Jenna Schmidt - Square Enix

SORIKU DOUBLE-SIDED RISO PRINTS (2025)

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The product is double-sided, meaning it features two original designs and can be flipped depending on buyer preference.

All prints have a base two layers on each side. Variants "green" are printed with an additional layer to the front side, giving it a richer tone.

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5 / 28 / 2024
3300 x 2600 px

Sora warmup sketches, colorized
9/15/2024, digital file, 4000 x 6000 px

Expressions

As a bedtime ritual, I doodled some Sora poses in my style. His expressions are so emotive and I wanted to test the waters on capturing the balance these games walk between toony and graphically sophisticated.

Below are the individual sketches, removed from their arrangement in the composition on the left.

This particular stance of Sora wielding Two Become One is available on my Redbubble!

Sketch pages

Sora has crooked teeth
Roxas inherited Sora's imperfect teeth but has a shyer smile. He is less happy here.
Roxas has frosted tips while Ventus is pure blond.

Vanitas' hair has a bit of jagged swirl in it-- partly to match Ventus (coming from his heart and all) but also to match the Unversed's antennae.

Monstropolis

I love monsters and weird creatures, and drawing Sora is a blast, so it was a bit inevitable that I'd eventually practice his Monstropolis model! In the game, it's proportionally a bit uncanny, so I had to find a stylistic counterbalance for some of the weird textures and sizes to make it more palatable.

After noticing that Sora's Monstropolis form resembled a Chirithy, I began to think about what this could mean for Riku. If Riku's canonically a Dream Eater, after all, then it stands to reason he'd look like one in Monstropolis, being that they are essentially yokai themselves!

Monster Riku: Design Notes

He's the same (or adjacent) species as Dean Hardscrabble from Monsters University-- though not a centipede taur for Reasons
(SquareEnix probably prefers consistent proportions across world specific models to make rigging easier, and therefore would not design him Like That)
His wings and elytra are at his waist since from my observation, they like to put things at waist length in Riku's designs. When folded flat against the thigh it looks like pockets.
He would use the lower wings mainly for gliding, to generate extra lift (given the length of his tail)
I'm debating moving the position of the Spirit sigil to his back, between his wings: that is consistent with its placement in DDD, plus his wings would also contextualize it like a Nightmare