Weekly Summary 2023/03
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Hello everyone! How are you doing?
This is the third weekly summary post for this year. 😊 I picked up the pace again this week and started a new illustration. It is also the first Lena illustration of the year! ✨🌸
14 January: (1627) Ponytail / doodle
![](https://behindthescenes.konayachi.com/content/images/2023/01/-1627--2023-01-14-preview-14-1.jpg)
It is a refreshing doodle page focusing on various kind of ponytails for my characters.
15 January: Illa Café Dev Notes 37
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Illa Café weekly dev notes report! Since last week I wasn't productive, it is embarrassing to write here that I only progressed one chapter from the previous week. Even Kitty is nervous-sweating... 💦🙇♂️ here I wrote about chapter 12 and my struggle in writing it.
16 January: (1629) Lena / sketch, greyscale
![](https://behindthescenes.konayachi.com/content/images/2023/01/-1629--2023-01-16-preview-16-1.jpg)
New week, new illustration! It is also Lena's first illustration for the year. I wrote about a challenge I imposed myself in this illustration for the sake of pushing boundaries and working with my limits.
17 January: (1630) Lena / illustration, wip
![](https://behindthescenes.konayachi.com/content/images/2023/01/-1630--2023-01-17-preview-17-1.jpg)
The progress for Lena illustration so far. I coloured her in an unconventional way, it is both difficult and fun.
18 January: (1631) Coffee Candy Cookie / illustration, fanart
![](https://behindthescenes.konayachi.com/content/images/2023/01/-1631--2023-01-18-preview-18-1.jpg)
A small illustration of a lovely new cookie in Cookie Run Ovenbreak: Coffee Candy Cookie! 🧡☕
19 January: (1632) Lena / illustration
![](https://behindthescenes.konayachi.com/content/images/2023/01/-1632--2023-01-19-preview-19-1.jpg)
I finished the Lena illustration! I talked about my progress in finishing this illustration, showed some layers structure for colouring her and also with the timelapse video included.
I drew things that made me happy and with my pace returned after a break, inspirations and urge-to-draw also return. Thanks to Lena's character design and concept, she allows me to experiment with new ways of colouring. I drew mostly with a opacity brush where I build in brush strokes to make more opaque colours. This method allows me to worry less about colours and focus more in value, especially during greyscale sculpting.
It is overall a very fun week, art-wise. I hope to work my best going forward.
Thank you for everyone who joins me here in Behind the Scenes. Let's do our best next week as well! 🧡
- Konayachi