TIAN - King X’s "Saber” -- or right hand. A generally friendly fellow with an affinity for remote-controlled projectiles.
He’s not as obnoxious as he looks I promise ;;; At this stage in the Montevarro universe’s development, the details of the position of Saber are a little vague. All we know for sure is that they sorta play second in command to the Crown... sometimes as a reinforcer, a messenger, a personal informant/council, or some combination of all that. I guess this is all to say Tian has to be responsible and trustworthy, since King X generally uses him as a messenger lol.
After finishing Mikhail’s piece I was really motivated to get some more work done... except maybe with a simpler painting style. At that point in time, I was gonna be moving towns again -- if I couldn’t finish it in a few days, I probably wasn’t gonna finish it for another month. I also started seeing noticeable chromatic aberration in some new photo filters that seemed popular lately, so I figured “Why not do a small study using the effect?”
And so I did. \(ovo)/ After trying everything out on other drafts first, of course. (Like the last image for example. I tested the effect in Photoshop on that.)
I spent some hours trying to dress him up while wondering why it looked strange (hint: the proportions are off...) He already had a main outfit designed for him, but because I was initially working with a dark blue background at the time, I couldn’t use it... Thoug, in the end, I cropped the whole thing and deleted the BG lmao. And for aaaaaall the time I spent on his hair, I still don’t really like the result. (=u=;;; ) It seems I forgot simplicity was key here.
A number of things are still “bleh” but that’s fine.... Lesson learned. Main Objective achieved. We know what to work on next. d^^
