I haven´t finished with you yet

It seems unbelievable that I started this piece as something quick to get a badge on Deviantart, and in the end, the result turned out so good that I ended up using it as the base for the cover of each of my pages. Let me tell you the whole process.

To begin with, picking up where I had left off last time, where our cute girl was ready and wishing to be tickled, I gave her what she wanted most—a tickler—only for her to realize, too late, that sometimes one has to be careful with what they wish for. The problem was that despite the good results as individual images, I discovered in the worst possible way that what works best as a cover are images that tend to expand horizontally rather than vertically. So, I had to take a small step back and rewind the action a few minutes by removing the tickler... It's a shame, but of course, I will publish soon these images as an individual set.

What you can see in order are: the base image, the Patreon cover, the covers for my other pages where I promote myself, three covers that I ended up discarding for Patreon, and template 1, and 2 now with colors. I started by rendering the base image and then creating templates that would work on all my pages, so I wouldn't have to redo a cover for each page. Once I confirmed that the template image wasn't show cropped on any page, I got to work on a promotional cover for Deviantart, Pixiv, and Twitter. Transparent PNG works quite well on all three platforms, but here on Patreon, apart from the fact that the message the girl says is not appropriate, Patreon on PC does something I don't like: it leaves the cover space blank and the rest of the page slightly grayish, not pure white. This creates a rather unpleasant effect for me, so besides modifying the speech bubble, I also had to add a background. I tried several that I didn't save, and the ones you see here were almost the final choices. In fact, I put one of them for a day. As you can see, this is more of a "How it was made" rather than a "Work in progress," but I felt like sharing it. Who knows, maybe you like one of the discarded covers or even the previous animated one better... It's not that I didn't like it, but I have realized that the image quality of GIFs, at least the ones I've made, is generally a bit worse than that of static images.

UPDATE: The cover that I was going to use definitively didn't even last 24 hours. I have made a new update, and the one you can currently see is the one I'm adding to this post as the last image. This time, I will truly leave it for definitily, or at least for a much longer time.