Ryougi Shiki WIP 2

Here's some more workups and sketches from the Ryougi Shiki picture:

Here you can see how I refined the rough sketches and concepts along the top into the final three picture candidates I posted in the last WIP post. Of the three concepts, I ended up going with image concept #2, which further refined into the bottom three sketches you see in this picture.

To really nail the anatomy, I took my favorite version of the sketch, and started breaking down the perspective:

Perspective isn't just for backgrounds. The character also conforms to the vanishing points. If you look closely at the top image, you can see where her body used to be, and how it was reworked to follow the perspective.

Working from the bottom blue sketch, next I did a final clean pencil drawing, and then finished it with the inks and color. A lot of love and time goes into each of our images, as I hope these WIP show. :)

Ryougi Shiki - Complete!

 Ryougi Shiki from the anime series Kara no Kyoukai. Enjoy!

See this previous blog post for WIP pics and more details.

Ryougi Shiki WIP

New picture in the works... this is Ryougi Shiki from an anime series called Kara no Kyoukai.

When working out a new picture, I'll sometimes come up with multiple rough composition sketches. That allows me to try out different variations on a pose/camera angle, and see what works best. Stay tuned to find out which one I end up using.... :)

In keeping with the character design exercises I've been doing lately, here is a turnaround I did for Shiki:

Work in progress sketches continued in Ryougi Shiki WIP 2!