raptor) and it's not too bad. I didn't really want to obscure it with blur filter masks like I did before, since nothing's moving and I didn't think a "zoomed in" look would work here like it did for M-O (Niko may be small, but not that small). If you look reeaally closely, you might be able to make out the random noise filter mask I put over the ground. I was trying to make it look a little less flat and a little more grainy to give it some texture, and to be fair when you zoom in it actually kinda works. Unfortunately that graininess I was going for is just a bit too fine to be noticeable when viewed normally.

But hey, you know what else isn't noticeable when viewed normally? The obnoxiously large number of layers I used for every little thing and bit of lighting stacked on top of one another!

MY GOD I CAN'T EVEN FIT THEM ALL ON-SCREEN AT ONCE IS THIS TOO MANY? I WOULDN'T KNOW, I HARDLY KNOW WHAT I'M DOING

But it turned out looking not bad, so whatever works I guess.