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A follow-up to Gojyo and Sanzo, yo.
So you've made breakfast, tidied up, done the dishes, and just sat down with a nice hot cup of coffee when someone is seized with the urge to drip wet hair in your lap. Do you A) Whack with a rolled-up newspaper? B) Give him five seconds, then dump it over his head? C) Rend horribly and with violent satisfaction? D) Inform Sanzo that Gojyo used up the last of the beer and cigarettes before he bothered to get out of bed? E) Smile cheerily and contemplate all of the above? It's up in the air, really. Usually Hakkai is by far the least likely to attempt to kill his teammates, but that's just another way of saying he's by far the most likely to succeed. And remember, he hasn't had his coffee yet. Poor Gojyo. This is probably the longest-taking picture I have ever done. I started it around the time I finished Sanzo and Gojyo, so... two years? More? All of that was time well-spent, though. I like how it turned out. Even though it probably doesn't have enough orange. Oh, since I drew it in Paint (colored in the GIMP), the fullview shows it in full size, which is ridiculously big, but it looks sucky any other way. Yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill. |
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A couple small exceptions to the excellent anatomy are the top of Hakkai's head, which looks to broad and flat, and his left hand (on our right), which looks kind of small. Also, if Gojyo just got out of the shower with dripping hair, he should look more wet.
As a final note, the toothbrush is a nice touch. The bg pattern and gradient are pretty without distracting from the characters.
Two years, huh? Even I don't...well except for the latest Haku comic I don't take that long between starting and finishing a drawing. XD (The time between an idea occuring and a drawing being finished could potentially be much longer, however.) But I'm glad you finished it.
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"You know, it's economical not to have a plot, because then you can just film people saying things."
-MST3K
I wondered if Hakkai's hair had lopsidedness problems when it started looking weird to me in the mirror-image test. But by that time I liked it and didn't want to deal with changing it.
The expressions were probably the hardest part. In the first sketch draft Gojyo had this horrible leer XD XD of the frighten-small-children variety, so I'm glad I sat down and thought it out and fixed the picture.
I did expressions first though, so by far most of the two years was figuring out where Hakkai's arms were (that's probably where his hand got disproportionate) and coloring and shading and bleh. I like the sort of cell shading I did on the skin tones, but I also like the realistic reflections on the porcelain and the sheen of Gojyo's hair. Do cell shading and realistic shading belong in the same picture? Maybe not. But it was fun.
There expressions are great now. I think Gojyo now has a sort of endearing leer, with an air of gentleness to it, even. At any rate, I like it.
There's no jarring contrast between the cell shading and realistic shading, so I say keep using whatever shading you feel like.
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"You know, it's economical not to have a plot, because then you can just film people saying things."
-MST3K
Ahhhhfacesaresocute
And anatomy/angles=excellent!
*girlish giggles*
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Dad: When traveling North, you tend to lose a lot of spoons.
Me: What?! Why is that?
Dad: I donno. Maybe because when traveling South, you tend to find a lot of spoons.
I must be doing something right if it can still appeal to people who aren't really fans of the techniques I used. (Which I totally understand. Sketchy lines and plain gradient fills are a weird combination to start with. Eventually I'd like to be drawing the love child of oekaki and watercolors.)
I like to make fun of Paint, but it's actually sort of fun to play in it. The forced simplicity removes the sense of pressure.
Thanks for the compliments on expression and anatomy! <3 <3 <3 :3
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dreams are the fighters of tomorrow
I think we both enjoyed it.
Although after a while I could no longer tell if that was a genuine smile or a homicidal one.
You're welcome, no problem. How DO you draw like that in paint, btw? It must be with a tablet, right? Because a plain old mouse would never be able to make lineart like that.
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Dad: When traveling North, you tend to lose a lot of spoons.
Me: What?! Why is that?
Dad: I donno. Maybe because when traveling South, you tend to find a lot of spoons.
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