#his pants are like those engineer pants with reinforced kneepads and lots of pockets

[machidielontheway]

“Ryou offered a hand to help Matt up, then half dragged him out the door.” 

From For All The World, ch.4, by @bosstoaster

[ID : a black lineart drawing of two characters from the tv show Voltron Legendary Defenders. A grinning Ryou Shirogane with white hair is running towards the left of the picture. With his prosthetic right arm behind him he is gripping and dragging in the air Matt Holt, whose limbs are in disarray. Matt looks both surprised and annoyed. The background is a light purple gradient and ground shadows of the characters. /End ID]

Ramblings under the cut !

Sooo this drawing is born of : 1) instant imagery reading the quote, which made me very merry. Is being half dragged different than pulled through the air ? yes, but it’s funny so who cares

2) i have so, so much ideas of things i want to draw, and neither the energy nor the drive. But i’d like them to exist, especially as the voltron fandom will not exist forever. Because one of my hang ups that saps my energy before i draw is “Things Take Too Long” i thought that maybe i could try make things not be long, if i made it easier. a. in terms of planning / roughs i definitively found the way it works best for me as of now, and it makes the whole process easier and more interesting (less grueling) b. chibis ! over simplified forms ! their arms should have been like, floppy rectangles. the idea was to let go of perfection and by this i mean accurate anatomy (yes i know to draw good chibis you actually need to be good at anatomy. jokes on you i don’t do either)

Ryou... DID begin as more simplified than i would do. his face took me a whopping 2mn. but you can see as i finished drawing him that already i wasn’t doing it really well (altho his legs have been lengthened only at the very end when Matt looked taller than him. rip)

I’m very into Matt right now and couldn’t not try to make him pretty. His hair took me an hour and many, many ctrl+Z. But the good thing is at this point i didn’t care anymore about whatever and just drew. Rough shape was done, Ryou (i’m so sorry bby i keep writing Shiro) was done quick so it gave me a bit of satisfaction and i actually liked drawing the whole Matt i think. ALSO LOOK I DREW ALL THE FEET AND 3/4 HANDS.

tl:dr : - is the anatomy fucked up ? YES ! - is the style inconsistent ? YES ! - did i manage to stop myself to beautify ryou after matt was done, in the name of finishing something ? YES !

did it : - remind me that actually if i go at it with a mindset of ‘it’s ok if it sucks anatomically’ i spend less time overthinking it for basically the same results ? YES ! - gave me more motivation for future drawing knowing i can put stuff out there without months of procrastinating ? YES ! - enable me to draw a piece in one (1) week, and be reasonably happy about it ? YEAH !!

no ryou does not have eyebrows shhhh

#machdraws #ryou shirogane #matt holt #voltron #kuron #please view it in bigger by clicking on it ! #don't remember if ryou has an altean-altean prosthetic #or 'general alien engineering' #so i just had quick fun with it #his pants are like those engineer pants with reinforced kneepads and lots of pockets #except i only drew one pocket. apparently #matt wasn't supposed to look taller than ryou so i had to readjust ryou's legs #love matt's rebel outfit so i just did whatever with it keeping the recognisable bits #he was supposed to have the tiny ponytail...until i spend one hour on his hair and abandonned #i hesitated for a long time for matt's expression #eyes no eyes blank glasses eyebrows no eyebrows #i liked blank glasses no eyebrows but i couldn't be sure it would translate well #to somebody who hasn't looked at it for hours already #i didn't make him very muscly because i default to noodle when drawing #and the rough map of him was very noodly so it was harder to add more meat after #i really like the angle of his legs and his left shoe #i'm quite happy with the background #i always try once i'm done with the drawing and the waste hours for nothing #cause it doesn't look really good so i scrape it #but just blank bg is not always good either #here it has a good balance i think of giving a bit mor depth and highliting the important part #like matt's face. #now i can go back to my other current wip that i had completely forgot #current as in 'we're doing 2018 ideas' #that i still want to do today