another art trade. this was the first one i started and the second one i finished. its olewic_'s character on instagram.

i think its ok. again, the hair made me want to kill myself. i just dont know how to make it flowy or nice hahah. i think i should stop using a pixelated brush cause they come out looking so crunchy when its at a big size lmao.

a sort of "inspiration" for this were that sort of 2000s manga style shading that had been on my mind where they shade light colored skin with orange-ish hues. i quite like the look of those, but mine turned out more brown probably cause of my usual style loll. i also used yellow on the edges to made the transition smoother, as well as just cause it made it look more as if it was a fucked up photo of a manga cover and the yellow was a compressing artifact from the years of jpeging this image hypothetically went through. of course it doesnt look a lot like the source material i was drawing from, but i like what i tried to do nonetheless.

workin on the khaki shorts was fun. should have picked a more contrasting color to shade with, maybe used a yellower color to highlight parts to make it less flat but i enjoy doing tight clothing folds some of the time. the strings from the layer under i just gave up lol, was finished with the character and wanted to start on the background.

background was also fun to do. used the same paper texture as i did in art trade #1 but just overlayed it on top of a blue gradient. a copy of the character was flipped and inlarged and i put some screen or color dodge or whatever blend mode and shoved it in the back cause it resulted in pleasant colors. the flowers are all seperate ijmages i put in because i thought it look nice. biggest regret is probably making on eof the peonies orange--thought it would add nice contrast with the teal and blue, but it kinda just looks out of place, especially being at the edge. oh well, if i dont think about it too hard i dont care that much lololol

p.s. "63fruits" is just my instagram handle and i just put it in because it elavated the feel of the art i think. also i think it needed some space filler. the other text are just bladee lyrics from his song wett (water2) cause i wanted some text again LOLL