127 - 13th Sketch of the Month - 🏆 (Patreon)

Happy Hump day, everyone. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I mean.. ',:]c
I didn't say anything when I saw this character being nominated, but I knew this's gonna win. Just like back in the day when Lae'zel won shortly after Baldur's Gate 3 got out and there was a monthly sketch event the following month.

Here are the results for March's voting race:

• With 3 votes, Dagath (from Warframe) got to the 3rd place.
• With 4 votes a random Argonian (from Skyrim) raised up to be at the 2nd place.
• And with 10 votes, "Helldiver soldier" ended topping them all at the 1rst place. 🏆

The nomination didn't specify whether it should be a male or a female soldier, so I decided to go for both.
- The videogame that the character is from (Helldivers 2)'s been out for a month, so I had to dig for references. The SFM Steam Workshop doesn't have any models (yet?), and I didn't know where to go to look at fanarts so I could have checked for details of the helmets. In the end, I was looking at google images. Still, there weren't that much..
- I don't own the game, so I couldn't get any references myself, and I haven't checked any gameplays cuz I don't want to spoil myself how this game looks if I want to get it myself and want the joy of experiencing things firsthand later.

- I could find some pictures of the base/default(?) helmet, but I don't really know how these guys look armor/suit-wise.. Thus they got naked in my sketch... xd
I know they wear capes... but if I had added that, that would have covered too much goods. I couldn't even check what's the difference between a male and female outfits either, I noticed they wear some skirt-like dress thingy? So at least I added that part to the chick here.
I once stumbled upon some pictures that might have been of higher ranked armor; it had some random yellow rope hangings on the torso.. I imagined the chick in my drawing is a higher rank, so I added that to her back.. Not much but.. eh..
I also made a naked alt version that's an exclusive for Tier2 and above patrons: here
- I saw a few gameplay footage of the game, and people like to jump to the ground a lot. Also the game sometimes becomes a bit brutal, so I added a few scars on these two. Hope you don't mind some markings, proof of being in and survived some good fights. Also idk if those bruises are too much around the butt and intim area.. I thought it would just show that the chick's doing some hard work on something hard. :]c
- That cockring is a first time showing up in my artist journey. Thought I'd add that for a higher difficulty level for the guy's endurance training.. P;
- I added that little text in the bottom right corner as a test. I actually wanted to remove it the next time I went back working on it, but my baguette friend told me to leave it there so... Thank him for not leaving that part out. xd
- Hope you noticed how I replaced the little skull on the helmet with a little heart. :3c Made that change without thinking whether or not I should do it. xd It's definitely a smutbase kind of addition on the artpiece. B]
- I was hesitating how to colour or style this sketch. I didn't have a clear picture nor plan in my mind when working on this, I was just going with the flow. Overall I like how soft the picture came out. Kinda reminds me of my first For Honor drawing.. Must be the fact that it's also of 2 humans.......... oh... and it's also a chick topping... damnit, I gotta switch it up the next time I do something like this. xD

So there you have it, you guys got Helldivers2 content thanks to.. well, thanks to the one who nominated and to those who have voted for it (and me who did it); I hope you like the results! :>
I've made this before the votes have even ended, cuz I wanna finish a few projects BEFORE THE FALLOUT SERIES IS OUT, cuz damn... I haven't watched the trailer so nothing would be spoiled for me.. I'm gonna be so addicted and hooked-up, man. xd I fear that, and also fear of utter heart-breaking disappointment.. My kokoro is too old and suffered so much already, man.. ;~;

Thank you once again for everyone who participated in this!
Hopefully I uh... pictured the characters "well" in this, heh. xd
Eventho I'm pretty much out of the picture and the game's hype, I feel like I'd be really into it if I could play. Feels like the next thing after warframe.
I enjoyed working on this and feel like I'd be okay for more. Like; Cool and Masked characters? Hell Yea! ✨👌😎