I had this idea a while back, to have two characters sitting on a stoop drinking beers and talking through life's problems. Funny enough I started this painting before Vin Collie got created, but I was a bit late finishing it.

This pic underwent 3 big revisions. It used to be way bigger and showed the whole stoop and the sidewalk. Then I tried a second time cropped a bit in with some different lighting. Then this third time I got some help from the ever incredible CivetStranj (strange-fox) and managed to finish the piece, but not without some struggle.

I was having RIDICULOUS troubles painting the jacket on the fox, and really, large areas of the head and torso in general. As nothing was rendering properly, I decided to go full artsy and grab a handful of texture brushes and just use them EVERYWHERE in the hopes that the baffling overuse of texture would help distract the viewer from my inability to render things well.

It worked pretty well! But it's still clear that the texture use was largely excessive and repetitive. I think it would be nice to redo some parts on the left side of the image and give a little more variety to the texture as opposed to overusing one brush.

Still, I am trying to get used to the mantra of "Finished, Not Perfect".