"Tsundere Trout" Sticker Process

as adapted from Patreon

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I really liked this sticker idea. It was the first one from my sketchbook that I drew because I thought it was so funny.

Inspiration for this came from the juvenile steelhead trout (or just rainbow trout) that we saw at the aquarium. I was drawing them, and I realized that their cheeks had pink splotches, which looked like the cute blush marks anime characters often have. I thought it was such a cute idea for a fish to have those pink blushy cheek marks, especially since they usually look so dead-eyed lol. Later, at the airport (where I doodled most of my sticker designs) I added the across the face blush marks and of course had to make it tsundere. And the sketch and idea was born.

Reference sketch:

Airport sketch:

You can watch the full process in the timelapse video. Below are the final color and images. I went with a different, more textured coloring style for this, as compared to the possum sticker. I also kept the colored line, but only kept it one color. I know most stickers usually use flat colors, a little less texture, or an overall "cleaner" more vector look, but I kinda like how this looks. What do you think?

Procreate Final Color with swatches:

Final image: