at the risk of sounding like a Very Hurt Person ill be frank. Seto Kaiba being set up as a traumatized, mentally ill kid with PTSD, who had to cope alone and heal alone and bury his past and reinvent himself, proving to and deeply convincing himself that he can do anything in the process, resulting in this narcissistic double ended blade persona, which, narratively speaking, only gets stomped on, by the good guys, antagonized, by the good guys, and as the Merciful course of action the good guys: Force Him Back Into Accepting And Becoming His Past Self (literally cant imagine a worse fate for anyone who had to erase their past and remake themselves tbh) With Its Past Loves And Past Hurts:
this shit suck lol
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For the art trademark thing - for sure your usage of pencil/watercolor brushes !! And the way you use rather pastel-y and light colors too. It gives your art a very soft feel, it reminds me of old video game art in a way ^_^
Ohh thanks for pointing that out. That was what I was going for (and also manga coloring)!
Tbh I've always been told I tend to use pastel/soft colors, even if unintentionally. In truth I don't actually think much of what colors to use - I often just go with what's easy on the eye (would say this as a joke but my eyesight isn't exactly great).
Similar story for shading/lighting. One thing I noticed is how most artists tend to just, not color some parts on purpose so as create the illusion of lighting.
So I figured, why not try that?
If you'd like some of the inspirations for this:
(Shinkiro, The King of Fighters '94)
(Ayami Kojima, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance)
(Yoshitaka Amano, Final Fantasy III)
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I think my best advice to anyone practicing art is to be intentional in your practice, if you do have a specific goal in mind that is. Like you think you want your art to have the features of [x] artists, you want to understand anatomy, you want to understand other things. Then you have to draw and observe, and correct, and work your way up that ladder.
At the end of the day, you will still be left with a style that is most likely still distinctly "you;" but you may find that these quirks of "you" can be something you grow to like!
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initial drafts of this
(tbh these aren't really accurate to my process bc i didn't take screenshots as i worked, i went all the way to the color test THEN went back and turned off the layers of various stages for these drafts)
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i have a new theory for aru sekai fans & by new i mean someone else might have caught on already but i havent seen it said SO. the rute furutewoa melody is in kyuuyaku, touhikou, & now kannagi (maybe elsewhere bc i havent been looking for this motif before i only realized it today really & i havent had time to go thru all the songs again yet) & we have kyuu (past), something in touhikou im too tired to remember currently but i remember calling something similar a while ago when someone asked if there was a timeline to this, and now kannagi that uses the older language so im willing to bet this motif is a way of saying the events in the song happened in the "past". whether thats actually Long Ago or just to say its not the current situation or just happened before the songs without it i cant say for sure but i think it makes sense given what we have now.
just like we have the nami no ne no motif that signals which characters still have their "self" if its in the song or lost it if its not.
i have to do some more digging of course but with what i know right now this makes the most sense to me
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