Walking into the Sunshine
| Originally released 22 April 2023
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This drawing started out merely as an excuse to draw these two
in the same frame again.
You might notice a style change: this is drawn using
my new vector art style which I have gradually refined
for several years to emulate marker strokes in manga.
Since I'm drawing with mouse (yes, you are reading that correctly),
this style is rather tricky, time-consuming, and require
a lot of care on coloring; these are tradeoffs I made
for its ability to carry a lot of details, nuances, and quirks
in subtle variations of stroke width, in an effort
to make the drawing look more "organic".
In the foreground, I put in a subtle "overexposed" look
to emphasize strong ambient sunlight, and also as an excuse
not to draw a detailed background. And within that
nondescript background, I made another rendering-performance excuse
not to use any SVG filter; so the greenery your are seeing
were actually hacked together from a bunch of gradient-filled
objects, with a nice side effect of making them display properly
under more-primitive SVG viewers which don't support filters.
Yeah, load of excuses were made in drawing this; but the main thing
was I would like to draw something, with these two characters,
that was simple, bright, and radiated comfiness.
I didn't pay too much attention when naming this piece,
but as I was halfway through the drawing, I came to a realization
that this name was similar to the name of an ending credit song
from an old anime film "Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom"
(2002): Banana Ice feat. Konishiki, "Walking into Sunshine~".
(HTM) Walking into Sunshine~ (on YouTube, with English subtitle)
I have listened to this song, but had never tried to find out
the meaning of its lyrics before. It turned out to be a simple song
about friendship, smile, and a promise made under sunshine.
Cliche, but I think it kinda go along well with this piece,
even that these concepts weren't what I originally had in mind
when I started drawing it.
Both characters were last seen together in
(DIR) [2022-06-19] Departure From the Gallery
while the character in the back was last seen in
(DIR) [2022-06-25] Shaky Cameraboy
I should really start putting a real effort into drawing the latter
in consistent fashion.
Copyright (C) 2023 xwindows
This is a free illustration, you can modify and/or
redistribute it under:
(TXT) GNU General Public License
or...
(TXT) Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Unported
or...
(TXT) Free Art License 1.3
Note: The drawing is made for 16:9 aspect ratio, but extra care
was taken to make it look reasonable under 4:3.
To get a 4:3 version, just crop for the middle part
of this drawing.
23 April 2023 edit:
- Added the missing copyright notice.
23 September 2023 edit:
- Correcting the previous edit's date.
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Downloads:
(IMG) Walking into the Sunshine (PNG)
^ 1920x1080 pixels; 424 KiB
(IMG) Walking into the Sunshine (SVG Original)
^ Scalable, nominally 1280x720 pixels; 300 KiB
More from Eventful Scenes:
(DIR) [2025-01-07] Deer Santa
(DIR) [2022-06-25] Shaky Cameraboy
(DIR) [2022-06-19] Departure From the Gallery
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