architect(s)

creation date: sept 23

characters featured: saparata, fluixon (state 2.5)

the first illust of them i did after i finished the reference sheets :3

the way i do lasso tool art is that i start with a bright singular color as a backdrop and then use lasso tool at 30% opacity to add my base colors atop, then colorpick what comes out. what happens is that my colors get harmonized to the background, kinda tricky thou when ur an indecisive bastard like me and end up changing that background color midway thru rendering 😀. for this particular illust, i started drawing saps with an orange background, then later decided i wanted a blue background... and so there became this issue where i had already rendered saps who now has a kind of orange glow, and then i was rendering flux on a blue background which gave HIM a colder feel. i was able to successfully paint over everything to look cohesive later on, but if you zoom into flux's hair and saps' sleeve, the original background colors become reaally obvious. the end result is flux looking very painterly and saps looking more cel-shaded D:

there is also some mild perspective on this one, i used a grid but didn't double check whether it was lined up correctly or not pfft... it could have been pushed more but in general i really like how it looks! it's been a while since i've drawn anything w a background in it and even if it's simple it does a lot i think! actually, the most difficult part of this one was making sure u could tell flux was looking down at the blueprints. for some reason i had an issue where he kept looking cross-eyed D: i redid his eyes so many times for this one aghkkk... where r u looking bro? oh nowhere just the blueprints to ur house that im going to sabotage to kill all the world leaders with huh i mean what