I originally drew and posted these images back in April during the actual event, but I just got a bit too preoccupied to log my post over here... Better late than never I suppose. Especially since the VOD upload are nearing its end, it’s kinda relevant. Either way, these were my drawing of the roster from the TRG Colosseum 2020.
It was definitely fun to think of creative poses for everyone, especially for the ones who I’d never drawn before. With a few exceptions, I had a design previously created for everyone in the top three images. For those cases, I would reference back to my older images and improve as necessary. In particular, I like the new hair design that I made for Chugga and NCS.
The remaining four images contained people who I had to craft designs for from scratch. It was a challenge to makes appealing designs for each of the musicians as I chose not to draw their instruments. Because of this choice, the posing now comes off as a little “stiffer” than I initially desire. Although, I feel like my art style adds a bit of a “cute/charming” flavor to them that redeems the stiffness in my eyes. Specifically, I’m proud of how Adriana, Toxic, and Sab turned out along with the 8-Bit pairing.
I like the variety of colors I used across each person. I chose not to do much in the way of color shading mostly due to time restraints, though I was also running low on certain colors towards about the middle of the roster. Overall, my coloring could have been a bit more solid, but at least it did work to make the image more visually interesting when scanning through everyone.
I initially wanted to draw this piece digitally, though I’d been out-of-practice using my tablet for some time due to prioritizing other life matter. Hopefully by next colosseum I’ll be able to support the event with something new. At least their was a definite skill increase in comparison to my sketches for the event from last year.
In the meantime, I have been making some sketches for a digital fan art piece that relates to someone from the colosseum. A part of it should be posted soon.
