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Damn it! A.B.A. is getting more and more girly! Among my other regrets, I remember a fangirl asking me, “Why did you make Ky’s cheeks so blushed?” and at the time I quickly answered, "Because I wanted to.” But that's incorrect, and the real answer is because Ky was still a young kid at the time. The colors just didn't blend nicely, ugh! Coloring is so difficult, isn't it?

Cover for the Japanese release of Guilty Gear Isuka on the PlayStation 2. Scan and caption from Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007 by Daisuke Ishiwatari.

#guilty gear #guilty gear isuka #daisuke ishiwatari #playstation #playstation 2 #fgc #sol badguy #order sol #ky kiske #aba guilty gea #a.b.a.#my scans #my translations #guilty gear scans #This is a rare one where I can't actually tell with confidence what media Daisuke used for it #He definitely did the usual penciled work scanned and then printed out after being sharpened/cleaned digitally technique he used back then #But some of the highlights and textures of blended areas are unusual #It almost looks like watercolors or extremely diluted acrylic/gouache paint #Though some of the more saturated sections like the outline between Sol and Ky's faces look like markers #I know he uses correction fluid and sometimes colored pencils in his marker work #So I wonder if the base of this is in markers and he diluted the correction fluid for the unusual highlights on Paracelsus and the faces?#The tumblr compression might conceal it but you can make out some colored pencil texture at the bottom right of-#Paracelsus' head and it looks like a bit in the Robo-Ky motif at the top too where it blends into Ky/Sol's heads #Hmmm... I'm betting on the markers with diluted correction fluid #Something else that's interesting about this illustration is that you can see the back part of Sol's headband too #Usually it's covered by his hair but in a handful of these GGX/GGXX illustrations you can see it #I like to imagine that my art professors would be so disappointed in me for using my half-baked fine arts degree on analyzing-#-obscure Japanese fighting game illustrations hahahah

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