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Very cool, always loved that panel too and I like this re-imaging of it the more I look at it.

Can we get some insight on your thought process through this one? Like the choice to not include the moon and changing the perspective on Guts' head/his expression. Making it a more realistic shot of Guts?

Griffith No More! said:

Can we get some insight on your thought process through this one? Like the choice to not include the moon and changing the perspective on Guts' head/his expression. Making it a more realistic shot of Guts?

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Sure. Basically this started out as another color but I had a couple of things I wanted to do with it. I drew some quick ideas down without looking at the panel while away from my computer (this was the "groundwork" I was talking about when I replyed to Rhombaad).

However once I got back and attempted to color the panel things sort of fell apart. Cutting out Isidro and the text from the frame proved to be more difficult than I expected. Miura has a fairly distinctive texture behind Guts and the inks would look very odd without the background. Most importantly, however, the panel is very dark (intentionally so, as the contrast between Isidro and his thoughts are important to the panel) so there really isn't too much room to breathe for colors.
Its definitely a picture which is better served in black and white.

Still wanting to do something with it I opted to do a paint-over using the line work as a guide. I textured the background myself with the intention of doing the moon later. But after a while I liked the smoky background so much I made the moon a lesser priority (only if the composition demanded it). The face on the original is very sparcely detailed (I can guess to not draw too much attention away from the the silhouette and Isidro). But since those two are all but out (still no moon so the opportunity of making the face more of a focal point was there) I tested out a different face. It worked well enough so I stayed with it (however it did require me to change the head position).
Showed Aaz an early draft but even then most of the major blocking was done... so it really just came down to refine,refine,refine.

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20 pages of CnColors! woo!

Loving it! Amazingly detailed and really beautiful. Congratulations on both jubilees and thanks for all the great art!

Really awesome, CnC.

My buddy just bought a huge widescreen computer monitor and you can guess what the first thing I did was. It looks like the DS is going to slash me if I get too close to the screen. This is amazing work, beautiful to look at.

Holy hot damn!!!!! Beautiful!

Thanks for the kind words. I'm noodling around with another idea for a pic. We'll see how it goes.

Ughh dammit, i'm super late, sorry! Fantastic work there on Guts, it's perfect!

it's very nice~

You did an amazing job, this is one of my favorites of yours.

you are a genius!

I'm utterly ashamed to say until tonight your newest work has gone completely past me without noticing. Fucking awesome needless to say.... it took me a bit to realise it was from volume 24 on account of how altered it is. You said you changed the face, where did that come from?

Sparnage said:

I'm utterly ashamed to say until tonight your newest work has gone completely past me without noticing. Fucking awesome needless to say.... it took me a bit to realise it was from volume 24 on account of how altered it is. You said you changed the face, where did that come from?

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The face is mostly from later volumes. I forget which in particular. But I took care not to mess up on the number of scars on his face. Thanks again.

I hope to have more done soon :)

Heres an update. I'm working with skin tones, and I can't think of a better test than good ol'


Thanks for viewin'

Awesome work. Also, not to be a perve, but it looks like a sweet embrace of lovemaking!

Still awesome.

How romantic! Wonderful job, Puck's expression is priceless!

Griffith No More! said:

Awesome work. Also, not to be a perve, but it looks like a sweet embrace of lovemaking!

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...but thanks :)

Ah, how I love you for this post.

Nice work on the skin tones btw.

CnC, your Guts on pg.19 is the best I've seen from you so far, and definantely one of(if not the) best fanarts on here.

Puck looks so cute, the soft skin tones almost look angelic, a regular little Cupid

Thanks guys, I appreciate all the comments.

Hey guys. Thought I'd share this. Its nothing more than a test for another page in a similar style. I only had about half an hour to work on it and I ended up dropping the idea. ...but... um... yea.
Thanks for viewin'!

Looks good to me. When can we expect to see this "other page" of yours?

Very nice. Only 30 mins?!