{"id":7190,"date":"2025-07-07T20:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:22:32","slug":"jinu-wip-july-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2025\/07\/jinu-wip-july-7-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinu WIP | July 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edit July8, 2025:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7224\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip2b-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip2b-web.png\" alt=\"Work-in-progress painting crop of Jinu from Kpop Demon Hunters, wider crop. Includes the six-eyed crow. \" width=\"950\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip2b-web.png 950w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip2b-web-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip2b-web-768x450.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wider crop | Work-in-progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wider crop showing the hat-wearing six-eyed bird, who I think is a crow, though I&#8217;m not 100% certain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Original post below:<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7190 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3b-web.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3b-web.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Work-in-progress painting crop of Jinu from Kpop Demon Hunters.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3b-web.png 760w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3b-web-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7191'>\n\t\t\t\tJinu WIP\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3a-web.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3a-web.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Early stage of the sketch for the previous painting of Jinu from Kpop Demon Hunters.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3a-web.png 760w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3a-web-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7192'>\n\t\t\t\tJinu sketch\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Painting WIP of &#8220;Jinu&#8221; I may or may not finish. Friends convinced me to watch <em>Kpop Demon Hunters<\/em> over the weekend, and I didn&#8217;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&#8217;t have been surprised by what became of him by the end of the movie, haha.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These are 100% zoom crops from a full-body painting, but if I finish it, I&#8217;ll probably keep it cropped (though a wider one than this), because this began as an unplanned sketch, and I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of the full composition .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s or Jinu&#8217;s (and, I have been recently contemplating changing them).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Image for site thumbnail for post to work --><br \/>\n<!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_7191\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"760\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3b-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7191\" src=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3b-web.png\" alt=\"Work-in-progress painting crop of Jinu from Kpop Demon Hunters.\" width=\"760\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3b-web.png 760w, https:\/\/lizliu.com\/sketchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025.07.07-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu-crop-wip3b-web-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a> Jinu WIP[\/caption]\n\n--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We watched SamDoesArt&#8217;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&#8217;ll link his vid below if you&#8217;d like to watch too!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/swDVdkyLzA8?si=sf2MvF5zHkGAw4_P\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I used to occasionally link YouTube videos I liked in my older sketchblog posts, maybe I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I think (unless I misheard) Sam says in the video that people who worked on the <em>Into the Spiderverse<\/em> set of movies also worked on this one. If so, I agree with his opinion that Sony Pictures&#8217; animators are really innovating the 3d animation space these days. I loved the art style for <em>Into the Spiderverse,<\/em> and even though <em>Kpop Demon Hunters<\/em> 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was telling a friend earlier how this movie reminds me a bit of <em>Cobra Kai<\/em> (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 &#8211; and yet either the writing (with <em>Cobra Kai)<\/em> or the artistry (with <em>Kpop Demon Hunters)<\/em> is executed so well that they shine in spite of their absurd premises.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the type of movie where I think even if it isn&#8217;t a genre you&#8217;re normally into (as it isn&#8217;t for me), there are many aspects to it you will likely enjoy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit July8, 2025:&nbsp; Wider crop showing the hat-wearing six-eyed bird, who I think is a crow, though I&#8217;m not 100% certain.&nbsp; Original post below: Painting WIP of &#8220;Jinu&#8221; I may or may not finish. Friends convinced me to watch Kpop Demon Hunters over the weekend, and I didn&#8217;t expect to enjoy it as much as<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2025\/07\/jinu-wip-july-7-2025\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[110,726,727,728],"class_list":["post-7190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-work-in-progress","tag-fanart","tag-jinu","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-kpop-demon-hunters-jinu"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Landy","author_link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/author\/liz\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/digital-art\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Digital Art<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/category\/work-in-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Work-In-Progress<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Edit July8, 2025:&nbsp; Wider crop showing the hat-wearing six-eyed bird, who I think is a crow, though I&#8217;m not 100% certain.&nbsp; Original post below: Painting WIP of &#8220;Jinu&#8221; I may or may not finish. 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