Character Design WIP - Ryo (Patreon)

Hi everybody!

Here's a character design project that I've been working recently: A new costume for Ryo. Some of you might be familiar with this guy already since I've been drawing him from time to time over the course of the last years. He belongs to my friend DriftingEmbers (Twitter/X) and this new design is based on the original sketches drawn by him (last two pictures).

It's imporant to mention that although the main design that I worked was based off my friend DriftingEmber's sketches, my take on this design and its subsequent iterations were also inspired by the first depiction of it by VanEvil's art (fourth picture). All that's left now is defining some last details before I work on the final character artwork, which you'll see next month (I'll make sure to make a Patreon only version as well ;)).

On a different note, I apologize for the lack of activity in the last days. I've been very busy these days and also I took the weekend completly off because I was feeling very burnout.

Now I feel so much better and I'm very motivated to keep working on my art projects. Speaking of it, Haohmaru won the last poll as the character to be drawn next for my Muscle Art Pin-Up series, but if I'm being honest, I've been reflecting much about it and I took the decision to commit more to it. See, Haohmaru has been one of those characters that I've been wanting to draw for so long, and now that that the opportunity to do so arises, I'd like to make a full illustration of it, and for that reason, I might delay October rewards for some days, and it will also be one of those situations where I will include that project in both October and November term rewards, although the only difference will be that patrons who supported me in October will get the rewards first. I promise to keep you all updated on the matter, I'll start working on it tonight so expect a preview very soon!

If you read up to this point: Thank you! Have a happy Halloween and be safe if you go out trick or treating! :)

DriftingEmber's Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/DriftingEmbers
VanEvil's DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/vanevil