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I drew this gradually over the weekend simply because I felt like trying the style, but also because I wanted to try out compiling a series of images onto a single canvas. I’m thinking I may try to do random illustrations of characters like this over the next I don’t know how many weekends. They may not all be to the same level of completion as this, at least not if there’s this many figures included. This type of image will allow me to sketch/draw whatever I feel like doing at the time, and may serve as a good practice for doing some OC illustrations, since I don’t have to stick to any specific characters, and not being locked into any specific project means I can tinker around more.

Yet again I wanted to test some simple things with a simple style, this time keeping more with the actual style though and trying not to stylize anything too heavily. All I really did differently was thicken up some features, and make Beast Boy’s body less barrel-shaped, as well as changed his weird skeleton nose. Overall I felt this came out alright, but that was more to be expected when following the original style more closely.

This image, like the last one, was done without a background because the entire intent was testing stylistic options, which backgrounds would have distracted from. The testing purpose is also why I went with very simple poses, as I didn’t want to spend time trying to work that in among testing out other things.

So the purpose of this was that I’ve been testing the limits of how far certain simple stylistic options can go. For that purpose I decided to see what would happen if I tried aging up some Teen Titans Go! characters, while also adding some anatomy. I was also trying to not go over a 4 head height system. which is far more typical of younger characters than aged ones, but that’s what made it worth testing.

I feel Beast Boy looks a bit too much like a goblin, and Raven looks too much like a short stack, so I wasn’t a big fan of this test overall, but figuring these things out is sort of the reason to test things out. I’m sure I could have remedied this by making the torsos shorter, or increasing the legs by making these I did it though, and it’s done, so I figured I may as well post it anyway as someone out there might like it.