#*process

I regret to inform everyone that after a while I got tired and stopped naming layers, but here’s a peek at some of the ones for Hwanwoong’s:

LMFAO

I don’t know if it’s truly around 100 layers or not, it may have pulled that from the frame number. I started by looking for frames I thought would work well and then sketching out the wing pose that came to mind in some color that would stand out. Here’s Xion’s first sketch:

Unreferenced, just putting in the shapes I thought would look good. His final wings ended up being based off of various falcons, but I don’t claim to be an ornithologist so nobody @ me.

The first three in the series used no references whatsoever, they’re very much whimsical fantasy wings only.

I really struggled to find something for Hwanwoong that had him framed in the shot a way I particularly liked, so here’s some attempts and some spitefully drawing on music videos I wasn’t sourcing from for this set:

Testing the wings matching the hair concept, which unfortunately looked rad as shit so I put off working on it for a few days because I k n e w it would be a thousand layers and a lot of work.

Finally decided I was okay painting some of the others out and sketched out the pose.

I mostly used barn owls as reference to get those good rounded shapes but I don’t pretend the ending product is anything but unicorn wings and only those

Colored lineart to help establish some base colors for when I filled in the wings more, sourced from other pictures of the rainbow hair with much better lighting than this one, and I did also paint on his hair some to bring everything together, if you look at the finished piece closer you can probably tell

I ended up repainting the smaller feathers on the leftside wing entirely since I didn’t love how it was coming out and wanted more of a color spread.

had the canvas extended up until the very end! I think you can tell if lines were drawn from fully behind something or not so I needed the space to paint in the fluffier feathers sticking up on each other.

just cleaning up the edges to go! You can see the sort of sparkle effect from some speckle brushes on the right side at this point.

cleaner edges and final color adjustments and it’s finished!

thanks for reading, I hope it was fun to see more of how the colors filled in and thanks for enjoying these so much!