Afterhours

Been looking forward to posting this one ever since I finished it, which was a while ago now. Since her first pic was full frontal, I thought Id do a back view for the 2nd one.

I wanted this to be sort of a follow up to that, with her wearing a similar outfit with the dress and glasses, just later into the night, and with an indoors setting. I did add stockings because she looked too "nude" with bare legs, and they worked so well composition wise, pushing your eyes to one of main focuses of the pic.

And yeah you can already see some differences compared to the first one with her design. For starters the colors are much more accurate here. In the first pic the hair was too yellow when its supposed to be more of an ash blonde, with black tips (which looked purple before), the lips were also too dark although I might vary that a bit from pic to pic depending on what she is wearing.

And more importantly I completely changed the ears because the original idea I had wasnt really working. I realized I much prefer pointy ones more like something between a cat and a fox so thats what I went with. Ive done a couple more pics of her now and yeah, it works really well.

One other detail I love that was also in the first pic but is much more noticeable here is the tan lines. Its one of those things I couldnt really do with my au ra because she is too pale to have any so Im glad I can now. Its especially fun doing it with a back view because you can really play around with the shape of it, both at the top and bottom.

Ive also noticed I really liked drawing her against backgrounds with a lot of green so thats something you can expect to see more (until I get bored and wanna try something else). In this case its also because of her nails barely being visible since her hands is mostly hidden, so I cant really rely on that green for the contrast I want. They will be a lot more noticeable in future pics since its something Ive been careful with when picking poses and such.

The biggest struggle with this pic was getting the right mood though. I wanted to have that low light, "sensual" mood of late night but without making things too dark, and also without relying on light from a window or so, which always makes things much harder with the way I color (since it requires the character to be in shadow for it to look good). In the end I did manage to do something Im happy with, with the light hitting her from above giving it a really strong mood.

Anyway yeah thats about it for this one. As usual Im a few drawings ahead so I have already made some other changes but Ill talk about them with the respective posts. Ive been spending way too long on her pics but Im having a lot of fun with it so I guess thats the most important part. Ive always loved the concept/character design stage of drawing the most so thats no surprise.

Next post will be a certain upcoming Star Rail character that Im pretty hyped about. Ive been wanting to draw her pretty much since I started playing the game so Im glad I finally did, especially with how good her new form looks. "Please look forward to it".

And since the next post wont be until the 29th, happy holidays to everyone.