Aruni - Neon Dawn Reveal

So here's the initial sketch for the concept of the drawing, once I was approached by ubi I quickly doodled a composition approach as to how I was going to go about the drawing. I knew I wanted her to do an action pose, with her pet rat on her shoulder.

Here are the final lines I ended up with; I referenced a pose using the 3d tool on Clip Studio Paint to help me pin down the perspective of her pose. The line art was done and flats were assigned after.

I coloured in the flats and started shading plus using halftones which I adore using, and the process is slowly coming together. It was hard to come up with a fitting background for it, but I was inspired by her gadget to do so.

And here's the final artwork! Thanks again to Ubi for the opportunity to work on this before the final reveal, as a Thai person this character means a lot to me for representation. Thanks for reading!

Bonus: A small doodle of Aruni and Hero reacting to some of the comments I got under my final artwork I shared on twitter!