2025 Blue Horizon art progress page by naila moonsi.
12/26/24. Painterly progress #2. OC Antonio Chandrani-Rivera red eye caliente blast. Spoilers for Blue Horizon: Bright Days, Sad Days comic 4.
Added: Glowing red eye for the eye of Antonio that's open (as he has one closed in his upset expression). Way more than typical.
Earlier: The lit-up skin highlights increase to both cheeks on Antonio and are added to the forehead.
Main description: Extremely early painterly version for the face of Antonio from the panel where Antonio quickly gets in Alejandro's bed. His red eyes seem irritated or bothered and his lips are in a frown while seeming about to speak. There's painterly shine on his brown skin. He has dark blue hair like waves and wears a darker blue undershirt.
Unrendered is Alejandro who is grinning a little apologetically with his red eyes seeming pleased Antonio has decided to lay down. He has dark violet long hair and light bronze skin. He wears a red undershirt. The pillows behind them are pink and light blue respectively. The cover is pink and the bedding is lavenderIt finally glows the way it's supposed to. Since I haven't tried before now, I kinda prefer the non-rendered version since it focuses on the "pupil" which houses their soul energy (empath powers). (The implication is soul light that overwhelms the color of the pupil.)
That eye glow can just be supernatural soul light instead of regular eye lights until I figure out a better way to showcase that IG hahahaha.
Note: "Caliente blast" is a play on "baja blast." My pun work is not amazing. I was otherwise going to title the post "he shall be baked by antonio's red eye alhamdulillah."
12/26/24. Painterly progress #1. Brown skin highlights. First attempt ever. Spoilers for Blue Horizon: Bright Days, Sad Days comic 4.
I like dropping WIPs too much. SO.
A big goal of mine was trying out painterly style for the Blue Horizon OCs. A thing I'm obsessed with re: some people's art is their ability to get the shine of light on brown to dark brown skin on especially old-school photographs down beautifully. I have childhood photographs of me with that look. I'm unsure if I'll get to the level of some artists do, but I decided to experiment with a panel from episode 4 of the Blue Horizon: Bright Days, Sad Days' comic on my OC Antonio Chandrani-Rivera.
Main focus: Cartoon-focused very low lit-up skin highlight on Antonio's lower cheek.
Extremely early painterly version for the face of Antonio from the panel where Antonio quickly gets in Alejandro's bed. His red eyes seem irritated or bothered and his lips are in a frown while seeming about to speak. There's painterly shine on his brown skin. He has dark blue hair like waves and wears a darker blue undershirt.
Unrendered is Alejandro who is grinning a little apologetically with his red eyes seeming pleased Antonio has decided to lay down. He has dark violet long hair and light bronze skin. He wears a red undershirt. The pillows behind them are pink and light blue respectively. The cover is pink and the bedding is lavender.
The lit-up skin highlights increase to both cheeks on Antonio. I'm fonder of this one.
The lit-up skin highlights increase to both cheeks on Antonio and are added to the forehead. While it was interesting to see how lighting works, I'll keep working on making the highlights look more cohesive as I keep working on this.I'm not totally satisfied with the last WIP attempt, but I'm unsure if it just looks odd without similarly non-cel-shade hair rendering or not. We'll see later!