Sorcerer? I Hardly Even Know 'er

Sorcerer? I hardly even know 'er

(pls why did I internally die typing that out)

Process for the Mysta Shu Illustration c:

because for once I actually decided to screenshot the steps because IT TOOK SO LONG - I drew this somewhere before Thanksgiving break and stressful uni weeks and transferring between two Laptops to work on it on two places -

The original plan (left) was something similar to fanart I saw of like school AU of Luxiem but a part of me wanted to try """"dynamic""' (at least that's what I convinced myself lol) poses and the trend with fisheye lens led to the revision (right)

I cleaned it up and struggled with lineart and was going back and forth with it for days ;-;;;

until I decided to just scrap that and do it as a digital painting of sorts

then background and some lighting annndd done <3

until I had to fight every cell in my body to keep Shu's hair like how it's designed rather than my short hair preference :>

thank you for coming to my ted talk HAHAHAH

Spring wip

I love drawing shu in this palette 🥹 im back to giving up on lineart and doing it all in one layer and so far it's going well!

Uni load has been lighter but it's the commissions and other art projects I've joined that takes all my time, but I'm enjoying every step nonetheless

this went through 3 different stages while I was drawing it. I loveee drawing Shu but I guess I take really long to draw him

the first two drafts were somewhat heavily influenced by sadder emotions but I scrapped that idea after a while

take all the time you need c:

Break time 🔆