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Date: 8.29.2011

The Story:
Neliel Tu and Tia Halibel in #3 Oakland Raiders jerseys. This one was originally requested by Sketchfan , however I was willing to do his OC with another character instead. I decided to go ahead with this one anyway while my list was low. I finally got around to finishing this one.

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The Breakdown:
I am pretty familiar with these characters, so I didn’t really need much help in terms of references.

I decided to start with Nel first, thinking the skull on her head would be harder to do. That provided a challenge, but little did I know that would be the least of my problems. I knew what I wanted with her pose, mind you it was one I had done before, but I thought it would work for her. Everything would go smoothly until I got to doing Halibel’s hair. There seemed to be a different style with each picture I’ve seen, and since I did this sketch at work, I didn’t have access to the episodes where she appears. I did consider trying her with that mask on, but eventually I decided against it. It would look more “Raider Fan” if I did that, and it looked like her hair would be easier, but it would just open up a whole new set of problems. After about seven tries with her hair, I was finally satisfied with what I saw, and moved on. There weren’t any other issues afterwards.

I have done each of the Raiders’ jerseys before, and it’s actually one of the easier ones to do. The major trick here was to distort the numbers on the jerseys. Since a majority of Kubo’s characters are very top-heavy, it does present a challenge doing so. This time, I think I did well there. The road uniform that Nel wears needed a slightly different approach in that there is a silver outline around the numbers which the home uniform does not have.

I’m still going with this same style of background that I’ve been using recently, following the design from some old basketball cards that I found laying around the apartment. I decided to add a larger copy of this image to keep it from looking too plain.

What I Like Most:
Recently I’ve tweaked the way I draw their eyes, and I am glad I did. I like them much better than the way I did it before. I really like Nel’s expression here, I actually didn’t know what I was going to do there, and somehow this happened. Mind you it’s nothing very elaborate or exciting, but I felt this actually worked here.

What I Dislike Most:
As I mentioned before, I wasn’t too sure what to say about Halibel’s hair, there seems to be a different style with each picture I’ve seen. Since the sketch was done at work, I didn’t have access to the episodes where she appears. I didn’t like how the eyelashes came out…it’s really a character design thing, that’s the way they’re actually done. It doesn’t look very good when I’m doing it.

Credits:
Neliel and Halibel are © Tite Kubo

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Orsini1983's avatar
They must be fans of Raiders quarterback Derek Carr.