Technical Experiment: Crystal Leopard

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by SufficientGravitas

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so, I stumbled onto a nice method for creating crystalline structures, in a layer-heavy manner. that said, I've also found my new bottleneck on my computer. ram's fine, but I can't efficiently work on super-large canvases when using techniques like this.

slightly smaller canvases seem to work just fine, so transparency is on the menu for my art ;)

I'm really happy with the results though. this art's best viewed zoomed in, btw. this isn't just using internal texturing and shading, I did my best to do refraction through the crystalline leopard.

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