Junket Bank- King of Hearts

[GRIDHOG]

gambling manga Junket Bank dropped a new character I really like

[yeebus]

ohhhhh this is really cool, I love the texturing. who is this feller?

[GRIDHOG]

Thanks! I love how it turned out, i sanded a playing card for it to have a cleaner base in the middle lmao. texture is super fun to play with especially when you can nicely unify everything with a palettize filter (krita) lol

 His name is Kaburagi Houun. Junket Bank is a manga about a bank that hosts underground death game gambles, and he's one of the higher ups. nicknamed "papa", he's so far just a big loveable fatherly dude. hasn't done much yet on screen since he just showed up, but I like his smile and heart earrings 

[yeebus]

whaaaaat I didnt know it was hand painted, the filter made it look digital but that adds a whole extra layer to this. super cool!

[GRIDHOG]

oh it is digital lmao but when i was painting over a normal playing card scan, the bg was distracting so i sanded the card and scanned it again and i like the effect that had. real playing card fake paint

  but i'm glad it looks convincing! i do paint traditionally often so im picky about how digital paint looks.

[yeebus]

ok mixed media still rocks, dawg, and yeah you brought everything together really cohesively

[cubelily]

seconding what yeebus said, this is awesome

[GRIDHOG]

Thanks! i'm excited about it, feels like one of those 'checkpoint' pieces that marks my improvement as an artist, like "this is the best thing i've made so far. i wonder whats next"