#I'll take drawing Jake on his birthday though~

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Day 15 (30 Days | Homestuck - Day 1) - Favourite Human (John Egbert/Jake English)

"Hard to beat a couple o' solid lads"

=Thoughts=

I had hoped to colour this, but there's no way I'll be able to keep up the energy for 30 days if I colour each and every one of them, so I'll settle for "colourable" for the days I do have it.

It's always funny the ways a piece will shift and change, not turning out how you originally intended yet still fitting your image of it. I had intended for John's hand to be more of a wave and Jake's to be more of a finger gun, but the relaxed pose still worked out well (and the hands somehow look semi-decent either way).

I originally had to pick one character to fit the prompt, but I had been drawing Jake a lot recently. I still wanted to draw him since he is my favourite, but John is both a close second and was once previously my first favourite. Not all the prompts are going to be two characters, but a bunch of them are, so it's not so terrible to do two at once.

I didn't really have much energy to draw two characters, but I realised I could do something I hadn't done in a while: Draw in symmetry, and change necessary details to make them distinct. It actually worked out really well here, with both not having to change many details while still making them feel like themselves.

One weakness I'm really noticing right now are jaw angles. Jaws shouldn't be so hard to draw since it's a pretty stable shape, but it seems trying to morph the 3D shape so it looks like an actual jaw often creates malformed faces, and that's not exactly my intent (I may have to explore drawing not-average head shapes at some point)

I suppose another fun point, to wrap it up, is the pose. Without quite realising it, I've managed to draw this pose again, but the angling is different enough that I didn't realise it until looking again for this post. It's most certainly my favourite drawing of it too. I still gotta learn how to make the belly look more natural though~