Once more I’m at my macbook slaving away with my precious Wacom Bamboo and Corel Painter Essentials 4. A bit of a side note, but Corel Painter Essentials 4 has been acting up since I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Every time I switch to other applications and then switch back, I’d lose the “choose media” pull-out tab, which means I’d be stuck with the last media I was using (pencil, round watercolor brush, chalk etc). To get that tab back I have to quit and relaunch the app, gah!
This time the original drawing I used was the little poster that came with All Color But The Black. As you can see the original has all 13 squad Vice Captains.
I picked out the two good friends who happen to be at the very front in the poster, Hisagi Shuuhei and Kira Izuru.
The hardest part about drawing Shuuhei was to make him look badass enough while looking calm at the same time. Kira, on the other hand, the most difficult part about drawing him was his arms! Since I didn’t have enough space to draw him in his original pose (plus it looked really confusing and people might mistake Kira’s hand as Shuuhei’s), I tried various different hand poses before deciding not to draw his hands at all. Everytime I drew his hands they either look unnatural or looked too cluttered along with Shuuhei’s hand and sword.
I’ll hopefully have time to color this over the weekend… UPDATE: Well, I did finish coloring this on Saturday evening, so I decided to replace the sketch with the colored version in this post.















