✦ kaenes/kailar/kaenest redraw (5 yrs!!) dam that's a lot of ship names right side for next, left for previous. its a bit goofy silly sometimes but it works. yeah the old one's garbage, i'd pick it apart but I don't think anyone wants to read all that. if I have to point out only ONE terrible thing................ the HAIR. both of them have DOOKIE hair. anyway now they look......... significantly better!!! HUZZAH YIPPEE I'm lowkey finding my art style guys sorry scratch ruined the quality I tried using a tutorial to import it with vector and not bitmap and it worked but then my scratch lowkey crashed and it was being weird and clearing the costumes soooo whatever hopefully I fix it probably not lol ANYWAY ONTO MY FAVORITE PART (aka yapfest!) ART NOTESSSS I really tried to lean into the angel aesthetic? Well for one their wings are HUGEEEE. ok I only have 3 points so stick with me here. Firstly, the clothes. in the original all the angels had what was basically a uniform. It was a long sleeved shirt with a sash and shorts with sandals. first of all Im not and never was christian so IDK why I went with 'angels', but ig this is what I saw them as. for some reason. Kaen, (ig i'll keep calling him that even tho I hate the name for him) in the original, got beautiful angel robes (if you can all those robes) despite everyone seeing him as a messenger of death: they just accept him (well except for two of them. iykyk). Here, I tried to have it in his design more. The bandages, and the dark, almost monotone grayscale, is proof not of what he is, but what the angels think of him; they don't accept him, they're warning others of his 'true nature'. Meanwhile Planes/Skylar/Tempest (I'll call them Skylar,,, sorry if you're confused iykyk I guess TvT) wears the real 'godly' attire (ik angel's aren't gods but ykwim) The colors of gold and white symbolize that they're pure. The standard. Beautiful and good; unlike Kaen. btw I promise they don't look that sleep deprived on my ibispaint. In the end, their outfits are eerily alike: the turtleneck and long, billowy sleeves, some regular pants, and sandals. But I tried to alter them ever so slightly. So similar, and yet so different. secondly, the poses. Kaen's more tense, his knees pulled up, like he's trying to hide. Meanwhile, Skylar is definitely more relaxed. I chose these poses on purpose; no one is there but the two of them, and yet Kaen is still scared. lastly, the background. Obviously the grayscale on Kaen's half is obvious to illustrate the doom and gloom of the 'messenger of death' title. But I also messed around with the perspective transform with the sky..... specifically to make sure that the sun shone over Skylar's head. (I was going to make it around their head, more like a halo, but then the clouds wouldn't show up lol). so basically its less about them.... more about how people see them. which makes me curious; what if Kaen, who's perceived as a ''messenger of death" and a symbol of bad luck, is actually the good guy? While Skylar, the epitome of all things good, is actually not what they seem? will black angel make its comeback? who knows.... also I have a confession. all that black angel art I made was only made for scratch, I never made any (DIGITAL) black angel art on a whim. it was all traditional which I had no way to share back then. like that art dump? ( ) I didn't ACTUALLY draw it and 'dump' it. I thought 'hmm I should post a black angel art dump bc I want views and followers and attention and ppl care about my no-plot only shipping slop'*** and sat down for however long and drew all 4 of those in one day and then kind of tried to make it seem like I did those over a longer course of time. lol. 11-12 year old me was on something. I'd rather read ai writing than black angel lowkey. at least ai is so bad its funny. tba is just bad. ***im insulting myself not the people who liked it btw if you liked it that's cool I love that for you and 11-12 year old me and THANK YOU SO MUCH for the support I LOVE YOU,,,.... HOWEVER I have a WAY different perspective on this now lmao ➜ credits music: biscuit by jack stauber code/art/etc: (zoom in code by ) bg of the art is not by me I just searched up sky and grass featured characters: Kaen (left), Planes/Skylar/Tempest (right);
