So, one more character for The Salumence Project, a personal project the actual Salumence doesn't even know I created which I'll try to (eventually) tackle all of his story characters. Today is Hades, one of the sources of conflict in his universe. It is also one of his PTRP characters. It also accompanies another hooded version.

This was a huge challenge for me. I'm not used to drawing ful body, but fortunately enough, the classical 'coxinha shape' that many pokémon share made this a lot easier. Also, I had to do 2 very different versions, which is another troublesome thing. I tackled the whole 2 version thing VERY wrongly and ended up having at least 50% more work than required. And I also decided to do a nicer looking BG, which was also nice, but added a bit more of time. And there is also the wings, that I only saw I drew them wrong AFTER I shaded and everything. ;;

Overall, I think that the whole process of drawing Hydreigon took me around 3-4 hours of practice sketch (mostly spent on getting the head), 1h of back and forth feedback and correction for the final sketch, 3 hours cleaning up lines (that was the most inefficient part), 1 hour and a half of base colors (could have saved here, but the inefficient way I did was almost a stress reliever), 1h for light and shading, 1h and a half for BG, 2h for final touching and clean up. Around 13h of work. Yeeep.


Hope you guys like it!