Haru Ichiban's Blog - Posts Tagged "jason"

When I saw this pic scanned, I almost screamed. The scanner absolutely butchered 90% of the icy blue tones in it! I need to redo this so they show up (somehow). Anyway…
Jason’s turn! Obviously, together with Lei should have come Sween, but the pose I want for her (which I already did, but botched it) will probably require a bit more nimbleness in my skills. It is a very hard pose… Anyway.
Jason is a secondary but recurring character in the Forbidden series. He’s the same race and rank as Sween (though he’s much older and experienced) so he also has a very childish personality, though in his case it’s better concealed. But he loves to play superhero! That should tell you a thing or two.
Observing Jason, I noticed he actually has a quite rigid posture. He needs to loosen up more! So not the best subject for making fluid poses.
About Jason… well, I merely described him as wearing a gothic outfit (to match his gothic looks), so I was wondering if to make a stylish one or a sexy one. But sexy is not his kind’s style: they are pretty, cute, beautiful and such, but I guess the sexy stuff is better reserved for humans and demons. Just a bit of flesh isn’t bad, though.

The specifics:
• Time taken: Approximately five and half hours. Discount one hour where I cooked, ate, washed the dishes and checked the mail. I am not counting here all the time I needed to get Jason in a relaxed pose (two hours, including massage).
• Media used: color pencils and black pen with some micromarker and pencil, some pastel. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
• 30-day trial: Day 2/30, July 6th 2018
• Technical notes to self: That pastel sucks, too bad I gave two bags to charity last week and could have donated this as well. I wonder if it’s cuz it’s old? But then again, the Caran d’Ache I have is ancient and doesn’t have that problem. Winter colors depress me.

Okay, so this is the first illustration for the Angel Power Compendium, the attack magic Jason used in day 3. I was right in fearing doing this, the pose is difficult as hell and the light from the floor looks too thick. When I get to the actual compendium page I'm gonna give it a revamp, but today I ran out of time. Doing a pic a day may be good practice, but it also means not doing the best if the pic takes a lot of time... But to be honest, I was a little tired. It seems four days drawing and painting for hours in a row is my wellbeing limit at this moment.

The specifics:
•Time taken: I can't specify it this time...
•Media used: Watercolor pencils and pencil. Warm white 75 grams watercolor paper.
•30-day trial: Day 10/30, July 14th 2018