Konnichiwa minna-san today's Sunday, so how are you doing? Well, this day is particularly a rollercoaster ride of emotions, and before I could puke my sense out, I tried to regain it by drawing my frustrations away. I usually just draw when I'm finished watching a certain anime movie or series, so now that I've finished watching another season of Ao no Exorcist, I'm again on the brink of boredom. Not the boredom because I have nothing to do for honestly I still have a lot of stuff to do, but since it's Sunday I want to procrastinate and lay low for now.
It was almost 1:00 P.M when I woke up again (don't judge me yet, I woke up at 3:00 A.M and after doing some house chores I slept again at 11:45), and after eating my lunch I decided to browse my phone and eventually I decided to clean and delete old screenshots. I was going through them when a certain screenshot of a base reference caught my eye. It's from a FB reel I came across months ago, and upon seeing it, an urge to draw a fanart came to me! And of 'course it will be inspired by the recent anime series I just watched~
I started drawing at 2:00 P.M and it ended almost at 5:00 P.M. It wasn't a total static drawing because I do get easily bored so there are times I stopped to lay down, stay still, draw another doodle, read a book, sing and dance and many more. I've been restless lately, and doing single stuff usually won't do me good—so I multitask. And before I get lost in my trail of thoughts, I just wanna share with you a brief wrap-up of my two-hour drawing process...Ikuzo!
First, my messy sketch—I always start my drawings with the usual unreliable sketches which were usually far from what I imagined.
Then, I tried to somehow make a cleaner one, which turned out as a mess as well.
I tried again, and I'm somehow satisfied with how Rin turned out. However, as for Yukio... I'm frustrated. I stopped for a while to do other stuff and clear out my frustrations.
After some minutes, I went back and attempted to draw his hands, but it seemed my hand wouldn't cooperate with my imagination, so I just found another way to draw them.
Finally, Yukio looked decent enough for me, so I rested and did other stuff again before proceeding to the next stage—the part that I somehow dreaded doing—the coloring!
I started coloring the hair and clothes, then later on, some of the background which I also somehow messed up.
Then after coloring most of them, I decided to color their skin.
I attempted to give them juicy lips by adding a hint of red on it, but I ended up overdoing it so I just erased them seconds later lol
Since I'm lazy, I just used markers to color the rest of the uncolored spaces.
It definitely still didn't look right, so I added more details with a white pen. After finishing it, I tore up the masking tape which I expected would protect the other side, but unfortunately, it didn't.
Anyway, what's done is done, so that's it! Here's the finished look~
Btw, in case you're curious about the base reference I've used—honestly, I'm not really familiar with the artist since I just came across it on FB, but anyway, I searched the original artist and it's from jangsa_kk. By and by, that's all for now minna! Hopefully I can make the review for their season 4 soon, so until then, see you around (｡•̀ᴗ-)ﾉ✧
The first picture was edited in Canva, while the rest of the pictures used were taken by yours truly, ridgette. On the other hand, the gif at the end was generated by imageflip.