smarties

little ramble about this i guess:

a couple weeks ago i was listening to this song and this line from it made me think about negative space kinda. so i wanted to try and make something based on that i guess.

anyways i thought it could be interesting to mainly draw a background and then have the characters be like a cutout of it like reverse negative space or something. especially since a lot of the time if i include a background its more of an afterthought. i also went out of my way to have the characters be transparent instead of just a solid color, although it isn't even all that noticeable in the end so. yeah. all it really accomplished is making the drawing look slightly different on light mode.

originally i wanted to have them both be solely like silhouettes (including their hair) but i decided to include some details to make them more recognizable and to help the poses read better.

for a while i had the text just use the text tool since i wanted the fonts to match with the fonts they each use in the comic series, but it looked out of place so i replaced it with hand drawn text, but i still tried to have it resemble their fonts (which is why the handwriting changes back and forth a couple of times).

i actually did make a full background even though a lot of it is obscured. sometime in the future i might try to remake this but change the composition so that more of the background is visible in it..

full background: