It took me almost 5 years, but I have finally completed the set I started way back in 2019 December. My very first ever completed art set with all my main characters too!! not the first one I attempted either, but the first I saw through and I am oh so very happy!
Drawing the last half of these was such pain, since when I did the first two, I was actually experimenting with a few things, mostly the line art, having a textured brush and setting it to the shade layer mode. Funny thing is, this does not work very well with my thick line art style sooo it made the flats very tedious to do. I am very happy to be finally free of that.
Aside of the lineart, the other parameters I had set for these was that both hands had to be shown, which ahaha was so much pain posing wise cause I didn't want any of them to be repeats, my sonas being the only exception since it made sense for them to mirror each other; have the circle/bg and the lighting be their signature colour; and lastly, show off their personality (or the one they present to others) as best as I can, which was also very challenging but I think I did an okay job there.
Not gonna lie I am over the moon to have these done aaaah, they took so long!! Even tho drawing one really doesn't eat that much time, I could've def done the whole thing in three weeks tops if I wanted. And yet... 5 years man... Amazingly, I think I'm only really unhappy with one of them, maybe like 4 total that I'm not fully satisfied and that's quite surprising to realize.
Though looking at these also hurts cause man, it feels like.. very real visual proof that in all those years I haven't gotten better at art.. and like I know in some ways I have but.. it sure looks that I haven't made any progress at all in terms of head anatomy and hands and that's just a big ouch to me.
Anyway, for anyone curious, here's the timeline of these:
- Takara and Tairan in 2019 December;
- Aren and Sindri in 2020 June;
- Dajete in 2021 June and Zonran in November and then Boumobaku in December;
- Kaito in 2022 June;
- Besh and Hal in 2024 April and Y in 2024 July.
(I can't believe I didn't do a single one in 2023 rip...)
