DB - Soulmates

Well that took about 5 times longer than I had intended to spend on this. Why does that sound familiar? 

So this is yet another AU for Dear Beans, in this particular case, the ...Single Parent!AU!!! xD This be Seth’s kid (Everest) + Chris’s super white and fluffy husky lab mix puppy (Sunny). Everest should be in preschool for the AU; he looks a bit old here.
In canon-verse, Sunny is married!Seth & Chris’s dog, so she’d be “Sunny Go”... but now Chris isn’t married and so the dog’s name is “Sunny Sun”? lmao that sounds kinda weird.

Too many AUs? Have a list.

• Problem Areas: 
  
• Everest’s face: Originally done in attempted child anime-ish style; already hard to get there, but then that looked extra awkward when the hands looked too realistic; eventually went for semi-realism (it’s been a long while haha)
• I super cannot draw animals, but okay cool good enough. 
• The puppy’s legs are kinda splayed out, but that looked weird so I tried the regular sit. That looked weird too, so back to this. 
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• Drawn mostly with the hexagon brush and a tiny bit of 63 watercolor(?) brush (a.k.a my usual) and a cloud brush or two. 
  
• Colors/values were kinda weird on Everest, so I switched to painting in grayscale(ish) (it would've been useful to just have mask type layer? DxD)
• Not quite sure how to go from grayscale to color though, so some of the colors are kinda wonky...
• Used blend mode "Color" and some "Soft Light" semi-haphazardly to give Everest and the background (er, above ground?) some color. 
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• Refs used: this + some old photos of my brothers
• Here’s a gif of my WIPs.
  
• Here’s a video of most of my drawing process at 32x speed. 
  
• Here’s a mostly desaturated version.
  

I swear I didn't mean to write this much in the description. Anywho, I need to work on my drawing/painting speed. >.>
And also TLC Ship Weeks. I should be working on TLC Ship Weeks.