Lore: KiriDeku Fantasy Zine
Happy birthday Deku-kun! May your romance with your unicorn bae still be blooming and thriving!
...Oh, none of y'all know what I'm talking about? Well, I'm talking about the AU I drew about for the Lore: KiriDeku Fantasy Zine (and wrote about--although all of those things can be seen for free here.)
I'm still very proud of these pieces! As of late, I've been forcing myself to do what I've always avoided doing--that is, incorporating the background design into the overall composition. Like, I've had the capability (separate from execution) but I preferred characters over backgrounds so I constantly shied away from it. But for this zine, which was the first for-profit one I ever got into, I wanted to put in all 200% and then some.
One part of this experience I will never forget though is how I learned the very hard way about CYMK profiles on Procreate on the iPad. That is, don't. Don't use them. It doesn't actually support that. It just has a RBG profile that estimates a CYMK profile. The big problem here is that you'll be working on Procreate, making pretty colors and stuff. But then you'll export it like me and it'll come out desaturated as hell. The final colors you see here was a lot of color adjustment I had to do on Clip Studio Paint afterwards and ohhhhhhhhhhh did I stress out a ton because I had a very strong vision for colors in this piece too!!
Anyway. I love these pieces and I hope to be doing more and more of these! Good practice makes good art, you know? I know I am capable of art like this, and I know I can get better... so I shouldn't avoid it!
Also also also I am proud of these because these are the first most serious pieces I ever completed on Procreate XD I don't know why I like to give myself challenges at the most inopportune times. I mean, again, I'm proud of my work, but hahaha, learning how to paint for the first time on Procreate with new brushes was sure a wild ride...
Last but not least, I think I will offer these as prints someday soon! More about it in a bigger post later!