Edit July8, 2025:
Wider crop showing the hat-wearing six-eyed bird, who I think is a crow, though I’m not 100% certain.
Original post below:
Painting WIP of “Jinu” I may or may not finish. Friends convinced me to watch Kpop Demon Hunters over the weekend, and I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did. Beautiful artistry and quite a wholesome flick. Jinu was my favorite character, and so I shouldn’t have been surprised by what became of him by the end of the movie, haha.
These are 100% zoom crops from a full-body painting, but if I finish it, I’ll probably keep it cropped (though a wider one than this), because this began as an unplanned sketch, and I’m not the biggest fan of the full composition .
Between Trahearne and Jinu, I seem to be partial to amber eyes, haha! Corveil as well, to some extent, though I imagine his eyes being tinted a bit more toward a darker orange than Trahearne’s or Jinu’s (and, I have been recently contemplating changing them).
We watched SamDoesArt’s review of the movie during lunch today, and it was likewise very wholesome seeing Sam so excited over the artistry that went into the movie. I’ll link his vid below if you’d like to watch too!
I used to occasionally link YouTube videos I liked in my older sketchblog posts, maybe I’ll start doing it again. Browsing those posts now felt like a time capsule, seeing what interested me enough to embed a video into this blog, back then. Might be fun to do again sometimes.
I think (unless I misheard) Sam says in the video that people who worked on the Into the Spiderverse set of movies also worked on this one. If so, I agree with his opinion that Sony Pictures’ animators are really innovating the 3d animation space these days. I loved the art style for Into the Spiderverse, and even though Kpop Demon Hunters is not always to my tastes (visually), I very much appreciate how unapologetic the creative direction was for this movie. I highly enjoyed it for having this strong vision for the type of movie the creative team wanted to make.
I was telling a friend earlier how this movie reminds me a bit of Cobra Kai (one of my favorite modern television shows), in that it has a premise so outlandish that, on paper, you surely think it would be destined to fail – and yet either the writing (with Cobra Kai) or the artistry (with Kpop Demon Hunters) is executed so well that they shine in spite of their absurd premises.
It’s the type of movie where I think even if it isn’t a genre you’re normally into (as it isn’t for me), there are many aspects to it you will likely enjoy.
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