Sol Radguy

_{"Johnny works as a captain too!" That’s what this picture could be called, don’t you agree? The silhouette of the coat was done by trial and error, but it doesn’t look like an emergency, so it may have been too active a shot for something inside of the ship.}

Guilty Gear X Art Works trading card illustration. Art and caption from Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007 by Daisuke Ishiwatari.

_{I was actually very interested in CD jacket art and wanted to go for a Western style, but I regret that I should have rendered them with paints. The four characters are modeled after the members of the band, but I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the lack of resemblance.}

Members of the Band A.S.H. as zombies on the Guilty Gear XX Sound Alive jacket art. Caption and scan from Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007 by Daisuke Ishiwatari.

_{Zato is the most beautiful character in my opinion. He’s simple, but he is the only one who I don’t feel the need to tweak any further. He is by no means a redeemable human being, but there is a very human drama found in themes of grief. In that sense, he is more beautiful as a dark hero than Sol. I depict him in such a way that you can feel his beauty and his destiny to be ruled by “something.”}

Illustration for Arcadia Extra’s Guilty Gear X Slash Encyclopedia. Art and caption from Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007 by Daisuke Ishiwatari.

_{This one is moody. I imagined a Y-cut shirt that would look good on him, so I did my best to give him that kind of appeal. But still, the colors are too pale… He has a pen, but he has a habit of twirling it when he is thinking. Despite that, he gets mad when people fidget too much and calls them “restless.”}

Illustration for Arcadia Extra’s Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival Burst Encyclopedia. Scan and caption from Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007 by Daisuke Ishiwatari