any .hack fans in the room? 👀

Subaru and Tsukasa from .hack//sign, painted with watercolors. I was having trouble coming up with ideas when I started this picture, which is why there are multiple parts of it that feel a little off to me. In retrospect, I wish I had found a better pose reference, because this angle makes it look like Tsukasa is a lot shorter than Subaru, but I'm pretty sure Tsukasa is supposed to be a little taller than her. I need to figure out how to draw someone leaning their head on the chest of someone shorter than them. I guess Tsukasa's knees could just be bent. Maybe he/she is sitting. While painting this, I had thought that I regretted doing the black ink on Tsukasa's shirt, since I ended up liking the flat unshaded look of most of the painted areas. But in retrospect, it doesn't look too bad! I was originally going to shade this in my usual "cel-shaded" way, but once I colored their faces, I realized I really like the flat look, so I decided to leave it mostly unshaded. Now that the picture is done, I like it better than I thought I would. That said, I hope to draw more of these two in the future, and I'm hoping I'll be more confident with the next one.

Materials: Canson watercolor paper, Uni Prockey marker, Sakura Micron 01, Sakura GellyRoll, Mei Liang watercolor paints

Watch the lineart video on Youtube!