Ah it feels kind of refreshing, but at the same time I really just want to focus on my own characters. I took so much from the characters I admired and made them my own, but this was definitely fun!

I specifically wanted to practise a more “glowy” style with backlighting and just more depth and saturation than before, and I’m happy with the results!

Also Jujutsu Kaisen is such a silly over the top show. Very fun to watch, though I didn’t expect to not become obsessed with Gojo immediately. He’s definitely the arrogant powerful outwardly happy type that I like but the lack of backstory seems to have made him not interesting to me! So I have a feeling season 2 will change that for sure. In the meantime, I think Inumaki Toge is amazing so I decided to draw him instead!

And of course Okita Souji!!! I’ve wanted to draw him since I first watched Peacemaker Kurogane sooo long ago, but at the time I didn’t have the skills to not copy a screenshot directly. Now I felt like I could actually make him as pretty as I wanted! Yay! It’s definitely liberating to be able to draw my own poses and bring these characters to life in my own style!

And Freik, the first experiment in this style. My favourite pretty demon who I can draw easily as a baseline to start this experimentation! How cute does he look in a pink shirt too!