Hum, hum~

Some more posting of what I've been doing lately.

This is from a story I've been building very slowly over the years, so it's just more character/world building. For some vague BG, the gloves are standard issue for a magical weapon-smithing group. The three pointed nails are for picking up and manipulating smaller details when needed and the knuckle-busters are there so the smiths can clock the hell outta anyone who messes with them.

And, yes, there's an actual need for them to do some clocking in the story. They're pretty fierce.

Now below is some Tokyo Ghoul fanart. Faiell, the troublemaker, pitched the basic outlines of the plot for me and I got curious enough to read through the manga. I got...really invested in the story and characters. Thus, the fanart.

I was really surprised how much the two drawings below came out, though. They were drawing exercises at the most for another larger illustration I'm still working on, but I'm happily pleased how the colors in the first one below came out and how the scratchy style of the second seemed to accentuate the madness I wanted to draw out. They were pretty fun to do, as fanart tends to be.

Now below the cut is some more fanart stuff, though not as finished.

I am so sleepy right now, but here's a title, I guess

A couple of things wrapped up recently so I can now come around to posting a couple of things I've finished lately.

Not exactly sure why the above image is darker than usual. I'll have to figure that out in a bit, but for now the actual colors for it is the final image in the WIP gif below.

This started out when I wanted to draw something in pastel tones, bunnies, and a very interesting face mask I saw online. So, haha, I was actually a little surprised that I came up with some kind of pastel goth rabbit with unsettling graphic fangs in the end. 

I named this work Infatuation. I'll have you figure out what that implies with the illustration, haha. Hopefully it's pretty straightforward!

It was really fun to draw something with this sort of viscousness overlaying cuteness; I might do something along this mood again. I also had a lot of fun designing the background pattern and I had a couple of different designs by the end of the illustration. I might get around to doing a whole set of them for the graphic arts side of my portfolio.

Again, colors don't like me and the original color scheme is the last image in the WIP below. What is even going on with this, I swear....

So this was originally for a Fire Emblem: Awakening fanzine, but after some speculation, I decided not to go for it and just post this as is. However, I ended up liking this so much that I'm posting it along with the original work and might use it as a portfolio piece if I can't decide on something better to replace it with.

I originally started this on CMYK as asked for by the fanzine's guidelines and, haha, it was one of the few times I started an illustration on CMYK. Coloring in CMYK was surprisingly painless; it was only when I decided not to use this for the fanzine that things got a little funky. The internet doesn't like CMYK images after all and I had to do a bit of adjusting and changing with color profiles to get it back to what I originally wanted the image to look like in RGB.

...It's honestly typical image adjustment stuff. (makes hand-wavey motions)

As for the actual coloring style, I was originally aiming for oxboxer's style with her delicious way of implementing line weight and gradients to make her finished pieces. I still don't like coloring all that much, so I decided I would try out her style to see if I liked hers. The end result doesn't quite look like oxboxer's, but experimenting with gradient shading and line weights came out pretty well regardless, I think. I could even dare to say I ended up figuring out my own way of using her style to make it my own. I'll try using this method in other pieces, too, since it wasn't too bad figuring it out.