initial rough sketch, ~30min, just sketching around on a single layer with the pencil tool except for the background stuff, kinda thinking of the five thousand takes on this that Erté did

starting some colors, experimenting with much stronger highlights than I've been doing lately

pretty much there

except for those last few bits I wanted to make sure I didn't want to forget, so I put them in a big bright "notes" layer for the next time I opened up the file