Medium: Digital (Krita)

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     With about 8 months post-graduation and who knows how many applications sent, I still hadn't had any luck landing my first job in the games industry (let alone a single interview). To keep myself from sitting around and doing nothing all day, I had at least been forcing myself to work on various projects during the job search. This happens to be one of them.

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The character in this piece is Dark Matter Sword, originally from Kirby's Dream Land 2. I had always thought they looked really cool, so I decided to make them the subject of this piece.

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It was a great excuse to continue my experiments with replicating the process of coloring with colored pencils in a digital medium. I also incorporated a shading technique I had learned a while ago that utilizes hue shifting for highlights/shadows.

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Don't ask how long the cloak took to draw.