this was an endeavor and a half

manga studio crashed right about the 2-3 hour mark directly after I finished the lineart so i had to take a low-res screenshot from the screen recording and de-saturate it in photoshop to get rid of the sketch lines and then re-do the lines entirely

Alrighty -- so this is Ariel, a character from my original story that I'm writing off of Wattpad. It's the same one that David and Bennett are from. He's shadow creature that can shift its shape into different people so long as the person they're miming isn't seen by someone else at the same time. If he manages to trap the subject within his mirror realm, he can feed off of their memories and become even more convincing (and the subject eventually dies once the memories are depleted, since in the story memories are the only thing keeping a ghost sane and conscious). On the left is his regular form, and on the right is his powered-up form after he feeds on a lot of memories (can you sense a theme here?). He is the second (or third depending on your view of the morally grey character they meet first) major antagonist that David and Bennett encounter, and is by far one of the more powerful. I sort of based him on the common features in people's fan designs for a human Bill Cipher, what with the suit, coattails, odd hairstyle, simplistic color scheme, and gloves (a symbol of deception and/or repression of truth) with the exceptions of  his drastically different personality and his many eyes instead of one.

Oh! Before I forget, I tried out two different lineart styles for the both forms. The one on the right is a flat line and is quick to draw, whereas the one on the left utilizes pen pressure and is more time-consuming. In you guys' opinion, which one looks better? Thank you!

Hope you like it! (also feel free to ask questions about stuff and talk about your original stories/characters too because i love talking about that sort of thing)