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CMみて思い出した
The original entry can be found here.
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Included in this month’s issue, you will receive a poster and a double-sided colour pencilboard as extras.
The pattern on the pencilboard is as advertised; the poster is the first part of a 4 parts set that will be released in the coming months.
Claude goes first.
You can assemble 4 posters into a large poster!
As for the cover, for some reason people already guess it, it’s a present image of the flashback scene in vol.8.
Because many were saying “I want to see it in full colour!” so I took this opportunity to do it.
The anime has come to season 2, Ciel/Sebastian’s relationship as master-butler has matured over 3 years time, with such image in mind.
Until now I have not done any so-called “rework” art. But being the most popular Sebastian/Ciel two-shot, I guess I may as well try it once.
It’s not like I’m trying to cut corners. (lol)
But to tell the truth, I think about mature images too much that even Ciel’s face becomes too mature looking. (sweating lol)
How I wish I can draw old men and kids in a consistent manner. Still lack in experience.
Sebastian and Ciel don’t like each other much so the composition of the picture is a challenge as it has always been.
To have them stick intimately together, what would that be like… Basically I avoid touching, but the cover size is fixed and I couldn’t find a composition layout pattern that they could possibly avoid touching each other.
At any rate I have been drawing this pair for about 4 years so I often feel like “I have done this before”.
I’m struggling to avoid it.
Besides it’s such a headache to place these two in the same picture due to their difference in height! No way I can do a front view with them side by side.
Because it’s for commercial use I have often been told to do a front view of characters in standing position, but more often than not I can’t seem to achieve it.
(Come to think of it, I heard the same thing from anime staff during Season 1. I guess it’s more so because the tv screen is wide.)
But lately I have started thinking maybe I should do more touching scenes.
They don’t like each other much that’s for sure, but as master and servant there’re possibilities in composition I should explore.
I have always drawn Alois and Claude touching each other. That piece in Black Tabloid is no different.
The director has said so too, Alois is the touchy feely type of person whilst Ciel is the type to push others away.
I tried to demonstrate a slight sense of distance with their expressions in this illustration, but it’s not possible for me. orz
Still a long journey ahead.
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