#THE CONCEPTING TOOK ME SO LONG AND THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE LINEART BUT. GUESS WHAT

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"Lethe"

The Hunter • Manus Dei

"The Hunter from the Boreal Mountains" or so it has been called. Not much is known of this enigmatic hunter, only that it lives alone amongst the trees, is an expert hunter, and that it wear some kind of hand-shaked mask over its right eye.

[ammi104]

요호 (Fox Spirit) 6.15.2019

Finally..;;; Started this back at 2018 and NOW it's complete Xd Despite this work being postponed for like.. myriad times, I'm really glad I was able to finish it this year, now that I've improved more on several levels than my "May of 2018"-self ^ㅂ^

Still got a long way to go, but am blissful of seeing how this turned out to be. 2 6  F R I C K I N '  H O U R S! Took me two sleepless days to draw this;;; It was rushed in the end, due to how worn out I was, begging for it to be completed as soon as possible XDD Never expected for this to take longer than the "MCU Loki" drawing I did not so while ago, which took 17 hours. Drawing Loki before this actually did a lot of help, since for that piece, I had no idea on how to draw reflective objects, which in that case, were the gold armor+decorations Loki wears. This kinda forced me to find methods of painting reflective objects, especially on how they're supposed to be done. Reference pics provided a bit of knowledge to keep me going on painting Loki. Aaaaand now back to this freshly-painted image.. I guess the experience on drawing Loki didn't go to waste, as I was much more competent in shading and highlighting the reflective accessories of this character without looking at any reference (well.. except for the concept art for this character.. I may have designed him, but I still occasionally forget his appearance;;; oh yeah, and also the patterns Xd). Hours wasted on the patterns alone.. worth it tho.

Probably the most trouble I had on this work were the patterns; since this character (along with several others of "his kind") tends to reflect his "character" through his clothing (such as long sleeves = covering hands = sign of respect), I had to look up sooo many images of patterns on oriental clothing to get the idea on how I should design them. Really wanted symbols of freedom depicted through his physical ability (aerokinesis) and mentality, hence concluding to add cloud and white rose patterns on his robe (white rose is a sign of spirituality, innocence, humility, purity, and sympathy). Kinda thought of using the exact designs found online for this image and credit them, since I've seen many artists who actually trace patterns, buildings, designs, etc. on Google images (probably cuz the original artists are usually ancient or somethin...?~.~;9) I wasn't sure if it's a vice or not, despite many talented artist using and tracing them, so I thought of designing the patterns my own while containing some of the aspects of the original wallpapers I've retrieved the designs from. I kinda.. just scribbled random designs on top of some of the traced lines, and with the power of COPY☆PASTA, I was able to come up with something quite... "messy but kinda pleasing to look at" patterns (at least in my eyes, that is).

Conclusion? Well.. 40% of the time taken on drawing the lineart, 30% on filling colors in between the hair+fur, 20% on drawing the patterns, 10% on copy-pasting the flying petals, and 100% wrist-snapping effort (ok, my math is totally wrong, but you get the point, right?). Was very fun to do, but I really don't think I'll do any big artworks like this one over here for the next few months lol;;;

Speedpaint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYgGUHVp5cs