#art repaint

the silent voice of madoka

Doing a re-paint of and old illustration. You can see the original below. I made it at the beginning of the pandemic and It was the first time trying out a new rendering style. At the time, I really liked this illustration, but it has aged badly. I keep focusing on the blurry lines and bad lighting/ badly placed shadows. I just wished it looked cleaner. Somehow, my fellow party members in the back loon more defined that my character, Akreus.

Anyway, I appreciate this drawing because it gives me a sense of nostalgia for those years and the particular context I made it in. I assume a lot of you experienced something similar: 2020 came in, started quarantine for what you thought would be a few days, and eventually spent all year locked up, cancelling your dnd campaign in the process.

This scene in particular was the last session in campaign we had before we stopped playing. If I don’t remember badly, at first we were in a hiatus because of summer vacation. We all were traveling and we weren’t able to coordinate our schedules. After that, coronavirus hit, and even though we said we would keep playing once it was over, we never really did. We did try once, but eventually it fell apart.

As I said in another post about this specific campaign, I don’t resent the group or the situation, but I do feel bad for the characters whose stories are now in a perpetual freeze frame, captured accidentally by me on this last illustration.