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Oh ow my progress at regaining art joy slowed down a bit, but it's still going.
Also I forgot to resurrect my habit of throwing all doodles in here. 
I'll try to improve that :)

Sometime last month I've been thinking about Paul Fryer's Dark Morning Star sculpture, and did a little study of the pose, and then a wonderful situation of "hmm what if i put An Character here?👀" happened. 

and like. Okay! The nature is healing we're reaching saint sebastian-escue levels of OC art??? That's SUCH a good sign!!!.........uuuuuh what am i suppose to do about it though, what's the idea/what do i actually want to get in the end???

....Anyway, my first thought was to go with some....church windows-like shapes on the background (because of the reference), but it wasn't vibing with me.
Next test- remove background, and think more about colors+lights:

mmmmkay, the airbrush looks spectacular, but unfortunately I just don't want to paint an entire picture like that. I like what happened with the colors, but now that there's no bgr- it is awfully empty.
Next test- looked at many many screenshots of retro animes. Decided to add 1) thin lineart and 2) that trick with extremely glowy background

Not vibing with the glow. even though it does look cool. BUT thin lineart will stay

Next test- what if I make it into a lyric art?

No.

Next test- throw a bunch of brushes at it to see if anything sticks

And something did stick! Something's moving in a right direction
Next test- refine this idea

cooooool👀 But some places are kinda...off....empty?...composition wise??
Make it wetter! :D

Better! But still not enough.....

Aaaaand as per usual the answer is.....

ADD MOOOOREEEEE WIRESSSS >:D
(and ye thats about an hour+ of arting, and it's still just a rough sketch, but at least now I know where to go with it (✿◡‿◡)