#belafarinrod

I was brainstorming the costumes for a long time until it hit me that this would be my chance to try out that art-style-swap challenge I have been wanting to try as well! Took me another moment to brainstorm which art styles I would do, since I normally don't do this, and this was the end-result:

Bela as a cowboy in the style of Morris, known for Lucky Luke comics, and Bela's base here was the Daltons.

Farin sometimes resembles a skeleton already without even a costume on, so that was my first choice for his costume - art style being of course Tim Burton's.

And finally, Rod, for whom I could not think of any costume other than the dadjoke I told myself in my sleep a few years ago, so he became a Fishing Rod once again. The style is Tove Jansson's, know for her Moomin drawings. I didn't want to make him to cosplay any specific character, so I pretty much combined Snuffkin and Too-Ticky into one as they both love to fish; finished with Rod's purple suit that I think I have now seen live at least twice if not three times at concerts.

I also chose the art mediums to fit the artists' styles - I don't have real ink so I used Pigma Microns for the lineart, but the colouring was done with alcohol-based markers on Bela, coloured pencils on Farin, and watercolour pencils + water on Rod; drawn on an A4 paper.

This was an extremely fun things to challenge myself with! It's also fun to see how strong my own style really is, I can see it peeking through from each one of these. Not to mention that my style, also, has been strongly inspired by these Belgian and French comics I grew up reading, with a hint of some American comic strips!

Here are also some close-ups of the faces just for fun:

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