OH HAI YOW Anime Fans! I'm back again for my monthly Fanart post. I was actually worried that I won't be able to draw or post one this month because I've been busy attending trading lessons which started last month and applying it on a live account. Maybe I'll write a post about it someday.

Anyways, there's a lot of good Animes coming back this year and one of them just started its new season and that is Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. I am a fan of the anime and rewatched it several times 😅. I also had drawn a lot of fanarts of it. Actually, this is the fourth time that I've drawn Frieren and definitely wont be the last 😂. The recent one was the Look up Challenge where you draw her while looking up or at an angle where the camera is looking up on the character. This is my attempt Here👈

I heard some feedbacks of the show that they don't like it because the first few episodes were slow for them. But for me, the slow pace, the cinematography plus the music makes it very calming. Aside from that, I also like the story and from the beginning it shows you the significance of time from the perspective of each characters. Even her apprentice(FERN) was worried on how they can stay on a place for months and it is a recurring theme or concept that they even made a joke out of it in the latest episode (Season 2 Episode 5).

Now let's proceed with the art process.

PROCESS

Started with a very rough sketch, just a general idea on how I want her pose looks like and the flow of the fabric/clothes. The sketch is not very detailed because I want to refine the character as I paint it and I will be using just one layer for the character.

As you can see here, I just lowered the opacity of the sketch and started painting the character like what I visualized on my head. You can also see that I already painted the general area of the shadows on the character.

I started rendering the hair and her thighs here. I also refined her hands and added the top part of her staff.

After that I painted her eyes, nose, and mouth and didn't add much detail on her eyes yet. I started adding some details on her clothes and her earrings.

I painted the staff, added some details on it and started refining the eyes.

After more refinement on the character, I painted the background and added the flower petals.

Actually the previous Image was the first version of this artwork. I thought it was already looking good, but I realized that the lighting was all over the place and the hair near her cheeks was too long so I had to render everything all over again. I also forgot to render the garment underneath her cloak or cape and it was the last part that I had to add inorder to finish this artwork.

TIMELAPSE

I really had fun making this fanart and enjoyed each steps of it. Trusting the process and believing on your skills. And even though I made some mistakes, I'm glad I was able to fix it easily. I also want to do more of this style in the future.

Thanks for your time and I hope you enjoyed reading!
And before I hibernate again, I'll leave this quote from the anime.

"Treasure the people you meet. Death is not the only bringer of Final Farewells" -Wirbel

Tools:

Clip Studio Paint
Wacom Intous Draw
Duration: 9 Hours. Yay! sub 10 accomplished 😆

A Journey of Time: Frieren Fanart + timelapse

PROCESS

TIMELAPSE