Throwback Thursday Redraws: 90s Fashion Midori
Back in November I redrew a bunch of really old art and posted up the side by side of SUPER OLD ART and CURRENT ART on my instagram. I fell off on cross posting them here and I’d like to get back to it because I think they’re really interesting to compare.
The
original drawing is a 1999 “modern fashion” pin-up of one of my high
fantasy OCs, Midori. I didn’t have any formal training so for a super
long time I just drew people standing there staring at the camera, but
by this point I was starting to look at fashion magazines to learn basic anatomy and posing. I followed a lot of artists who did
the heavy outline/thin interior line style and this was probably one of
my most successful attempts at trying it myself.
For my redraw I
took a completely different approach and focused on character acting and
emotion over trying to emulate a specific inking style. I have been using a thinner line in my art the last couple years (I think because I spent a long time using fat lines to hide my mistakes, oops) so the redraw has a super different look!
Midori is a very grumpy come-at-me-bro
character and I tweaked her pose to be less vacant more expressive. I think I’m happiest with the way the drawing conveys some of that personality now, and the way her body has weight and seems to take space rather than floating. Pretty happy with this redraw, actually!