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These are some of the preliminary sketches for the title image for 'Interview with Nice Eclipse.' I went through a lot of poses for Solar until I settled on the age-old advice: Keep it simple, stupid. I wanted it to more emulate J-Gem's thumbnails, and Ruin's reflection wasn't really necessary. The knife alone was much more subtle, and blacking out one side of Solar's face alluded to his eye being injured.
The color scheme was another issue. I had to decide which version of Solar's color scheme I wanted: His canon colors at the time, his color scheme from Ayyyimmaninja's thumbnails for The Lunar and Earth Show, or my own take. And I realized... I really liked Solar's canon colors. Then I added his clothes from The Lunar and Earth Show thumbnails, to differentiate him from the OG Eclipse. (Even though, in the story, he leaves those behind before Ruin captures him. His goggles, however, I decided to leave out due to plot reasons. In 'The Ones I Left Behind', we learn that Solar left his goggles behind in his original dimension.