These are amazing! I absolutely love seeing the works-in-progress and how they build toward the more complete versions. It reminds me of watching a Polaroid develop as the different colors fill in. Except 1000x cooler!!!
The interplay of light and shadow on ZYL's face is so intriguing from the initial sketch to how it all looks perfectly natural in the last version. And the things that stay the same, like the direction of his eyes and the shape of his lips, are kinda like ... um ... touchpoints? signposts? I dunno, but it's so cool to see how the basic shapes stay the same throughout, so that even the sketchiest* ZYL is recognizably ZYL.
*I mean, most minimally sketched. ZYL is *always* a bit sketchy. (points to icon) ;-)
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The interplay of light and shadow on ZYL's face is so intriguing from the initial sketch to how it all looks perfectly natural in the last version. And the things that stay the same, like the direction of his eyes and the shape of his lips, are kinda like ... um ... touchpoints? signposts? I dunno, but it's so cool to see how the basic shapes stay the same throughout, so that even the sketchiest* ZYL is recognizably ZYL.
*I mean, most minimally sketched. ZYL is *always* a bit sketchy. (points to icon) ;-)