Kibbzle :)

So I just completely scrapped my Owen drawing I was working on yesterday, which is fine because I already had this one stewing in my mind for a couple days.

This was my reference:

And because Drift is a bit more peppy than this statue is, I wanted to make a wider smile, which was kind of difficult, but I got the shading right after I looked up images of marble statues that are smiling lol. Here’s the sketch:

For some reason, my gold ink is a bit thicker than my silver ink, so I had to get a palette out and mix it with a little bit of water. That got it flowing enough to not make me want to chuck all of my pen nibs in the bin lol

I got a bit lazy, so at the bottom I let there be less definition in the form and I just used the ink dropper to put ink directly on the paper.

As I was inking, I realized the face looks really similar to my Pearl illustration, so I’m having some same face syndrome in my realism style, unfortunately. I’ll have to do more studies to get around that, but I’m still happy with the work I did here today!