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I started this painting back on Saturday and worked a bit on it Sunday morning but for some reason felt like I wasn't making much progress. It started to become a slugfest, so I decided to take the rest of Sunday off and not work on it on Monday. I felt a bit guilty but when I continued working on it today I definitely felt more refreshed and the wall I was fighting before was suddenly non existent. Although the background and the poses were mostly left finished on Sunday, there was still quite a bit of work to do figuring out how I wanted the colors for Ranma and Akane. But once I got the base colors done, the work just flowed after that. It was just a matter of working and tweaking things. I'm trying to render things a bit more so that they don't look too rough. I'm also gonna play around with the line art digitally. Doing so I can get a my style that I'm currently developing and traditional anime working together. Judging by how things tend to work out, I'll be adjusting and hopefully refining it as I go along.
Background is a mismatch of different ideas and photos but the ice was from a photo I took a while ago:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/21/54/85/215485092464640be8dacddf40f48a9e.jpg
The idea for this painting was mainly jus to have Akane skating when I saw this photo of Yū Hayami:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/49f0268da395a277f4ea9e03a398a30c/39e6de4058577859-20/s500x750/69e8a0e4908f1d17f5f239781a142a0dc238a47a.jpg
But I felt like Akane would look too lonely so I added Ranma. I remembered that he had trouble skating in the first seasons (did he ever learn?) so I wanted to paint him struggling. That's how I came upon this pose reference (Can't find info on the model for some reason):
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/76/c0/30/76c0308f0efa57b9522861368f2eb283.jpg
Ranma's outfit:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/bc/3e/79/bc3e791298e36be0d6d0e52a4c64f9c0.jpg
I was pretty much done when I suddenly by the end felt it would look even better if I had Ryoga in his boar form jumping off of Ranma. Then I noticed that Akane looked too stiff so I decided to have her hair flutter as if she was in movement.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
2022-01-12 06:28:02 +0000
