Progress - How I Got To This Point:

Progress - How I got to this point:

Progress - How I Got To This Point:

Step 1 is a thumbnail. A really quick (30 seconds max) really small (3 x 5 cm; that’s actually too big for an actual thumbnail but pssssht) doodle of what the drawing might look like. I'll often do multiple of them per drawing, trying out different poses and angles.

Step 2 is an anatomical and perspective sketch. I took some reference photos of myself to test out poses. It lended up looking way too stiff (as my initial sketches often do, this is my least favourite step). Also, I decided I wanted Isa to look down.

Step 3 was new for me. I was stuck in a place with only post-its and a pen, so I redrew the picture from memory, focussing more on the flow, but with the anatomy and perspective cues I still had in mind from step 2. This worked SUPER well and I think this will be my new MO from now on. So I guess that makes Step 2 a study actually? Wow, using studies in my art, that sounds so professional.

Progress - How I Got To This Point:

Step 4 is a big step. I took a photo of step 3 and then worked over it digitally. I worked out the final pose I wanted (mix between step 2 and 3), took some new reference photos, played around with the pattern in the background and the flow. Then I printed it (in twice the size I usually work with) and finally …

Step 5 I traced the printed sketch on the paper I want to use for the colours. This step alone took over TWO HOURS and I fixed some details (like correcting tangents) while working on it. Usually I trace only very lightly, often in a pencil that will smudge into the colours. I don't like working with actual lines, I only add them at the very end of a drawing. But this was when I realized I will have to post the WIP and in order for you to see anything at all I jumped over my shadow and drew over the lines again with different pencils (ranging from scale B to 3H). Which took another 1 1/2 hours. Oof.

And that’s where we are now! <3 Next up is colour, but I won’t get to that anytime soon unfortunately :(

A Pencil drawing of adult Lea and Isa from Kingdom Hearts. It's drawn in a style inspired by Alfons Mucha's famous Art Nouveau lithographs. Lea is sitting on a heavily stylized little tree, Isa kneels over him, one knee between Lea's legs, and holds Lea to his chest, Lea holds onto Isa's waist. Isa looks down in Lea's direction with a content expression, Lea looks straight to the viewer with a smug smile. Lea and Isa both only wear loose pants, no shirts or shoes. A long shawl is wound around their bodies in the air, not touching them. Important detail: The shawl also flows between Isa's legs. :D The long, thin tree branches also wind their way up in the background, finally forming a circle behind Isa's head. The background (behind the tree) is divided into multiple areas of different, flowing shapes. The flow of movement in the picture creates a zigzag route for the eyes to follow.

@akusaimonth​ 2022

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