I did a few practice drawings of Domon alongside the longer painting/illustration of him I've been posting about. I have always found the anime style personally difficult to draw (sort of confusing when I'm also told I draw anime, haha). It's challenging for me to draw the G Gundam characters in a way that looks natural in my painting style, while still being faithful to the original character designs (which I adore so much!).
Doing a few practice drawings closer to Domon's original design here helped with figuring out how to stylize him for the full illustration. :D
Maybe I will share some of the drawings I did in 2021 and 2023 to compare with now, but I also find them pretty embarrassing, and might be too self-conscious to (by the time you're reading this, I will have updated the "G Gundam GUNDAM FIGHT Round 5" translation site with new or revised 2024 artwork to replace most of the 2021/2023 ones :) )
Zechariah (he/him) has always been underweight. (his old design GeeGee was thin but not like how he is now) the thing is Shane wrote he doesn't like to eat anything but sweets like candy and cookies and cake. we knew he had an ED but he didn't want to be thin cause he thinks he's fat it was becase he hated eating most foods. he was a "picky eater" but now we know was AFRID is so he has that, but we're also adding a traditional eating disorder cause why not?? he got AFRID and another ED that starts with the letter A lmao - shane
Okay, I was gonna steel my nerves and wait till after I watched the first three episodes of season 2.........., But why is Rand sharing a bed with Lanfear!?!?!?!? WHY is Moiraine shielded but they acting like she's stilled?? IS she stilled???? Is Nynaeve gonna heal her and Suiane doesn't get stilled???? Are we even gonna get a breaking of the White Tower? AND WHYYYYYYY is Perrin having Rand's visions? That's part of Rands struggle with impending madness, not part of Perrin coming to terms with his wolf powers?! Why add the fantasy mental health institution? I don't understand having sooooooooooo much source material and throwing out so much to add stuff, and what does it do for the Wheel of Time really? And Liandrin 😑😑😑😑😑 Is she gonna be Black Aja? Why try to make her more sympathetic, she's awful, let her be awful. And we already know i despise the road they have taken my darlin Mat down, where is his luck???? Why he gotta burrow out like a rat? 🤨Okay, and getting rid of one of the sisters for Verin?????? I love Verin, but wtf Vandene and Adeleas come up again when Verin is busy elsewhere! I don't expect it to be 100% book accurate, but the sheer amount of slicing and dicing drives me bonkers.
The one thing that I'm really happy about and thats BAYLE DOMON! FINALLY!!!!