In making Xerxes still look attractive but non-human at first glance, and also for some visual interest while he's naked, he gets to have an interesting marking all over his neck now lol. My joke of him being Mr. Diamonds is pretty much defining his design lmao
which means I have to implement a particular method for making the dark parts of their outfits stand out since their faces and dark-clothed arms will be against his neck and such
and which means I don't have to have him wearing that hood for the sake of coloring 'weight' (I needed something completely black on him for his neck scarf thing to not look silly lol)
do you know how hard that hood thing he was wearing was to color even though it was like three colors. Thin markings + this tiny tablet + this relatively big screen + my shaky-ass hands = let's just say, "very difficult" lmao
Side notes: I'm doing my best to update the last two pages of AoB with this new design right now, and to upload the rest of M+M Vol.1 and AoB #1 onto the website by tonight. Stay tuned for updates here and on the official MM Tumblr / Twitter!