He is such a buff boy :3

He is. Shirota has such a great body type, even if muscles are hard to draw.

How do you draw the muscles? :3

Hmm, I've been practicing them a lot lately, and have used a lot of tutorials. The way that I do it is that I will often, in my own time, find pictures that I can trace and break down into shapes to try and better understand how they form, and how I can simplify them to match my style somewhat. It is definitely a learning process. : P

That's pretty clever! I'm more open to seeing more art from you in that case. :3

Thank you! I appreciate that. :3 Hopefully I will be able to find the time and energy to post more soon.

Same here. :3 I'm starting to get back to drawing and animating.

That's cool! Animating is always something that I wanted to get into, but have been intimidated by. Did you make your icon?

Yes I did. :3

Cool! It's really cute.

Thank you! :3

No problem! : )

How do you come up with backgrounds? I admit I struggle with those.

Oh, I don't do proper backgrounds very often unless I have a specific idea, to be honest. A lot of the time, including with this picture, I'll just either leave it transparent or put some sort of a solid colored shape behind it to make it pop. If it's a piece I'm feeling especially proud of, I'll put a gradient or some sort of pattern or texture. With this one, I just used a sparkle brush that I found in a set on Clip Studio Assets and thought was cute. As for proper backgrounds, when I have that sort of energy: Lots of brainstorming, referencing, and pain, as well as liberal use of 3D assets where applicable.

Oh even just normal color I don't know what to think of

Ohh. Hmm, when I can't think of a color, I'll often spend a lot of time just fiddling around with the color wheel and placing them down until I find one that I think looks nice with the rest of it. It can be time consuming, but eventually I find something I like, or if I can't I'll just go for transparent or white, haha.

Sometimes, I will use one of the same colors in my color correction layer, or I'll even put on a Multiply, Overlay, etc layer, mess with transparency if need be, copy one of the results from that, and then delete the layer and see if the color I got works well as a background.

That's kind of what I did with this one; the purple is what color the pants looked like when I had the gradient map on this turned up to 100%: https://tinyurl.com/crotchpurple

Ohhhh that's how you do it?

Yep, pretty much. Nothing fancy, really.

Oh I see. Thanks a lot

Sorry. I'm not very good at explaining things.

Nah, it's okay! Thanks!!

I share your feelings to a T. Retsuko was insane to let this absolute hunk of purity slip out of her hands. I really wish he would be brought back into the story. Not even for her sake, just mine.

Anyway, absolutely love this piece! Thank you for giving him the attention he deserves.

Right?? He was so damn gorgeous and kind hearted. If there was some way to be sure we'd be seeing him more in the next season, for basically any reason, I wouldn't even be worried about anything else that happened.

Thanks a ton! I'm really happy that you liked it. He absolutely deserves all the love in the world, and we can only hope that more will come to realize this truth. : P