Finally finished this artwork. It took wayyy too long.
I'm an XP Pen person but I don't have it rn, thus the mouse only part. At first, it was actually pretty fun working with the limitation of using a mouse. Then I was just in pain (the hair T-T). Then it was fine again yippee! Just happy to make a good fanart of my favourite tank :)
A little context for the "accidentally" part: I use XP-Pen. After moving to uni, I didn't bring it with me. In desperation, I attempted some alternative methods because I just wanted to draw so badly. I grabbed a random reference from Pinterest without realising it was Aurora (which keeps happening to me ;-;) to test. Unfortunately, I got invested. The other methods were straight whack, so I started to use my mouse instead, despite being aware of the pain it would cause. Surprise, surprise... Things worked out, and now I have a rather decent artwork to show.
Coincidentally, I started to like Aurora around the time of doing this, so this became accidental fanart.
These together are also why I straight up didn't post on Reddit (I had posted this and the timelapse on Instagram) since it didn't occur to me, "Oh yeah, auroramusic is probably a subreddit I can post this on." Only after posting about a different artwork (also on mouse) did I realise I could post it here. :P Oh well, enjoy.
The wing is on the wrong side. I did that on purpose because I thought the composition just looked better this way. I've been busy, so progress is slow, but I want to get this wing thing clarified before I reach a point of no return.
Just wanted to know if the wing on the right is a fine enough use of artistic liberty, or if Angela's wing being on her left is symbolic or something and I'm committing blasphemy of some sort. For context, I'm not a Marvel fan, just a Rivals player, so I don't know the history. Comics are fun, but I just can't get into it, especially something as whack-smack as the Marvel multiverse.
Also, don't get excited about seeing the final result soon. Uni has me busy ( T-T), and I don't have access to my XP Pen right now (thus, mouse and keyboard only), which makes progress painstakingly slow. That arm took me almost three days when it should've been a few hours. This thing has NO pressure sensitivity, and the only reason I'm able to do any of this at all is because of a single rough brush I have that can technically "mix" (use the rough edge to layer colours over each other) to achieve the closest thing to pressure sens. I dread the time when I have to shade all the gold parts.