Trying a shiny glowy anime style!
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!
King of Demons
Yet another fantastic picture of Freik! This time showcasing his demon tendrils too! I accidentally made his chains glow though, and realistically, he wouldn't be sitting on a dragon themed throne, but I just wanted something for the picture.
Six Winged Butterfly
I hated my last version of digital Preaura so much that I finally managed to redraw her! I am liking the consistency with her kimono now!
Two Along Their Way
Gosh I am not keeping up with posting all my drawings, I don't seem to have posted the previous picture of Tohmiel and Diadresca. Just another cutesy one :)
Date Night / Dessert Thief
A dual title because this is a combination of two ideas for the same scene! Abek and Peln are on their date night, which in itself is a cute pic. However, in that scene, they’re so distracted, that they ignore the dessert they ordered. Cue Odara, who’s just off to the side and sees this as the perfect opportunity to sneak a second dessert in!
Also from a recent theatre adventure watching the Echoes of Van Gogh ballet performance, there were these beautiful sunflower skirts that all the dancers wore. I couldn’t help but imagine that Abek would absolutely love wearing one, and that he found one at the shops and is talking dirty to Peln – “wanna see a new skirt I bought today?”.
And of course Odara then swoops in for a chunk of strawberry cake!