Spent some time tonight drawing Shiva and Sensei, the two main characters of Girl From the Other Side. I watched the OVA with a few friends for Halloween and really loved it. It’s gorgeous and melancholy and haunting and the art style of its animation is absolutely stunning, and I really liked seeing the way its characters grew together.. I’ve also heard good things about the manga. I haven’t read it yet but might wanna check it out at some point, it certainly seemed like the OVA was taking a lot of its style cues from it.
As far as these two, I really love their contrasting visual styles and the crisp sharpness of Sensei’s formal wear and the weirdness of his monstrous form, the way he exists almost entirely in shadow, alongside Shiva’s soft floofy rounded style and white hair and dress. It’s really fun drawing the two of them alongside each other. Also the “small girl in big loose flowy dress” is such a good character design (as is handsome, anxiously caring monster guy).