Ankh (if he were in the TLK universe)

So I love messing around with my favorite characters and turning them into various animals.  It's what I do.  It's probably why if there were a fan art license mine would be revokes rather quickly.

But I couldn't resist imagining Kamen Rider OOO characters in the TLK universe.  People make pony versions of characters.  I think TLK versions are a bit more fitting.

And I figured that if Ankh were in the TLK universe not only would he obviously be a bird like creature (because he's a bird type Greeed), he'd be a cheetah.  Something about his looks screamed "cheetah" to me.  Not just regular cheetah, but king cheetah.  I think it's really just Ryouske Miura's facial features and figure.  He's really slender.  It just registered as feline to me.  Because I'm weird, heh...as for why king cheetah...I dunno.  I really like the spots and stripes on king cheetahs.

But...of course this meant that automatically Shingo has to be a cheetah too.  And by default if I were ever to draw Hina in the TLK universe, she'd have to be a cheetah too.  It's kinda hard to characterize Shingo though 'cause he's...rather bland in looks.  He's an adorable person but the hair and everything is very bland.  There's 3 things that really characterize Ankh well...

1) His hair.  There's really none other like it.
2) His eyes.  Not really color wise (though I usually just take the liberty and make them more on the red side anyways).  But his expressions and the thicker black outline around them is what I mean here.
3) And this is really optional but the hand...the part of him that's actually him.

But for Shingo, there's nothing.  His hair is dull, his eyes are standard.  So Shingo's only Shingo because he's got the same markings as cheetah Ankh.

I think I might do some of these things to the other characters.  I know I'd make Eiji a lion.  But I don't want to make everyone lions so I don't know what I'd do with the other characters.

Majin Badge Walkthrough

Just a little walkthrough showing how I shaded a badge. I tested out a style of shading I haven't practiced in a year or two, but I thought the style would suit the badge rather well.

The character depicted is Majin copyrighted to BlueWolfCheetah on Deviantart. Art is mine though.



Just the base colors. Nothing really drastic or interesting as of yet. Typically I put the base colors of all the markings and such on the same layer, but this time I separated them out in order to do the sort of shading I wanted to.



Lighting is my weakness so I blocked out the direction the lighting is going to be coming from.



Working on the shading. I'm doing it gradient style. Used to be really popular and now that I can actually figure out the style, it's sort of fallen out of popularity a little bit. Shame...it is a beautiful style.



And shading all done. Basically the shading is done on layers of the colors/markings done. Not nearly as much room for mistakes as opposed to if I put the shading on a separate layer from the colors. However to get the right colors to blend together, putting them on the same layer works rather well. If you want to see how it's done, Kuitsuku's tutorial shows it really well: .



Add the background, backlighting, and shine. Had to change the background color so I could clearly see the glowing off the moon and stars so I could go back and tweek them later. Background's just a simple sky. Take two shades of blue. Use the gradient tool and add small stars (put the stars on a separate layer though). The stylized moon and stars...I put a lighter color inside and on a separate layer the glow is the same color as the "inner glow". Use an airbrush on low opacity to get the glow effect.



Eyes are always the last thing I color. Usually I go more detailed than this, but this is a bit more simplified version. The glass in her glasses was the very last detail one. It's a pale blue with a layer of white gradient shine over it. Bother layers are lowered in opacity to give the illusion of glass.

This is more of a walkthrough than a tutorial. However if you have any questions about the process, don't hesitate to ask. Most of this can possibly be covered in Kuitsuku's tutorial however.