Backburner Art #14e- The Henry Stickmin Collection (Fleeing the Complex)

I brought the Distraction Dance up to the surface.

Each character here has different poses within the Distraction Dance. I planned on having more characters here (including Grigori, which is what I accidentally called the goatee'd Dmitri in this pic), but I though three was plenty. Also, I think these are the primary poses of the dance, any other will be an inbetween.

I'm really goddamn proud of how Dmitri turned out here, with his mustache and goatee. Ellie looks nice here too, though I could've done better with the hair up top. Henry is just peak, so we shall assume that is the case always.

This background was gonna be a different location, but I was feeling lazy, and I wanted to just attempt the ground where you can't see the horizon. It's snowing, so it's just snow, with a dirt road. For such a bland sounding background, I'm surprised that it doesn't look bad here. It gives me the idea that I don't always have to draw a horizon line for the background. Somehow, with a few specks of lines scattered across the snow, it gives the impression of some ground surface.

The snowflakes falling is, yet again, more lines. Still manages to look like snow somehow, I can't tell if it's just natural for it to look like snow in this art style, or if it just looks like that normally.

For certain colors, they change slightly when in certain environments. In this dark, snowy area, the white of the stickmen are slightly leaning towards blue (even if it's saturated a bit). This makes them fit more into the environment, making it look more like they're actually inside it.

Speaking of the environment, the thing that I mentioned in Backburner Art #14c- The Henry Stickmin Collection (Stealing the Diamond), I did it here. Did a shaped gradient on the entire piece, which is done in dark environments to show that it's kinda moody. It also is the final cherry on top that ties the whole piece together, for me at least.