Manafumi and the World Colours

Most of the art I’ve been mak­ing lately hasn’t been for pub­lic view­ing. But here’s some stuff I can show -

Con­cept for a poster for Man­a­fumi’s Japan tour, World Colours. I kind of like the abstract mix of colours, but this idea wasn’t suit­able. I tried exper­i­ment­ing with a more stan­dard­ised bishounen look for this, and as a result the char­ac­ter looks generic, and not much like Man­a­fumi at all!

So I tried my hand at some proper sketch studies…

Here is the result of about an hour and a half draw­ing off pho­tographs. By the end of it, I was more focused on try­ing to rep­re­sent what I saw cor­rectly, in tones, rather than actu­ally push­ing his fea­tures around and exper­i­ment­ing with style. It was good prac­tice, but next time I think I’ll go for a more car­i­ca­tured approach.

I’ve also started up a livestream chan­nel. I don’t have a sched­ule yet, but I do plan to livestream more sketch ses­sions! I’ll be post­ing notice of this on twit­ter.

One last pic­ture — here are some con­cepts for a logo for Women in Games:

Play­ing with shape and form more than any­thing at this point. Hm.