How I make my "painted" mood themes

I started coloring in the first pigeons for my Fancy Pigeon mood theme last night, and decided to take screencaps of the process as I went! I figured that it might help demystify the process for anyone who might want to get started, or who's just interested in how I do things.

I've decided to call this style my "painted" style, as opposed to my "pixel" style, which, in contrast, is almost entirely pixel art with a lot of very minor changes.

( Cut for example images and a description of my process )

I hope that was entertaining and/or enlightening for you! I don't anticipate doing this for every mood (especially since I already finished Okay without saving any mid-process examples 😂), but I think it was fun to do at least once 👍