Monday, October 3, 2022

FanArt_ink.Bat

MTGinktober echo-locates Day 3, "Bat," starring Radha, Heir to Keld and Eyetwitch!  

 
Man, this was a close one, but we made all posting deadlines.  No matter how clear a composition we have, how much is already ironed out in-mind, there's always something that brings progress to a screeching halt and eats away at all that advance work--the musculature took forever to get down, so no time for a neater background or at least a less blistering pace on everything else, so naturally errors become more likely.
 

Case in point, the above is how we went to "print," and upon closer examination, there are a few missing spot blacks, and stuff, so we just gave it a quick touch up and re-scanned.

Fun Facts: I forgot to ink the blood on her torso, so I did some quick digital inks there, but still no erasing.  This is an extremely rare instance of using digital to add in marks (not counting flat blacks), which we did to hit our daily deadline, rather than have to re-scan the actual updated inks (as a personal goal, I want to hit all sites by midnight Eastern this year--you can see some timekeeping notes at top in the margin).  This is also Radha's second MTGinktober appearance (or third, depending on how you count "Swollen"...).

 
Easter Eggs: The stadium and pose are from the incredible video for "会心の一撃" from Radwimps.  Also, the logo on the hat is the Strixhaven expansion symbol.

Reuxben

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