>>38053826Artfag here who’s looked as close at Sugi work as possible without having actually met the guy
It’s a really good mimic, the lineart is basically perfect but the shading is a bit off, the thin blending line on his shading is usually uniform and only ever overlays when it’s something metallic or like a hard shell, the shading in the OP image is a bit messy
Plus the darker shading method is his HGSS method, I don’t think he uses that anymore, and as a final note the highlights are off, they’re just flat white shapes, he tends to blend them out just a little, I could be wrong though, I mean we only have 3 Sugis from gen 8 at the minute so he could have changed his style a bit