#lqlounge

hoooooo boy, back to HQ classique.

it was really fun to get to draw classic hq after all this time - cool to see how he looks now in my style after like, a bajillion years. (fr tho at least 5 lol)

anger!! i like how his cape kinda looks like fire, its very dramatic. his nose also immediately starts bleeding, as part of his sort of regression into his past state....

lq being like 'oh jesus christ i thought we were done with nosebleeds', jokes on you asshole its always nosebleed oclock in lq land

i had an extra face edit i didnt end up using:

this was going to be for a small aside of 'ok y'all don't be fuckin weird about this' to the audience as hes about to do a forehead press, but ultimately i figured they're kinda in their own world rn and idk how much lq remembers the audience is there

and then, of course:

i.... no joke, really really like how this one came out. drawing LQs profile has always been exceedingly difficult for me (there are some, uhm, faces out there on his blog that are.... bad lol. wack) but i feel like it finally clicked for me a bit? shrug

also i like how this is very much a visual metaphor for LQ where he was before, and now LQ where they are presently. also i like their little speech at the end, and at last the reveal of what tf lq was doing in the field.

ok first tho everyones gotta look at this pic of willem dafoe

ok thanks

moving on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

first and foremost i feel like my lineart has gotten really good - ive kinda been really lacklustre w/ my drawing practice over the last few years, but the time i put into doing my webcomics (Riverwake + After Your Possession) kinda shows? i hope??

this was the first LQ picture i had drawn in........ like 4-5 years lol. even longer if you dont count Lowan / Riverwake stuff.... cool. weird how drawing LQ is like riding a bike for me at this point.

honestly a part of me almost prefers these versions lol, it'll be nice if i get to do an 'LQ's mindspace' sort of event because those are always monochromatic blues + lineart lol

yee haw. goopy.

and then some colors....

the flag field... i wanted to show that they were like, tattered and dirty from being out in the field. also ignore that little color icon of lq in the corner lol i reused the background for the following panel and im too lazy to get it out of there =u=;;;

i dont know why he put the flag on his head lol.... (also the static for his eye i did in post so thats why its not on this shot lol)

you can see his right eye turn red between these two shots, but i dont think it came across suuuper clear in the GIF version? ah well