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Slayers Artober- Finale

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Originally I was going to draw Zangulus for “the rival,” but I don’t draw Naga often and she does have a song literally about being a rival, so… here she is. I tried to pay more attention to the pauldrons this time because I usually wind up drawing them looking like they’re halves of a giant Chun-Li bracelet. On figures they’re a bit wider and look like actual armor. Go fig.

Dynast Grausherra came to mind immediately for the prompt “Chessmaster,” but things were complicated a bit because there’s like no official reference for his face. I pretty much tried to reverse engineer a front shot from the chibi art of him and Sherra back to back. Either he has a mouthplate or he has the facial structure of a Dragon Half character.

I wanted to use “A-cup Angst” as an excuse to draw a really out-there expression mostly. I was going to have Naga holding the tape but I couldn’t figure out the pose and I wanted to finish by the end of the day, when it will no longer be… Tober.

I think most people ran with Halloween costumes, and they are fun to draw for sure. The ‘impossible’ part comes from wanting to draw one of those kind of sleek, shapeshifting living outfits like Morrigan or uh, Venom I guess has, but I probably killed that with all the ornaments. She’s kind of inspired by a mix of Bayonetta and the new variant Theresa from Honkai. I made her hair white for the hell of it because I like the look and wanted to draw it like that without the ‘baggage’ of her having pushed herself to the limit for once.

Slayers Artober, Collected v4

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Probably one of the weaker feeling ones I’ve done so far this month, Gourry’s kind of squashed and Lina’s kind of tucked away but I wanted to emphasize the boy more since I draw so many Linas already.

When I was trying to think of ‘shout outs’ in Slayers I actually could think of more times other anime referenced it than it referenced other things. But when I think of Slayers making references I think of the Shampoo lookalike twins, Mimi and Nene. And the Col. Sanders bandit. But I went with these two.

I kinda feel like the drawings are starting to fall in line with my baseline quality from back when I was drawing basically every day which is good, but I must press onward!

I thought I’d play with the prompt a little and have Amelia building a couple models. I knew exactly which gunpla to start from, heh. I kind of picture the Zelgouf ‘stones’ being extra armor plates or missile pod covers.

I set the brush thickness way too heavy for this one and it looks like my old Sharpie comics. You might think that’s a good thing if you were around that far back. Thanks for being one of the real ones.

(That said this one kind of did shit numbers on the socials and I kind of blame there being too much text- people seem to like pictures that speak for themselves)

“What’s good, Valgaav?”
“Not much, just crossing the street.”

She’s not in full yandere mode but given that Sylphiel is a priestess capable of memorizing the highest black magic spell after just seeing it performed in front of her, she could definitely be dangerous if someone wrote her off…

Slayers Artober v3

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Day 11: Absurdly Sharp Sword- It’s a riff off of the Metal Gear Rising cover. I probably could have come up with something else but it was the first solid (ha) idea I thought of.

Day 12: Awesome, But Impractical- I’ve always kind of wondered if the gang ever went back for their Dragon Cuisine after the months upon months it was going to take to make the meat safe to eat. Plus, I like having excuses to draw Chef Ashford.

Day 13: Not So Harmless Villain- About as soon as I got done doing flat colors on Fibrizo I remembered Joyrock existed and would have fit the theme better but eh, w/e. I thought I would throw a mosaic/glitch effect over the prompt name since he’s not really introduced as a villain at all. I tried to play up the cute a little more than normal on this one just to experiment but I feel like everything *but* the face kind of flops.

14. Badass Adorable- Amelia is a character I didn’t ‘get’ at all when I first saw the series but after rewatching it with more familiarity with Japanese pop culture hero stereotypes, I love her. Not really satisfied with the proportions or pose in the end and I kind of feel like the ripped clothes comes off more like fanservice than ‘tough.’ Then again, neither thing is bad… right?

16. Teenage Genius- Sherlock Lina Sherlock Lina Sherlock Lina

16. Signature Move- I know I said before I try not to go ‘too obvious’ on prompts and I spent the entirety of last year’s list drawing just Lina but… c’mon. The Dragon Slave is so iconic other shows even copy the *chant* part.

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