And Everyone's Voice

3/2発売のX-EROS(ゼロス)に寄稿したイラストです。これとは別に私の描いた24ページの漫画も掲載されてます。漫画家デビュー作なので見てね！

My manga has been published in a magazine called “X-EROS#83”. This picture is also in the magazine.

https://pixiv.net/artworks/79850705　

From the earth.

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I vastly prefer the original: not because it is racy (if anything, in principle I prefer the more-clothed version) but because the entire piece is working together to "say something." The contrast between yellow and black in the face, on the shawl fringe, around the sword, and of course on the thighs, is striking and powerful. It tells a story. The bare thighs are almost too much; they're like beacons; they are the first place you look because they're so dang bright (and they're thighs). Then you see the brightness in the face. And from there the rest of the piece begins to reveal itself.

In the second image, the whole lower left quarter of the art doesn't seem to be saying anything at all. It's just simply present out of the demands of realism. The first image has balance; the second is dark and muddled (at least in the bottom-left); that part of the piece isn't adding anything to the whole.

This is understandable, since the OP mentions that the latter image is an example of inpainting, so the subject matter was already fixed. But if it were me I would have put in vertical stripes or something; there needs to be more yellow in there, or rather there needs to be more form in there.

Blessing   -   Mia Bergeron , 2021.

American, b. 1979 -