Ryuuji the Gatekeeper

A commission I made for my friend, Shizuhiku. This is his Housamo OC, Ryuuji, a Transient hailing from the world of the Old Ones. He is also known as the Gatekeeper.

I used his OC as a model for some bara art study with a book called 「強い筋肉の描き方」(How to Draw Strong Muscles). The book featured art from four Japanese artists and the one whose art style I mainly focused on studying was GomTang; I especially like the way he draws his men and how he renders his characters. I got a physical copy of the book and a lot of the time I spent was trying to understand anatomy through his art style. Unfortunately, due to some other happenings IRL, I wasn't able to finish this as soon as I would have wanted... 😅

The spear wasn't too hard to conceptualize. I was honestly just looking over my Gunpla collection for some inspiration. The spear has a mechanism where the two side prongs unlatch and stick out, turning it into a three-pronged spear.