IchiRen inks

[telophase]

Ad the quick-n-dirty ink I spalled on it, to be printed out and used as a guide for the inks I do on marker paper for the commission.

(ETA: I have no fucking idea what I was trying to spell when I typed "spalled." Spalling is when thin outer layers of something pop off, which doens't actually describe inking in any way, shape, or form. I really have a vague memory of thinking "tossed" at the time, but ... O.o)





Note one of ursulav's compositional guidelines - any lines that form an X draw attention. Note how your eye automagically completes the X where their noses almost touch and draws the attention. That's because it's the focal point of the composition. OK, yeah, so I didn't intend for their noses to be quite that close, but this is what is known as a Happy Accident.




...And yeah, sure, it looks like Ichigo is kneeing Renji in the 'nads, but HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT MAYBE HE'S INTO THAT SORT OF THING, HUH?

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

"spilled?"

Perhaps Ichigo has merely seduced Renji in order to get close enough to knee him in the nuts.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That would make sense, except that I don't think I was thinking anything of the sort at the time. Hrm. I know my fingers have often typed strange things because my brain got a sentence or two ahead of thema nd my fingers just picked up something from the next sentence on, but I can't think of what it would be here.

Or maybe he's just into rough trade

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* It may ahve been "splashed".

[estara.livejournal.com]

Renji's breast seems too flat to me. He's like a board!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think the tats are doing a lot of that.

[dissimulatory.livejournal.com]

...and maybe the nipple.

I noticed that Renji seemed a bit flat-chested as well (although not until I ripped my attention away from that damn "x" where their noses meet), and I think you're right about the tattoos being mostly responsible. It also seems to me, however, that the down->up view ought to put his nipple a bit farther "up" (further away from the line denoting the bottom of his pec). As an added bonus: if I'm right, the nipple is a much easier fix than the tats. ...and if I'm wrong... well, then I blame the fact that it's two in the morning. XP

Flat chest and all, though, this pic is awesome. ...and hot. I totally want this scene to exist in the manga.