Professional Lover (プロ愛人)

"As a professional in the art of young love... Allow me to teach you all of its ways."

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MacRoich's summer variant came home to me. ✨ I promised myself I'd paint him if I ever did. Looking back, I was rather unsatisfied with my last attempt at painting him, so I wanted to do better on this painting.

This certainly... Exceeded my expectations.

The whole process of this was me attempting what I call the steak style (look I dunno the official name so bear with me, m'kay). 🥩 This is an art style for characters that emphasize three main characteristics based on my own personal observations:

• Bold line art for the character's outline, which become mere wisps and light brushstrokes when enhancing corners and contours;
• The predominant use of shading with gray values instead of black line art when shaping muscles, coupled with an effective use of highlights; and,
• Vibrant colors, at least, in a daytime setting.

I have been taking pages out of a friend's art style and this Twitter artist in order to accomplish this. Coupled with what I already know, this painting became the result of that potluck of styles. I love how the character just properly pops up with the background.

Starting out though, I didn't intend to really attempt to learn it because the last time I tried, I was left feeling more disheartened than anything. Somewhere in the middle of this painting I decided to give it another shot. A lot of trial and error was involved, and the result was worth the struggle. 🥰

I'm genuinely looking forward to all the art pieces I can now make using all the knowledge I learned out of this one. ✨