Loose:Control

... I want to give it a more pretentious title but I'm not good at those. XD And no, that's not a typo, it is indeed supposed to be loose and not lose.

ANYWAY so I've finally had a bit of a break between commissions, and it was promptly ALL SWALLOWED UP by this picture turning out to be ginormously time-consuming and labor-intensive (not as much as Your Eden - of course, what would be? XD). But AWESOME. Yes, this picture is AWESOME, because it is Tetsuya and it is full of THOUGHT and some SYMBOLISM and COOL THINGS LIKE THAT. And also Tetsuya's hair is down, though you can't tell so much because he's trying to pull it back and tie it again (in case you couldn't figure that out - which you might not be able to, because I suck).

Overall I drew a lot of inspiration for this from =mythchan , because she has some really incredibly detailed and symbolic pictures, but I'm not trying to imitate or copy her work - I just wanted to try my hand at something with a little detail and symbolism in it myself. I hope I've succeeded without being too imitative.

I'm - not sure if I want to explain the symbolism and who the arms belong to (yes - they belong to specific characters, though I've only drawn three of them before and only one of them has a recognizable arm), because I think it'd be cool to hear people's thoughts, but at the same time I love to explain things to DEATH. So I should probably just let you guess and stuff, and maybe write up an explanation in LJ another time.

Details/progress scans: [link]
Explanation of all the symbolism: [link]
Media: Sakura microns, Staedtler brush pen, Prismacolor watercolor pencils, and touches of whiteout, Prismacolor marker, and Prismacolor colored pencil; Photoshop touch-ups consisting mostly of color correction (why does my scanner give everything a CYAN TINT?!) and some spots/paper creases removed, plus the border.

Tetsuya and associated characters © me. Oh yes. Not that anyone else would have them. XD
Art very DEFINITELY © me.