Gokusaishiki Reol sketch

Looks like Yama won’t be the only music artist I listen to and make drawings of anymore.

I’ve alredy been listening to Reol for a long while now, but her new album Black Box turned out to be addictive enough (one of its tracks especially, Agitate) to throw me right into a “Reol arc” not unlike the Yama one from the past few months. I still think it’s funny how I’m talking about Black Box while the drawing here instead has the character design from the cover art of Gokusaishiki, Reol’s first album (and another masterpiece).

Oh right, let me clarify that I’m talking about the blue Gokusaishiki cover art. Because the album has not one, not two, but THREE different cover arts. The blue one isn’t even for a limited edition like I thought (that one appears to have the third, red cover art), I’m at a total loss regarding this… let’s just get back to my drawing.

Believe it or not, I struggled a lot with imitating Reol’s “absent” expression from the reference coverart, even though pretty much 90% of my sketches and then some do feature blank or neutral face expressions as well. I obviously haven’t nailed it in the end, but I blame this on sheer difference of artstyles.

I haven’t been making serious attempts at digital drawing for quite some time now, so on one side I am satisfied at my job of translating the artstyle of Gokusaishiki’s cover art into mine. On the other hand, I still believe the lineart looks dull compared to my MS Paint art. Maybe I have just grown too fond of aliased brushes? One thing is for sure: my brush experimentation in Krita is far from over just yet.