Backburner Art #14a- The Henry Stickmin Collection (Breaking the Bank)
Art style study/homage to the best flash game series out there.
Henry Stickmin is a greedy sunovabitch. And we love him for it.
This flash series is one of my favorite "CYOA"-style games. Hell, the main fun of the game is seeing how bad Henry fails. Plus the game has that mood where it semi takes itself seriously.
So I wanted to study the artstyle. Did I succeed? I think I did to an extent. Was it fun? Surprisingly so. I don't like using brushes that have anti-aliasing on them (to non-art nerds, anti-aliasing smooths the brush by making it become transparent near the edges, so that you don't get a sharp pixel border), so I'm surprised that I enjoyed this overall experience.
I also drew a piece for each game included in the collection, despite taking only one stream total to complete every single one of them.
This is one of the outside walls of the titular Bank. It's more of a vault in the lore, but the point is that it has money, and we like money.
The shovel is the first ever option presented to you in the entire series, so I figured it will show the humble start Henry has here.
Speaking of, Henry, and all people in general. They're all stick figures, and have shoes and hands on them. Their eyes are long, curved vertical eyes, with eyebrows detached and floating above them. While the main parts of each stick figure make use of the pure black outlines, a lot of lineart is colored. Things also make semi-seldom use of shading, with the heads of stick figures generally having a crescent shade. For anything that is a particular color, it has four colors attached to them: the lineart, the base color, the shading color, and the highlight color. The shading color and highlight color can sometimes change to reflect different lighting effects (this will be seen in different pieces).
Since I drew him with his back to us, I thickened the lines of the "stick" part of the stick figure. Honestly, I don't like it, but I at least got better for the next pieces. In fact, I started understanding a bit more of the artstyle after this one.