#huh i made more than one lom fanart this year finally lol

[lomappreciationblog]

I am love. Find me, and walk beside me.

We never see the Mana Goddess in LoM in a proper goddess form, but the Teardrop Crystal anime gave her one in the first episode as you can see in my screenshot.

My fanart is my attempt to draw her closer to the game's art style for characters, but admittedly the way I color my illustrations is not at all close to how Mr. Kameoka uses colors. Line art is my forte and colors are where I'm weakest. At the same time, I don't want to copy the game's art style perfectly, I would say my way is inspired by it.

I had this as a wip for so long, but I'm glad I got to finish it!

So, funny story - I actually found the Mana Goddess's anime design kind of generic. Not bad at all, but it didn't feel like the other character designs from the game. However, drawing her and closely looking at the details did give me better appreciation for the design.

Spoiler for the final boss fight for the game under the cut:

I did find it clever how they sneaked in elements of her look from her final boss look.

The pink and purple sprinkled throughout her goddess form are her predominant colors in the boss fight against the corrupted version of herself. The pink and purple in her hair as seen in the anime kind of makes it look like the colors are creeping into her, even.

So, for people who didn't know she was the final boss, it's easy to brush off the use of pink and purple as just the use of other colors to break up all the green in her design, but for people who do know, it's a nice reference.

Also, the huge leaves that frame her back in her goddess form resembles the Sproutlings', being tipped at the end with red, making again a visual connection. Those same huge leaves are also present in her base form in the boss fight!

Btw, I did use somewhat desaturated colors on purpose to again mimic the softer, gentler watercolors of the videogame character art. I'm not sure how to put it, Shinichi Kameoka's art is still very colorful, don't get me wrong, but it's not in a super vibrant way, it feels more earthy and it's so nice to look at without getting overwhelmed.

Me, I kinda shoot up the saturation for my own art lol, so I had to use desaturated tones to get closer to how his art feels. So as a bonus, here's my fanart with how it would look like if I kept my usual level of saturation lol.

The version posted at the very top is how I finished it, this version I tweaked with editing to shoot up the saturation. If you compare the two the first one does end up kind of dull looking I'm afraid, so I still have to learn how to use desaturated colors better. And probably also rethink about how way too vibrant my own art is pfft.