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One of my favourite scenes in NIER.
I've had the idea for this for a long time, but I've only recently gotten around to actually doing it. Unfortunately, it didn't quite turn out how I pictured it in my head all this time or laid it out as a tiny rough sketch.

It was supposed to be longer horizontally, with Jack of Hearts and Nier more centered "as one" rather than Jack being cut off and Nier somewhat centered by himself. Nier was also supposed to be higher off the bottom of the image to more clearly show that he's actually leaping in the air and looking down towards the ground ('cause I'm sure it's hard to tell here).

I tried laying out my original intentions numerous times, but I always ran out of space on the paper trying to cram everything I wanted to in and in a decent scale so that Nier wasn't tiny. It was very frustrating that I eventually just gave up and had to settle for some adjustments that resulted in this. This is already made up of three 8.5 x 14 sheets of paper pieced together, and it was very awkward doing that.

I'm quite disappointed that the framing of the picture is so off compared to what I wanted to do.

I could've helped the "looking down towards the ground" aspect a bit by drawing ground scenery to show that it's not the sky in the back, but I'm horrible at drawing scenery and objects in general; I'm sure trying to draw anything at a downward angle would've resulted in disaster so I didn't even bother trying.

I'm not entirely happy with how Nier turned out. I feel like I foreshortened his lower half too much in comparison to his pretty normal upper half. It looks unbalanced. I also did a horrible job with the back of his hair 'cause I didn't quite get what the heck it should even look like.

I had a lot of trouble drawing Jack's head, partially because he got cut off and it's awkward trying to imagine what isn't fitting on the page and draw from it so that what is fitting on the page actually looks right (not sure I explained that well enough...). The tentacle things didn't turn out how I wanted them to, partly because of the space issues. And I just noticed that there should probably be one or two more of the bigger tentacle things visible here behind his head. I don't know how I overlooked that.

I originally meant to draw Nier's head looking more towards Jack, but I didn't like the idea of his face not being visible. Though by making it visible at this angle, it kinda looks like he's not looking at Jack at all. I could say he's just in mid-turn of his head (as his body is in mid-turn) but it still looks off.

Aside from all that...I guess I'm OK with how the rest of the picture turned out.
It gave me a lot of trouble, but it was pretty fun overall drawing Nier's costume. The black things around the Dark Hand took a while, but they were fun too. And I wasn't sure how I was going to go about it at first, but once I got into it and finished it all, the yellow patterns on Jack were really fun and I'm happy with how it turned out (even though I'm pretty sure there's inaccuracy compared to the game).

The colours and tone I used are different from what I usually use, but I wanted to try to keep closer to what the game looked like. So I didn't go too crazy with the colours of the shading (the red of the Dark Hand is all vibrant red for example; I'd normally have it more desaturated and shaded with a dull purplish colour). I made everything else colder and tried to apply a light foggy effect like in the game at this part.

I was considering doing a fully-charged Dark Hand of five fists, but there's no way I would've fit that on here.

Description
One of my favourite scenes in NIER.
I've had the idea for this for a long time, but I've only recently gotten around to actually doing it. Unfortunately, it didn't quite turn out how I pictured it in my head all this time or laid it out as a tiny rough sketch.

It was supposed to be longer horizontally, with Jack of Hearts and Nier more centered "as one" rather than Jack being cut off and Nier somewhat centered by himself. Nier was also supposed to be higher off the bottom of the image to more clearly show that he's actually leaping in the air and looking down towards the ground ('cause I'm sure it's hard to tell here).

I tried laying out my original intentions numerous times, but I always ran out of space on the paper trying to cram everything I wanted to in and in a decent scale so that Nier wasn't tiny. It was very frustrating that I eventually just gave up and had to settle for some adjustments that resulted in this. This is already made up of three 8.5 x 14 sheets of paper pieced together, and it was very awkward doing that.

I'm quite disappointed that the framing of the picture is so off compared to what I wanted to do.

I could've helped the "looking down towards the ground" aspect a bit by drawing ground scenery to show that it's not the sky in the back, but I'm horrible at drawing scenery and objects in general; I'm sure trying to draw anything at a downward angle would've resulted in disaster so I didn't even bother trying.

I'm not entirely happy with how Nier turned out. I feel like I foreshortened his lower half too much in comparison to his pretty normal upper half. It looks unbalanced. I also did a horrible job with the back of his hair 'cause I didn't quite get what the heck it should even look like.

I had a lot of trouble drawing Jack's head, partially because he got cut off and it's awkward trying to imagine what isn't fitting on the page and draw from it so that what is fitting on the page actually looks right (not sure I explained that well enough...). The tentacle things didn't turn out how I wanted them to, partly because of the space issues. And I just noticed that there should probably be one or two more of the bigger tentacle things visible here behind his head. I don't know how I overlooked that.

I originally meant to draw Nier's head looking more towards Jack, but I didn't like the idea of his face not being visible. Though by making it visible at this angle, it kinda looks like he's not looking at Jack at all. I could say he's just in mid-turn of his head (as his body is in mid-turn) but it still looks off.

Aside from all that...I guess I'm OK with how the rest of the picture turned out.
It gave me a lot of trouble, but it was pretty fun overall drawing Nier's costume. The black things around the Dark Hand took a while, but they were fun too. And I wasn't sure how I was going to go about it at first, but once I got into it and finished it all, the yellow patterns on Jack were really fun and I'm happy with how it turned out (even though I'm pretty sure there's inaccuracy compared to the game).

The colours and tone I used are different from what I usually use, but I wanted to try to keep closer to what the game looked like. So I didn't go too crazy with the colours of the shading (the red of the Dark Hand is all vibrant red for example; I'd normally have it more desaturated and shaded with a dull purplish colour). I made everything else colder and tried to apply a light foggy effect like in the game at this part.

I was considering doing a fully-charged Dark Hand of five fists, but there's no way I would've fit that on here.