This took the better part of two days because I lit it both characters and the bench from six directions. The directionality doesn't show through nearly well enough to justify that, but the process lets me change every aspect of the image at the last second. I could decide to swap out the background for a night scene with strong blue lighting from above / below and it wouldn't take ten minutes. Every layer is a solid color with a busy alpha channel. On an unrelated note, the smudge tool in GIMP is apparently capable of begging for mercy.
I've been meaning to re-do one another picture involving Shayla and a bench, but don't hold me to it.
