November Pin-up - Asgore

 Time for monthly pinup!!! 

 November has been so busy over here, what about yours? My birthday is coming... This time of the year is always a bit complicated, but I'm goin!

 I usually like to do pin-ups with a wholesome approach, but that's a side so explored regarding Asgore that I can't help to be the contrarian.................. 

 Let's start!!

> Thumbnailing!! 

 Went for the body motion and gesture first. I even tried to do armor included but it just broke the flow.... So I actually finished the figure and then tried putting the armor on it!

 For the composition, I wanted to include  the six human souls and a flowey inspired frame with lots of thorny vines.

> Here's how the sketch went!

    For the spear I made it flat separately and used the deform tool to apply it in perspective. I left to work the details in the upcoming step.

> Lineart with no weight applied!

   The lack of contrast is disheartening.......

> Weight treatment!!

> I noticed that with the  way I did things in the thumbnail, placement of the six souls and border would kind of clutter everything and be ugly,...  I mean, besides having no room to it at all LOL 

 And ofc I really wanted to put these two elements.... (eight?!)

   I tried to arrange the souls in a radial circle and decided to make the borders less chaotic and with a nouveau feel?

  It really demanded a new... ornament structure sketch?!

> Here I made the lineart for the border!! Spiky spiky fun.

   It's a cool challenge to make an abstract border and then give the lines a different material. This one was spiky vines!

   Also note the base for the souls on the lower left corner - I wanted to focus on finishing the figure and not on less important elements so I made a base for all souls!! 

   Gotta learn to pay more attention to what actually matters in a picture! I can get easily distracted with flashy bits.....

> Things I haven't done in a hot while - color sketchessssss. They are helpful goddamn. Maybe if I actually did it in the comic I could  have an  easier time coloring.

> Finished the vines, and polished the base of the soul! 

   With that soul, I only needed to pick my colors and apply them accordingly. It's important that they glowwwwwww

> Finished BG first!!! lookin cute!!

   Then I was like

   WOW there's a WHOLE picture ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂 

> Flatssss. Few colors so that's GREAT. Also because I didn't skip color sketch, I didn't have to crack my head picking the colors. I did that more calmly in the earlier step!

> Primary shadows!

    I want asgore to look strong, but also fluffy and plumpy. So I wanted to make the shadows less hard for his body! Soft, soft. Guess it gives good contrast to the hard shadows the armor has.

> Secondary shadows!

   An important thing here that I've been applying recently - If I do metals, I'd rather do the secondary shadows separately, with color!!! I really don't know why but it makes it way easier. 

> Base shadows applied!!!!

> And then the armor rendering! Golden golden golden.

 From here I did his vanishing to dust effect.... tragic..............................

And that concludes our monthly pin-up post. I'll be opening the voting for the next character on the 1st! 😊