Posted December 13, 2018 at 12:16 am

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Something I like about this is that I based Professor Mall Elliot's outfit colors more around her being a professor, and less trying to perfectly match it to her hair or eyes or whatever. I tweaked it a bit to work better with her base palette, but I didn't start there, and that's something I think I should do more.

I insisted on making the blackboard greenish because I'll always have a soft spot for greenish blackboards. That was pretty much the norm when I was a little kid, and even though I despise the horrific sound of chalk and was thrilled that my high school almost entirely used dry erase boards, I tend to think more "greenish blackboard" than "dry erase board" when I think of areas of a classroom in which you can write on the wall and not get yelled at.

There's also the fact that dry erase boards are, by design, white, and don't make for great backgrounds even if you cleverly make it an off-white, but that nostalgia thing is true, too.