Cleaned this up from the Loki sketches I posted earlier. The original idea was to have Loki spinning the sword around his finger buuuut I couldn’t make that work out in a way I was satisfied with, so that’s why he’s balancing his sword!
Added some other versions because I couldn’t decide whether to keep the background gradient and to also show it without the shading because I was rather lazy with it.
Cleaned this up from the Loki sketches I posted earlier. The original idea was to have Loki spinning the sword around his finger buuuut I couldn’t make that work out in a way I was satisfied with, so that’s why he’s balancing his sword!
Added some other versions because I couldn’t decide whether to keep the background gradient and to also show it without the shading because I was rather lazy with it.
When I first started drawing Loki’s face, he looked terrifying, but now I feel like I’ve either I’ve moved away from that or I’ve just got used to it and it doesn’t look so unsettling anymore. My goal was to make him not always appear so terrifying so…maybe I’ve succeeded?
If you can, please view it from the mobile app! There is some minor weirdness when not using the mobile app and seeing the full image, but you should still get what I was going for. If you can’t though, you can also view it on Twitter where it appears to work better on desktop, instead of the mobile app. I do have both images below, however!
But because of how transparent images are handled in full view in the web browser by not having a completely black background, the SMILE text is still present. I could remove it, but I like the idea of the SMILE and sparkles vanishing. But it’s good to know for the future if I want to do more transparent image tricks.
Loki came to a teenaged Akechi Goro like the angel of vengeance, like the shadow he had always felt. Loki is Akechi’s anger, Loki is his thirst for vengeance, for justice.
Loki is freedom and rage and terror and no one to hold him tight
