Walking into the Sunshine

	Walking into the Sunshine

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	This drawing started out merely as an excuse to draw these two
	in the same frame again.

	You might notice a style change: this is drawn using
	my new vector art style which I have gradually refined
	for several years to emulate marker strokes in manga.
	Since I'm drawing with mouse (yes, you are reading that correctly),
	this style is rather tricky, time-consuming, and require
	a lot of care on coloring; these are tradeoffs I made
	for its ability to carry a lot of details, nuances, and quirks
	in subtle variations of stroke width, in an effort
	to make the drawing look more "organic".

	In the foreground, I put in a subtle "overexposed" look
	to emphasize strong ambient sunlight, and also as an excuse
	not to draw a detailed background. And within that
	nondescript background, I made another rendering-performance excuse
	not to use any SVG filter; so the greenery your are seeing
	were actually hacked together from a bunch of gradient-filled
	objects, with a nice side effect of making them display properly
	under more-primitive SVG viewers which don't support filters.

	Yeah, load of excuses were made in drawing this; but the main thing
	was I would like to draw something, with these two characters,
	that was simple, bright, and radiated comfiness.
	I didn't pay too much attention when naming this piece,
	but as I was halfway through the drawing, I came to a realization
	that this name was similar to the name of an ending credit song
	from an old anime film "Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom"
	(2002): Banana Ice feat. Konishiki, "Walking into Sunshine~".

	Walking into Sunshine~ (on YouTube, with English subtitle)

	I have listened to this song, but had never tried to find out
	the meaning of its lyrics before. It turned out to be a simple song
	about friendship, smile, and a promise made under sunshine.
	Cliche, but I think it kinda go along well with this piece,
	even that these concepts weren't what I originally had in mind
	when I started drawing it.

	Both characters were last seen together in
	[2022-06-19] Departure From the Gallery
	while the character in the back was last seen in
	[2022-06-25] Shaky Cameraboy
	I should really start putting a real effort into drawing the latter
	in consistent fashion.

	Copyright (C) 2023 xwindows
	This is a free illustration, you can modify and/or
	redistribute it under:

	GNU General Public License
	or...
	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Unported
	or...
	Free Art License 1.3

	Note: The drawing is made for 16:9 aspect ratio, but extra care
	was taken to make it look reasonable under 4:3.
	To get a 4:3 version, just crop for the middle part
	of this drawing.

	23 April 2023 edit:

	- Added the missing copyright notice.

	23 September 2023 edit:

	- Correcting the previous edit's date.

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	Downloads:

	Walking into the Sunshine (PNG)
	^ 1920x1080 pixels; 424 KiB
	Walking into the Sunshine (SVG Original)
	^ Scalable, nominally 1280x720 pixels; 300 KiB

	More from Eventful Scenes:

	[2025-01-07] Deer Santa
	[2022-06-25] Shaky Cameraboy
	[2022-06-19] Departure From the Gallery
	Eventful Scenes

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