#emilyko shadow

[kurisusteiner]

Manga: Shadows House

omfg what is that thing, an adult??

[rxmni]

「 It's you ! 」

[alicenpai]

the shadow and her living doll 🌹🌼 print for montreal otakuthon! come see me at next week from aug 11-13 ✌

you can grab it as a print here if you so wish ! WIPs & other thoughts under the cut

shadows house is such a fantastic series & i wholeheartedly recommend it... the story delves into super dark horror elements but doesn't present itself as a story with no hope. hope must be found and then tenaciously gripped with all one's heart, much like pandora's box. it tickles the victorian gothic part of my brain forever imprinted on me since i was 14 haha...

in the first draft i had marionette strings hanging above the characters (kinda reminds me of Erased.. since I just finished rewatching that ahaha...) & shadow puppet hands on the sides, almost as if gripping each character. i decided against it in the end, to let the characters shine in the spotlight (literally).

i also wanted a more active or lively pose, but kept in line with the stiff victorian portrait style, caused by long camera exposure times. i'm not sure if that worked out better bc i'm unsure if this drawing is interesting to people wahahaha.

initially i also wanted more of a dollhouse theme, but each draft got more and more muddy, so i decided to save it for another day (i'm around ch 90 in the manga, so probably a good call to save a more complex idea until i'm all caught up)

^ quick 5 min style test i posted recently! in that post i stated that i wanted to streamline and simplify my art style more, especially after the recent bunch of illustrations i did in the past winter that took way too long to complete, at the sake of my health.

im continually looking for areas to simplify more in my art, but one of the areas i will NOT skimp on is depicting fabric!!!!!

what also helped was working on my sense of structure in my spare time, so that i could be better at depicting form without relying so much on shading to show 3d forms. i love colouring, but i need to be working smarter, not harder from now on. using 100000 shades and highlights is just not feasible anymore wahaha.

in this drawing i loosened up with the bg and kept it rough, inspired by the wonderful xeroxed bgs of 101 dalmatians, and only implied details, rather than actually rendering all of them.

the tldr is that i draw too slowly i just would like to be able to make more drawings more often!!

[starryrock]

Sorry I haven’t been posting Shadows House as much recently. I’ve been devoting my time into a free-for-all Discord server where I made a Shadows House channel. I am the only one to talk in that channel, but I persist.

Slowly but surely, my meme propaganda is working. I just know it.

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[dearlybelovedemilyko]

here's the finished version! i'm really proud of how it turned out, both the modern au designs and the coloring of the clothes 🖤 i tried my best to distinguish between what are supposed to be different types of fabric, hope i succeeded

[keroku-chan]

Barbie is my favourite bebe, she's just too cute

Anyway go fuck yourself Anthony

[ttsun]

" I want to know exactly what I am."

Here's a Kate illustration I made for a Shadows House zine  It is supposed to show all the things that Kate worries about every day, and all the people she wants to save

close ups under read more

[realllyrandommann]

[torterrachampion]

Some bonuses for volume 17

[nomx33]

feeling silly

[dailyfigures]

Emilico ; Shadows House ☆ Phat Company

[kurisusteiner]

Manga: Shadows House

[rxmni]

It's emiram!!!

Pride month is over, but who cares, it's always a good time for them <3

(I'm always late,,,we're not gonna talk abt how much time I've spent on this,, or the body proportions,,,,and ESPECIALLY not talking about that corny ass bg,,, I'm so tired)

white background version:

happy month (belated)

also, shout-out to me for giving emilico two left hands and only noticing it hours after I've finished painting 👍

[sc0rchez]

Old art dump pt 2: Sketch edition

Some of 'em angst, funny and weird

[lilium-dragomir]

[dearlybelovedemilyko]

modern au screenshot redraw work in progress (currently coloring it)

edit: finished colored version here

original under the cut