Sungmin, After the Fall, 2019

There was no set purpose for this piece. Instead, this was something I wanted to create freely so that I was able to draw this character, whom I had been itching to draw at that point in time. I had recently discovered a song that inspired this idea, and this painting is what resulted from it. I worked from life, using a photo of a member from a popular Korean boy group as a reference, as well as references for the armor. In the end, I was impressed with myself over how I had rendered the face and lapels of the uniform. I ended up including this as one of my submissions with Angel of War for the Illustrators of the Future contest.

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