ha-tep replied to your photo “Sometimes, alone up on Five, John quietly feels not quite as human as...”
YOU HAVE COME AN INCREDIBLY LONG WAY!!!!!! This is so brilliant and soft I wish i could smush himmmmmm. You should do a comparison of them side by side, even if only for yourself to see, am sure you'll see how far you've come
You are the lovLIEST BEAN!!!
Ta Daa! A comparison!!!! I do feel like I’ve learned a lot in five years, and that it’s almost 100% drawing dem thunderbois that’s done it XD
I never quite liked the softer cloud colours in the original, they look more like London smog than space but I did like the smothering softness of them. In the new one I did soften down the colours with a grey layer, but not quite as much to almost make him monochrome. My new line art is a lot neater and finer (probably because I’ve done like seven chunky sketch layers underneath) and though I still love using heavily textured brushes I think I’ve got them down to a not-as-much-of-a-crazy blob point. Did I even render the skin in the original? Barely. I wanted to try the soft hands thing in the new one but it wouldn’t go quite right (I later realised that I was putting the thumbs outward and anatomy doesn’t DO that, so points to past-Len there) so I went with a more, holding-self-protectively but uncomfortably that I think I like more anyway, as it feels more disconnected.