Ghost Trick tribute

A group artwork from June 2011. I am interested in re-doing this.

Description: Yomiel looking fly as hell, with Sissel at his side. A medley of characters and props appear in the background. The negative space is white, with Yomiel’s shadow cutting into it.

There was a different version which was bathed in blue-green light. It was more stylized. I’m so sad I lost it...

Background characters

• Jeego and Tengo
• Cabanela
• Jowd (I bet I was too afraid to draw his face)
• Lynne
• Missile
• Kamila
• Sissel again
• Ray

Props

• Crane and wrecking ball
• Guns
• Bicycle
• Chicken
• Red flag
• Donuts and bowl
• Car tire
• Fish tank
• Cogs and gears
• Sweet potato on a stick

What would I do differently next time?

• It would be more stylized like in the lost alternate version. (Ooh, how mysterious!)
• Take inspiration from movie posters, especially Bob Peak
• Include more characters. I want to include Beauty, Dandy, and Detective Rindge, to name a few. 

Other thoughts

• It would be cool to draw it in reference to the Ghost World. O m g. An old school VHS vaporwave aesthetic would SLAP. I remember having a headcanon that the story takes place in the 1980s. 
• The vaporwave CRT screen idea excites me, but I would also love a VHS tape box style as well. 
• In the spirit of the original and its lost alternate counterpart, I should make two versions of this artwork. The world of the living represented by the vhs tape box. The ghost world represented by old, blurry CRT graphics.

Emily with a scottish fold kitty

 

Things I miss about my art in 2011

 A snapshot of my art style in 2011. I will be writing about characteristics I want to preserve or bring back.

• Notable characteristics

• Blurry overlay to create an ethereal effect

• Soft blurry shading

• Drawing

• Thin linework to accentuate softness

• Crisp outlines

• Color and shading

• Pastel colors

• A relatively narrow range of hues

• High contrast shading used sparingly

• Colors flow together to create a soft, ethereal feel

• Hair: Fine strands

I like the fact that it's both crisp and blurry at the same time. I struggle with deciding to give things definition or to leave it vague. This is an interesting solution, especially for the art I like to draw. I enjoy the ambiguity.

Love the pastel colors on this one. Minimal shading and very subtle gradients. Also, kitty~ This would be a good reference point if I ever get back into cel-shading (this was specifically cel shaded for a charity commission event)

This was an entry for a coloring contest on Deviantart hosted by the user Gasara. I have always liked how her midriff coloring came out. The coloring is soft, blurry, and ethereal, but still crisp enough to have definition. I really want to bring this coloring style back.

Letters from the dead

 

In the sky

 

A girl and her owl

 

In a world where owls were domesticated. Like cats but they can fly!

Crescentius under the sky