Silas Zee: Yoko 2.0

Yoko 2.0

2012.05.23

This started as a time-killer and turned into a full-blown crusade. XD

I was asking a friend for suggestions for what to draw and Yoko here came up. I've tried drawing Yoko before and failed miserably and I was about to throw this idea out the window and draw someone else instead. I've never been good at drawing anime stuff and even when I try drawing a character in my style I wind up trying to channel something animoo into the art. The result is me falling flat on my artistic ass (as was the case with that first Yoko piece I tried).

But here I made a concious effort to go balls crazy and draw this new Yoko my own way. I made sure her eyes weren't shaped like most anime eyes, and even though bangs give me trouble I didn't look at any art references when drawing her hair. Even the skull hairclip I did from memory.

I wanted almost everything on Yoko here to be super shiny to make the whole piece, and not just her boobs, "pop" out so I must've spent 5+ hours in Photoshop coloring this. I worked on this while sitting through two awful horror movies but it was worth it!

The bad news is now I want to see what my other favorite animoo gals would look like in my style...^_^;