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Unsteady Night

After feeling unsatisfied with my previous complex gen, I decided to challenge myself and create this piece.

One of the biggest issues with my previous work was that the line quality became noticeably blurry when viewed at its original size. This image still has some similar limitations, but I feel it is a significant improvement compared to my previous attempt.

I also want to give a special thanks to TerraRaptor. I had a few conversations with him about the challenges of generating complex images, and he was incredibly patient in answering my questions. His insightful suggestions gave me a lot of inspiration and helped me approach this process in a completely different way.

This image took me three days to complete, and it is still far from perfect. I tend to be a perfectionist, but eventually I had to accept that there were simply too many things that could be refined. At some point, continuing to edit every small detail started to drain my motivation.

Just the hands of the two performers alone were probably revised around a hundred times. Many other small details were also repainted or refined hundreds of times. That number is not an exaggeration.

I also chose not to run a full-image denoise after finishing the artwork, so some areas may still reveal traces of the repainting process. There are definitely imperfections remaining, but I hope the atmosphere and effort behind this piece can still come through.

Thank you for taking the time to view it.

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