Autumn Header: Ready to Rumble!
Added 2023-09-02 18:38:46 +0000 UTCPrepare to witness a clash of titans as the green orc and the purple gorilla step into the ring, where the roar of the crowd meets the roar of the wild! This is a showdown you won't want to miss!
Guys, this took an **awful** lot of time. Not just because it's the third header I make, not just because I drew so many background characters I got sick of it, not just because I felt like checking the model of this wrestling arena and had to fix the horrors I made a year ago, but mostly because I wanted to step up my game: build some actual shaders in the 3D world and add a couple more layers in the 2D artwork, exploring this *mysterious thing* called "backlighting". Use a dirtier lineart and add some light texturing.
I've also screwed myself up with making this artwork on different 3D locations, having to project and reproject on different planes of the 3D space, but Turning my art in a virtual theater of paper figurines looks pretty interesting to me, as you can see below.
I still feel like I've learned something that will help me do better artwork in a slightly more efficient way, and that's the important part. If I think about my vocation in the space of gay art, it's to channel the energy usually reserved for bombastic shonen and superhero battles targeted an audience of straight dudes, too. And that's the thrill that constantly drives me.
