Silas Zee: Kaori Miyazono

Kaori Miyazono

2016.06.06

I started Your Lie in April a few days ago and OH MY GOD WHY AM I ABOUT TO CRY OVER AN ANIME I BINGE-WATCHED ON NETFLIX??? TT__TT

...ahem.

So yeah, I'm a fan. And yeah, that means fan art.

I worked on this sketch while starting the series again (yes, I apparently enjoy pain) and after a day or two I ended up wtih something I really liked. I scanned it in and started inks on Kaori but felt the lines I was drawing just weren't cutting it. If you know me I don't like inking and I especially don't like inking when it takes that "flavor" out of the pencils. And that emotion and energy was something I definitely did not want to lose in this pic so I decided to trash the inks and work right off the pencils.

Cleaning up the sketch and picking what to keep and what to erase was tough but for me it's a lot more fun than inking. It also helped a lot in coloring because even though I didn't plan for this the extra lines and smudges help a lot with shading and highlighting. The messy lines also seemed to boost the glow effect I was going for when I put a lot of the highlight layers on top of the pencil layer.

I try to be humble with my art, but I think the result is a new personal best. One I don't think I'm gonna be topping for a while. :O