Tom here! My flatwork for my website is in need of an update!

The above thumbnail is from an assignment I had to turn in today. There’s still much left to do in it, but it’s plenty presentable for class purposes. I still need to touch up the lighting and textures, and add Tansen into it (I have a rough of her slumped over the trunk…

Oh yeah, I meant to post some concepts of her back in April. Oops!

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In the first one, I got too carried away and gave her Jessan’s lanky proportions. Tansen isn’t supposed to be a beanpole. She’s kinda short, a more ladylike figure.

I also added a color test. I’m still working out their color palettes, as I had to for the first painting. Since the beginning, I wanted Jessan to have more cool sky colors. I used to have her hair in blue or purple, but this hasn’t set well with me lately. It’s more violet than purple now, but dark enough to still be earthy and not to warm. Tansen on the other hand has more of a fiery personality, so her palette is warmer, more venomous.

As I said, she was meant as a kind of foil, what I think I meant to say was that she is there to piss Jessan off most of the time, though they’ve been friends for years. Since they trained together, I wanted them to have uniforms, but not be completely uniform, so her bandages are placed differently (Tansen does need a sarashi for fighting, as opposed to Jessan who is quite flat.)

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Here are some other concepts that I have to ink later. Actually, I might redo #3, his legs are bugging me…