Today, I'm making a thread that I've gone back and forth with myself for some time, deciding whether I should do it or not. I tried to follow Gabbie's example and to be ok with people not believing me, but since the issue was raised again i feel like I need to get this straight.

On October 2nd, i posted this tweet:

This is a drawing i did with my friend, months ago. We finished it near the end of June, but then *everything* happened and it never felt right to post it. https://twitter.com/badgjhkarma/status/1312149892815491073?s=20

The day i posted it, it got some traction, and the day after i quote tweeted it again. https://twitter.com/badgjhkarma/status/1312336780335734784?s=20

Gabbie noticed that tweet and replied, and even quote tweeted the drawing.
https://twitter.com/GabbieHanna/status/1312506642500517890?s=20

Not long after, people in the fandom, started making subtweets, saying it was just a PicsArt oil filter. Gabbie deleted the quote tweet.

I tried defending myself in the replies, but couldn't prove that it's legit - it's been months and I deleted the original file, and my friend, who helped me with it, didn't have it either - i posted our conversation is in this thread. https://twitter.com/badgjhkarma/status/1312543636597420038?s=20

I let it go for the time, since there was nothing I could do to prove that I did draw it, but it always stuck with me. One day, when I had way too much free time, I went through months and months of conversations with the friend who helped me, trying to find anything as proof.

Before I share the screenshot of what I found, I want to make my story very clear again:
I started drawing the EP cover at the end of May/beggining of June. I am mostly self taught at digital drawing, but I also had a year of Photoshop in my 1st year of highschool.

I originally wanted to make just a regular drawing, but then decided to make something *special* for this EP. I decided that I wanted to make one of those ~ hyper realistic ~ drawings. For that I needed a solid base, so I traced over the original image.

For people that don't know, tracing is a very conversational drawing technique, since you don't need too much talent for it, because you're just going over the already existing lines. After that, I started coloring it with the most of my knowledge.

I realized that I had NO idea how to make that "realistic" look and I asked my friend for help - she draws in another program, Paint Tool Sai & I sent her the draft. That is what I want to share with you.

This is from June 4th, which was at the very beginning of the drawing process - as you can see from the "BOJA" (color, in serbian) layer, even the original coloring still wasn't completed.

Me and my friend went back and forth for almost the entire month, working on it - when we had time, we worked together over Team Viewer, but she also did it on her own accord, in her spare time. We ended up using a 3rd program - Adobe Illustrator to get the look I wanted.

I really didn't want to make this thread, mostly because I didn't want to create any more "drama" in the fandom, but also because I feel that i have no bad blood with people who accused me of being a liar but I wanted to stand up for myself, because this was raised again.