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5 Morning Tony
🕑 Added 2023-06-15 18:22:21 +0000 UTCYes. This would be the last one. But it is not anymore.
Obviously the twin piece to Davo's after he finally finished doing his "hair" and a sleepy Tony can go in and get ready.
I didn't originally plan it for this but I had the picture of a bird character "brushing their beak" in mind for a long time. And it is obviously a silly idea so I knew it would be perfect for Tony.
Actually I also thought about having Zara brushing her beak and Tony flossing it because that's even sillier, but at the end I gave flossing to Diana because it worked better with her species.
The background is, of course, the same from Davo's piece but a little bit more to the left, Which makes Davo's one a little bit more funny because it reveals that Davo has his own shelves for his hair products.
The idea of moving the background is to give Davo and Tony's piece a sense of symmetry. In one the mirror is to the left and in the other to the right.
Diana and Zara's pieces also have this symmetry but in a simpler way, as their mirror is wide I just had to move them around. Zara to the right and Diana to the left. And of course I'm spoiling it from now but Lil's and RJ's pieces also have a sense of symmetry.
Another detail I could mention about the background is the cracks in the wall. They appear not only here but in a lot of my work. It's inspired by the cracks you could often see in buildings around my town after the 2017 México earthquake. I add them to the walls in my art often to make the walls feel less like empty spaces in the composition but also because I feel it gives the backgrounds a sense of history and lived-inness. I often feel like whatever town my characters live in suffered a similar earthquake or something like that.
A final detail that separates this one from the others is that this one happens to have an extra alt version. When designing Tony's clothes for this I decided one should be a t-shirt with a dumb stamp on it. So I first did a picture of Snoopy as "Joe Joe Cool" doing a JoJo pose and with one of the famous Jojo's Bizarre adventure' onomatopoeias behind him.
But after that I felt it was a little bit derivative so I did a new design of a cool looking dog posing in front of an upbeat lettering that reads "Clinical Depression". I messed up the lettering a bit in the end and it kind of reads "Liminal Depression" Which is kind of Better honestly.
But in the end I rendered both as I had completed them already so what the hell?
Comments
Juan Daniel Campos Hernandez
Oh yeah! Youre right, I totally got that idea from Rio without noticing lol
Morlund
A cute macaw brushing his beak in the morning is instantly reminiscent of Blu from Rio! X3 I've been wondering about the background wall cracks for some time and it's nice to finally find out the reason for them, I've always thought they give your pics an even more NITW-like vibe and makes the world your characters live in seem even more 'real.' :)
