#montevarro

I know i redid the painting style on this so I could finish sooner but I'm terrible at cel shading and I don't like the way this is starting to look for multiple reasons. (#1 being the eyes and #2 being the lighting is still weird, but also worse than the last attempt.)

However I'm also out of time for the rest of this month, so any redo is gonna have to wait until I get thru the other two GXCREW boys... (and maybe some studies.)

😭 RIP.

Wake up babe new king just dropped

Xandinho, for my smol series of drawings I'm trying to finish this year so I can reacquaint myself with some of my OCs again.

TEAM X - The Crown, his Saber, and his Technician.

A quick scribble of these three together... The version of this uploaded from instagram looked horribly compressed, but... uh, this is really only marginally better.

TIAN -  King X’s "Saber” -- or right hand. A generally friendly fellow with an affinity for remote-controlled projectiles.

He’s not as obnoxious as he looks I promise ;;; At this stage in the Montevarro universe’s development, the details of the position of Saber are a little vague. All we know for sure is that they sorta play second in command to the Crown... sometimes as a reinforcer, a messenger, a personal informant/council, or some combination of all that. I guess this is all to say Tian has to be responsible and trustworthy, since King X generally uses him as a messenger lol.

After finishing Mikhail’s piece I was really motivated to get some more work done... except maybe with a simpler painting style. At that point in time, I was gonna be moving towns again -- if I couldn’t finish it in a few days, I probably wasn’t gonna finish it for another month. I also started seeing noticeable chromatic aberration in some new photo filters that seemed popular lately, so I figured “Why not do a small study using the effect?”

And so I did. \(ovo)/ After trying everything out on other drafts first, of course. (Like the last image for example. I tested the effect in Photoshop on that.)

I spent some hours trying to dress him up while wondering why it looked strange (hint: the proportions are off...) He already had a main outfit designed for him, but because I was initially working with a dark blue background at the time, I couldn’t use it... Thoug, in the end, I cropped the whole thing and deleted the BG lmao. And for aaaaaall the time I spent on his hair, I still don’t really like the result. (=u=;;; ) It seems I forgot simplicity was key here.

MIKHAIL -- The lead technician of King X’s crew... though he generally uses his skills to hack and reverse engineer things. For science.

There were two months where I didn't have wifi and I didn't exactly get to upload this anywhere when I did finish this....... After it sitting around in WIP Hell for a majority of the year, of course. ^^; Coming back to it after all that time caused me to miss some details and change some others lol.

He’s an OC I’ve had for a looooong time... art for him has been long overdue. (Though, I guess that could be said for a lot of OCs I have. ;;;) Since he’s now part of a project I work on in the background, there’ll be more of him~ \(ouo)/

She's starting with some side characters, but will eventually get around to doing short stories for the rest of her cast. She wants to upload this first one to a site like AO3 (which... IDK about as far as audience goes) though I'm looking into other options.

My work for GXCREW is also shifting more to the written and (super-rough) conceptual work to give myself room for another upcoming transition in my second life...