ちぇる 🛌 chelさんのイラストまとめ

"I decided to go with the characters all grown up for the cover illustration. I actually really love Tsukishima’s green uniform."

(frdt-sensei basically said sendai frogs uniform superior and i am accepting this as fact)

"Hinata Shoyo and Ken Watanabe, on their way to take on the 'Buy Me a Beer' Brothers."

(ken watanabe lmao)

"While drawing this I was thinking, 'I bet it’s hard for seagulls to stand on humans’ shoulders with their feet like that!' This drawing captures a single moment, but I’m pretty sure the seagull was flapping its wings all over the place."

"I wanted to draw a cool Hoshiumi."

"I tried to convey how white seagulls are, and also how strong their gazes are with this cover."

(im just thinking about how maybe frdt might have used a photo of a real seagull staring straight into the camera as a reference for this volume cover lol)

"This was for a WSJ cover. I think… I remember... kinda straying off course with the colours..."

(it looks much less saturated and a lot calmer in the artbook, i promise! also idk why but this comment is so funny to me...)

"The orange here is intense!! I struggled with the composition for quite a while, since I really wanted to convey how much power there was in this receive."

(it's THE receive. there is nothing more that needs to be said)

"This is from the light novel, where I’m allowed to have some fun with the cover illustrations."

(i just thought it was funny that the light novel covers are a way for frdt to let loose since the volume covers have to be as serious as the what's happening in the story)

"Can you believe I actually made a mistake writing a kanji in the front page illustration."

(im sure most people know already, but the correct version of the phrase on hinata's tshirt is 大器晩成. the last kanji is missing a ノstroke in the drawing LOL)

failed to figure out kageyama’s 飛 (tobi) even after a month but i wanted to redo it in their character colours so im just gonna. quietly put version 2 down here. i apologise for sakusa’s colours but let’s be real it’s itachiyama’s fault, not mine