Pharos as a Girl

Hello, this is Kaidou Ren Izumi, co-leader of the small but revived Art Squad to remind you of July’s prompt, which is an “art fight”. (See the link for more details, because the prompt will end in a few days.)

Again, make sure that if you do enter, add it in the Art Squad category WITH #ArtGuild. If you don’t have either of those hashtags and put it in the Art Squad category, it won’t count and will be removed. This is so that we can check who participated properly.

Now, onto my submission:

Originally, I planned on drawing a genderbend version of Ryoji, but someone beat me to it. It’s fine, I don’t mind…because I “followed it up” by drawing Pharos instead.

Truthfully, I waited a while to do this because I wanted to see what the results of the poll were. So far (before I finally voted in my own poll), many wanted to draw female characters as male. As such, to try and make things even, I drew a male character (Pharos) as female.

However, since Pharos only appears in pajamas, I had to come up with something to make him look feminine. The solution (aside from having a different hairstyle): a nightgown.

This only took me a few days to do this, albeit, I was considering how to finish it. I eventually decided to finish it as a flat piece for commission demonstration. I wanted to draw a chibi version as well, but not only was I practically out of time, but the base of my spine was (and still is) starting to hurt me badly.

In a nutshell, I had to wear glasses to draw because I couldn’t see very well, which I normally don’t do at all. More important, I had to lean/fold myself forward just to deal with the stippling and coloring process.

Overall, this wasn’t bad at all for something so rushed. I only wished that I came up with some creative backstory for her—and even a name as well!

If you like this full-body flat drawing, you can donate your pocket change in my Ko-Fi. I also take commissions like this as well.