Big Shot

No, not that one. Not until I check out Deltarune, at least.

If you haven’t been keeping up with my yapping on Fedi (which is likely), you might’ve missed that I’ve been watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica for the past week. Turns out I’m actually really liking it thus far (I finished episode 10 just earlier), so it’s only natural I was gonna make some drawings of it.

That bit of context aside, this one wasn’t even meant to be colored at first, rather just a quick warmup sketch. But I spent way longer than I expected on the lineart, so I ended up quickly coloring it and blocking out the vaguest resemblance of a “background” to make the whole thing presentable enough for a post of its own.

Since I finished this fairly late at night, I didn’t have time to give it the usual eyecandy treatment I used for several of my best drawings last year. That might’ve been a mistake, as I feel like the end result here really lacks the impact you’d expect from a goofy, huge rifle like that.

Putting aside the somewhat salty feelings from leaving the drawing unfinished to some extent, I still think this is pretty nice at its core. Oh, and this was also my very first time drawing Mami - I hadn’t even made a single sketch of her before this! For being a first time, I think I didn’t do that bad of a job at getting her outfit right.

Before closing this post, let me also ruin your future (re)watches of Madoka Magica’s early episodes by pointing out that Shaft seems to have forgotten to draw Mami’s gloves in a shocking amount of shots! Granted, not that I noticed until I started looking more closely into the scenes for reference - it’s not so glaring you’ll notice on a normal watch.