This made me laugh way harder than morally acceptable hahahaha. I am sorry anon friendā¦ hereās a drawing of korrasami being a power couple, to compensate for your troubles lol
Iām working on a new riso zine! This one will be about convergent evolution!
The cover shows off a bunch of different times opposable thumbs have evolved in the animal kingdom (specifically, mammals.) Primates are most well known for having thumbs, but other animals, like the Virginia opossum (back paw), giant panda, red panda, koala, and pencil-tailed tree mouse (back paw), also evolved some good grabby grabbers! The really cool thing is that giant pandas and red pandas arenāt actually related to each other (giant panda is a basal bear, red panda belongs to its own group calledĀ ailuridae) but BOTH evolvedĀ āthumbsā in a unique way by using a wrist bone instead of a finger bone. This is because both animals primarily eat bamboo, and that sorta hand shape is perfect for gripping onto bamboo!
Evolution is neat!!!!!
Iāll hopefully have these zines ready by VanCAF.
Like some of the other prompts, I canāt possibly choose a favorite scene or retort in this series that holds some of my favorite scenes and retorts in all of literature. But I hadnāt drawn Costis yet and Iāve always wanted to attempt this moment.
I went through several sketch iterations to get here. First I threw together an inspiration board and proceeded to completely ignore the color scheme I created:
Then I blocked out a rough sketch of the action:
Ā I liked the body language here, but Genās movement isnāt all that believable, and overall it felt too stagnant. So I tried again, tilting things a little for a low-horizon perspective:
Drawing this sketch made me remember that IĀ h aT .eĀ drawing foreshortened perspective, so even though the position is more dynamic, I changed it up again and went with more of an angled view:
There! That sketch felt a lot better, and it gave me the opportunity to make full use of rim and bounce light, because Iām Trash for rim and bounce light.
I blocked in my values (first in green, like an idiot):
Then drew my lineart (with an 8-pt charcoal brush or some foolery, I canāt remember):
Laid down my color base:
And then it was just refining and squinting at my color balancer and doing fun details like earrings and stubble and flying sweat.Ā
I should note that this is decidedly more involved than I usually get with my piecesānormally Iām doing well if I bother to do a value sketch at all, never mind multiple perspectives and an inspiration board. But I wanted to get this scene right and give it the energy it deserved. Also Gen has Kaz Brekker hair and Iām not sure how that happened, but weāre going with it, whatever.Ā
Last day of QT Appreciation Week is tomorrow, and itās a free for all! Go, ye masters of foolhardy plans, go!
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