Commander of the Heavens

7-6-18 Edit: Moving to scraps because character is no longer active.

This picture was drawn in May of 2011 and colored in June of 2011.

Another character introduction, woot! This is my D. Gray-Man OC, Akane Otogisha! She’s not as developed as some of my other OCs and I haven’t really done much with her before, but I couldn’t help but make her. We’ll see how long she sticks around.

Akane is pretty good at using her Innocence and being an exorcist. I think that warrants at least some sort of title. Commander just seemed appropriate for the occasion. Now, I say she is the Commander of the Heavens because her Innocence is connected to the sky—Sky Evolution, Raindance Light, Sun’s Eternity, Heaven’s Fury. So yeah, Akane is my Commander of the Heavens.

I’ve always wanted a character with double colors in the eyes. Not like one eye one color and the second eye a different color. No, I wanted two colors in both eyes. I decided that since D.Gray-Man was a fairly normal place to play with colors (that’s why Akane’s hair is lavender, the pink tips are dyed though), so I went with it. I’m happy with the results. Her skin wasn’t originally that dark, but since she’s Japanese, I thought I’d make it darker, be somewhat accurate. I don’t like the legs or the hand very much, but hey, I tried. I’m proud of the hair and eyes, though.

I gave up on making the background realistic for this one. I went with the heavens theme and used a galaxy brush to make the background (I don’t remember who it was I got them from—I’ll look it up later when I’m not tired). I’m happy with it.

It’s not my favorite picture, but it’s not bad either. It only goes to show that SOMETIMES, the poses straight out of my head don’t look very good. But not all the time. So yeah.

Akane Otogisha, Sky Evolution, Sun’s Eternity, Raindance Light, Heaven’s Fury, Art ©
D. Gray-Man © Katsura Hoshino
Galaxy brushes © Someone. I WILL look this up.