My gift was for the lovely @lawyermurderer, who gave the prompt: “Athena is teaching Apollo a new language because solving a murder means sometimes your client doesn’t speak your language.” So they’ve got a Spanish client! I don’t think Apollo’s great with languages, but he’s trying his best guys. He’ll get there eventually… probably.
Thought about this while I was driving for 5 hours
I do not have an obsession with bayo origins or ace attorney. I do not have an obsession I do not have an obsession I do not have an obsess- You should really play Bayonetta Origins Cereza and the Lost Demon
First minibang ever and first fully colored Ace Attorney fanart! I made 2 pieces for this fic because why not. ^ ̮ ^ I hope everyone enjoys reading it and all the other fics and artworks made by the others that participated in the minibang! :)
The rest of the post is just some of my thoughts/processes of the pieces.
The hardest thing about making this is that I don't normally color in people or clothes; they're hard for me. Especially when I'm making lineless art, but this minibang lets me practice when I normally wouldn't. Which I should. Can you tell I'm not great with short hair either?
The idea for the first piece was based off this!
If you read the fic before seeing this, you'll notice that they are holding stroopwafels like what Apollo made in the fic. I thought it would be cute for it to be heart-shaped.
Here, have a background *throws*
Don't worry about why the patterns of the foods are all weird. When I made this, I wanted it to be split, so one side is what Apollo made and the other is Klavier. Can you guys guess which art food is which food from the fic?
For the second one, I made a sketch of their clothes, and that's what they're wearing. :D Klavier's gloves are based on these gloves I have irl, but mine have hearts on them.
The food is a copy & paste & warped from the background of the first piece because I was too lazy to redraw them. And maybe I was procrastinating until the end :p The blanket is also based off the background of the first piece.
I made a grass brush. It's not great looking because it's also how I normally draw grass. The chains I downloaded off the internet.
Here's everything from my part of the POPSTAR'S SUPER ULTRA SCRAPBOOK ZINE @popstarzine!!! Everyone worked really hard on their artworks so check it out :)
First we have the final artwork!
With and without the spotlight :D Everything, except the spotlight, was done using traditional mediums and scanned individually. I'm really glad I could be a part of this and it being my first zine.
Take a look at the process video
Keep reading for details :o
Concept sketches and final sketch before painting
The sketch has the list of enemy characters and a few different thumbnail sketches of Dedede. The gist of the artwork was to show the characters working together to set up the fighting ring for the fight that happens in game with the 4 small paintings. With the middle painting being Dedede in the decorated room. I re-sketched 2 of the small paintings I was having trouble visualizing and some background and foreground bits.
This sketch was the original sketch for my piece before I was told I needed Dedede in it. I plan on coloring this, but I'm busy so it will just have to be a sketch for now.
Background and foreground
The background pattern is the pattern from the sides of the fighting ring, but without Dedede's face and symbol. It was made with alcohol markers and the white lines are painting with acrylic pen.
For the foreground, the light purple drape is from where the crowd sits, and the side banners are from the main fighting ring. Both painted with gouache with the side banners having paper stars I cut out using my Cricut and drew the gold with a pen. The bottom part of the foreground is the ropes and poles of the ring.
Paintings
Top left - The area the Waddle Dees are in is the room before the fight Dedede
Top right - Noddy and Simirror are on the covering the sides of the stage, but Noddy fell asleep and is not being helpful.
Bottom left - They are on top of the stage but looking up at the support beams
Bottom right - Also on top of the stage, but it is angled facing downward
Middle - I thought it would be funny if Dedede used his strength to step down on the ropes. Also, do you notice that Mario and Peach are in the crowd?
Stickers, stamps, & paper
Stickers - I lied when I said everything was made using traditional mediums >:) the stickers were drawn digitally, printed and rescanned. Yes, they're actual stickers and I will stick them on to everything.
Sticky note & breezes - Words on the sticky note were carved out of rubber carving blocks and using ink to stamp it onto a sticky note. The breezes are from the start screen of string breeze and are finger painted on paper with ink
Wax stamp - wax seal was also carved from rubber carving blocks. Scanning the wax stamp was difficult because it wasn't flat, so I took a picture of it instead
Scanner & Editing software
For the scanner, I used a Canon Lide 400 scanner and for the price it's a pretty good, but this is my first scanner, so I'm not sure how other scanners fair.
I used Affinity Photo 2 on my iPad to put everything together. I originally used Procreate, but after seeing the quality I realized I needed a photo editing program. So I used the free trial from Affinity to make the final artwork. Original I wanted the final piece to have a white border but decided against it and instead added shadows to make it look like a spotlight. Also added some shadows to some areas.
Everything but it's not scanned
Ok, thanks for coming to my art talk :D see you next time!
Cheshire was so hard to get right. I'm not use to drawing animal like things along with weapons. So I found some models and used them as a base Cheshire was really hard because I don’t usually draw animal characters. Found a 3D model and used it as a basic for his head. Also can’t draw weapons and found a picture of the spear. Sketch was done on Procreate then transferred to paper and painted with watercolor and gouache.