I'VE WANTED TO DO THIS FOR A WHILE BUT I'VE BEEN SO BUSY (screw you life)
honestly this was fun to do, im so glad i did it
Idol! Killer & Idol Au by @zucchiyeni
Pov, you're sitting in the front row and Killer is looking directly at you.
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Idol Au/Idol Killer belongs to @zucchiyeni
Killer belongs to @/rahafwabas
Initial pose and lineart below
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Made it just in time for the DTIYS from @zucchiyeni ^^
I had gone out of my comfort zone and tried out a lot of new things in this 👀 esp since I used ibis on phone for this with my stylus XD
Attempted to do more of a soft shading, finer lineart, clothing creases, dynamic pose/perspective, hard light (I tried LOL), shadows and a new skull shape. Think it went pretty well 👀
I literally have 400+ layers and spent 28 hours on this LMAO
HOPE U LIKE IT ✨✨ ^^
Anyways, here was the initial pose I had done before I wanted to make it more dynamic and stuff. And the lineart since its barely noticeable in the actual art
design credits:
dust by @safwunsies
nightmare by @justanidiotartist
horror by @westaysilly
killer by @zucchiyeni
timelapse & ramblings under the cut
i tried to put this in the tags but it was way too long
so here are my.... ramblings? design notes? process? watever it is it's here now
killer is the one i changed the least, even the pose is pretty much the same
i kept the asymetrical design from the dtiys (w/ one sleeve rolled up & only one shoulder w/ spikes)
for the shoes i kinda went watever & put the spikes in the middle (i bet you it caused some of the holes in his jeans)
i like to think he chose blue soles bc he did a collab w/ nightmare so that he's not the only one w/ cool colors
his main color is still red, but i made the leather, t-shirt, metal & jeans blue-ish as a complementary color
for nightmare, i don't even know if his design is canon, but when i saw that the murder time trio did collabs w/ him i knew i had to draw it
i didn't touch the base design itself but i switched the colors around a lot bc i really didn't know how to make it work w/ the rest of the characters
i kept the base palette (blue/cyan, purple & pink) but had purple as a main & cyan as an accent color (pink itself is only there in the glitter)
also yeah i put the glitter on his coat instead of his tentacles cuz i wanted to show his bones & tentacles are made/covered in the same goopy stuff, and the glitter kinda went in the way of that
i like that his colors are really different from the other & you can tell he goes solo while they're in a band, but i think it's not too distracting
horror is my favorite, like he's just enjoying himself in the back
its kinda sad i had to hide him behing both his drums & killer, i might post a version w/out it to show it off
the drums were a pain in the ass ngl, i've never played them so i had to look at a lot of references
in the end i just drew a basic drum set w/ the colors on the ref (red & gold), i added silver for the metal bits bc it's everywhere in the other's designs
his design itself is unchanged, i just thought having him in red only felt boring so i added orange to his fur & shirt
i realized too late i couldn't show dust's head w/ the pose i drew T-T
also drew his entire outfit then had to hide half of it because of his guitare
this is why planning is important people
his guitare rocks tho (pun intended)
i tried to make him red & purple to match his eyes, but currently it's more of an orange salmon color w/ a dark grey pink
eeeh the intent is there i guess
i made his gloves fingerless cuz you can't tell me this dude plays guitare w/ full on gloves
like i know they're skeletons but that's physically impossible
i also added a strap to his guitare cuz unless he's using blue magic, he probably can't keep it up w/ only his right hand