I’m not into anime, and the joke at the end makes no sense to me, but I wanted to say I like this drawing! The rays of sunlight are especially lovely! Did you use a lot of blending? :P
First off, I didn't expect many to understand it unless they've seen that specific show.
It's a cruel joke but they'll get it
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Second
Yes! I did indeed!
You could say the whole background is blending. 'cept the stairs.
I just erased the path for the light rays as shown in the actual picture, then the shadows in the rocks, I just rubbed excess graphite from my blender onto what remained. Giving it that effect of "foreground light" or what not. The railing bit was me literally making a camouflage pattern based off the picture, then blending the darker graphite and lighter graphite separately. Then lightly blending the edges of both while leaving the blank bits alone as much as I could.
This current work has more... ;-;