I just binged the Shadow house manga and god I love this story so much. The environmental story telling is just wonderful and I love the mystery, every detail has a purpose and god I just love it so much.
Personally John is my favorite character and maybe one day I’ll get around to drawing him and Shaun, but I love Kate and Emilyko’s designs too much not to draw them first.
[Please don’t repost my art]
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the shadow and her living doll 🌹🌼 print for montreal otakuthon! come see me at next week from aug 11-13 ✌
you can grab it as a print here if you so wish ! WIPs & other thoughts under the cut
shadows house is such a fantastic series & i wholeheartedly recommend it... the story delves into super dark horror elements but doesn't present itself as a story with no hope. hope must be found and then tenaciously gripped with all one's heart, much like pandora's box. it tickles the victorian gothic part of my brain forever imprinted on me since i was 14 haha...
in the first draft i had marionette strings hanging above the characters (kinda reminds me of Erased.. since I just finished rewatching that ahaha...) & shadow puppet hands on the sides, almost as if gripping each character. i decided against it in the end, to let the characters shine in the spotlight (literally).
i also wanted a more active or lively pose, but kept in line with the stiff victorian portrait style, caused by long camera exposure times. i'm not sure if that worked out better bc i'm unsure if this drawing is interesting to people wahahaha.
initially i also wanted more of a dollhouse theme, but each draft got more and more muddy, so i decided to save it for another day (i'm around ch 90 in the manga, so probably a good call to save a more complex idea until i'm all caught up)
^ quick 5 min style test i posted recently! in that post i stated that i wanted to streamline and simplify my art style more, especially after the recent bunch of illustrations i did in the past winter that took way too long to complete, at the sake of my health.
im continually looking for areas to simplify more in my art, but one of the areas i will NOT skimp on is depicting fabric!!!!!
what also helped was working on my sense of structure in my spare time, so that i could be better at depicting form without relying so much on shading to show 3d forms. i love colouring, but i need to be working smarter, not harder from now on. using 100000 shades and highlights is just not feasible anymore wahaha.
in this drawing i loosened up with the bg and kept it rough, inspired by the wonderful xeroxed bgs of 101 dalmatians, and only implied details, rather than actually rendering all of them.
the tldr is that i draw too slowly i just would like to be able to make more drawings more often!!
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" I want to know exactly what I am."
Here's a Kate illustration I made for a Shadows House zine
It is supposed to show all the things that Kate worries about every day, and all the people she wants to save
close ups under read more
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Best Fictional Duos
Limited to my screenshots pt 2
6. Gaap Goemon & Agares Picero - Mairimashita! Iruma-kun
7. Luck Voltia & Magna Swing - Black Clover
8. Andro M. Jazz & Allocer Schneider - Mairimashita! Iruma-kun
9. Uno & Jyugo - Nanbaka
10. Kate & Emilyko - Shadows House
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being a Face for someone sounds so fun. just shutting off your mind entirely to mimic their actions and mirror their body perfectly. forgetting your personality while you make yourself their canvas for conversation.... and then interacting with others again on your own as though the actions you just mimicked had nothing to do with you. it's just your job afterall
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