Hey guys, I hope you're doing well! I'm glad I made it (kind of) for this week's post. ^^' Excuse the unfinished pieces this time - I just didn't manage to get them finished for today. u-u I think this is a first that I'm posting unfinished WIPs here, but I figured this would be better than nothing. I was sad that I didn't have anything to post last week, so I definitely wanted to put up something today. This was a fun and strange week for me in terms of drawing - good, but at the same time nothing went the way I had planned, haha. 'xD
I started the week working on a completely different project, one that consists of a lot of individual drawings, and I realized I wouldn't be able to finish that in time for today. So while I was thinking about what I could draw as an alternative, a happy coincidence occured. I got inspired by one of @enjoyjellime's posts in the discord channel - some very interesting reference sheets with ideas how different Yashiki and Mashita's outfits could look like if they appeared int he world of Kindom Hearts (gonna add them below. hope that's alright). I've always been a fan of creating/drawing alternate outfits for characters, so that got me hooked. So I started working on these images, and I had a lot of fun, especially with designing their keyblades! ^^ I tried to put in elements that fit somehow to their characters. Some of them might be a bit hard to see/recognize, so I'm gonna describe them for anyone who's interested (if not, just skip the next paragraph).
For Yashiki's keyblade I was able to put a lot of different things in there (which I am a little proud of): a rabbit (where the cross-guard (?) would be on a sword), the pattern of the couch from the Kujou mansion on the heft, a 'depiction' of Mary's hat as the pommel and the 'teeth of the key' are formed like the upper half of the death mark pattern. For the ring of the key I took inspiration from the Kujou mansion's fassade - the small pillars on the guardrail of the small balcony and other eye-catching characteristics. The small keychain attached to the blade is supposed to be a small coffee mug. ^^ Mashita's keyblade was a bit more challenging, but I decided to go with a lot of roses and rose vines aesthetics because of the Hanahiko case in which we see Mashita for the first time, and it's also the most prominent spirit Mashita has to deal with (in my opinion) in the first game (and this is also a common theme in other fanworks ^^). The heft and cross-guard are supposed to resemble a revolver, since he's a former cop and still owns at least one gun that he seems to always be carrying with him (at least during spirit investigations). The keychain seems a bit boring I admit, I couldn't think of anything else than a cell phone/flip phone.
I drew Mashita without the hat/bonnet first, but when I'm finished with both of the images I might do a second version where he's wearing it (I like the design!). It just wasn't my priority at the moment because I was so occupied with the coloring. I had a very hard time with that part. Again... u_u'' I put so many hours in, trying to make this look good... which is also why I didn't manage to finish these in time. It also doesn't help that I went with a way more complex coloring method than I originally intended (was planning to do some quick works with flat colors and only a little bit of shading), don't know how that even happened. ^^' But at least now it feels like I'm on the right track. Hopefully, haha. 'xD It's weird how there's times where I manage the coloring part well right from the beginning, and then there's these other times where I'm struggling all the way through...
Anyway, I hope the preview of these works has been somewhat interesting to look at. Hopefully I'll be able to put up the finished versions next week, and then get back to working on that other project - I'm very curious how you guys will receive it. I got my inspiration for that one from the discord channel as well, but I don't want to spoil anything yet. So, after all this rambling, I'm hoping that you're gonna have a nice week. See you next time! : )
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