I always draw these three looking sad, so I decided to try drawing them with happier expressions. (Because they deserve everything good ksdhfjsdf)
I know when I traditionally draw lineart, it’s not as clean and polished as my digital lineart, but I feel like I can draw expressions better. (Same with hair; I for some reason, the hair always turns out better when I draw it traditionally.)
And since I already had the lineart sketched out, once I scanned it, I had more energy to focus on coloring. (Digital coloring is so much fun!)
I had a lot of fun with their outfits! Each one was loosely (some more than others) based off of one of their alternate canon outfits (which I will add under the cut).
Other stuff under the cut will be the usual alternate versions (Liet with fluffier hair, these three’s Seasons 1-4 anime eye colors, and Raivis w/ purple eyes, like he was shown with in older artwork).
I was (and still am) in sort of an art slump, so I just sketched my fave trio wearing some fun, spring-ish outfits.
I was also playing with character designs/facial differentiations. Like I tried to give Eduard broader shoulders than the others, since canonly (at least to me, when I look at art of him), he has the broadest shoulders of the three. I also tried to make his face look more on the angular side.
Meanwhile I gave Raivis large eyes and a delicate nose. (I also see him with a rounder face than Ed and Liet, just because he’s younger [in human age, I mean] than them. However, I see him as the thinnest and most ‘unhealthy’ looking of the three. @hesacuriouscat once told me that I draw him like ‘a starving, Victorian child’, which made me laugh XDD)
As for Liet, I drew him with ‘sad’ eyes that slope downwards, though his face is ‘plainer’ than Ed’s or Raivis’s, since he’s described as having a ‘plain face’.
I had so much fun drawing and coloring their outfits (especially Raivis’s)!
Under the cut are the usual extras (Liet with fluffier hair, Liet and Ed with their original anime eye colors, and Raivis with purple eyes):
