https://chanomach.fanbox.cc/posts/1977216

From blog post:

去年、顔の絵文字を使ったクラス写真の絵を描いたんですよ。いただいた反応の中で「卒業写真だと思った」ってコメントをいただいて。なるほど卒業写真かー、登校できなかったら卒業写真ってどうやって撮んのかなーとか考えてたら、教室にモニタが並べられてて一人一人の顔写真が映ってる画ヅラが思い浮かんで。ちょっとやってみるかと。去年の卒業シーズンに描けてたらもっとタイムリーだったんでしょうが、なんかみんなが不安な時期にこんなんぶっ込むのもどうかとも思うし、去年よりも、来年よりもこのタイミングで描くのがよかった気もしています、が、正解はわかりません。風刺画っぽい仕上がりになっちゃうのかなーとか思いながら描いてたんだけど、すすめてみたらなんかデスゲームものの映画のポスターみたいになったので、ツイートに添えるテキストもそっちに寄せた。

最初のイメージではもっとモニタも綺麗に並んでたんですよ。1列目は床に直置き、2列目は椅子の上に…みたいな感じで。そこから、浮かしたほうがいいのでは？→じゃあ伸びてるコード使って吊ろう→これコードめっちゃ要るわ→モニタにバッテンにして巻きつけたらなんか不穏だな、ってどんどん発展していって、いつのまにかこんなに不吉な仕上がりに。正直途中で自分もだいぶ「うわあ…」ってなったんですが、もうこれは「うわあ…」ってさせる絵として仕上げきろう、って判断になりました。後悔してません。
画面に映ってるのはビデオ通話してるそれぞれの顔っていう案もあって、それだとみんながそれぞれの家で普通に暮らしているってのも伝えられて絵にも多少は血が通うんですが、いやクラス写真ってそうじゃないだろ、ってなって、シンプルに静止画を映すこととしました。こないだのクラス写真の絵も俺だいぶお気に入りなんですけど、これも凄い好きです。

https://chanomach.fanbox.cc/posts/1977216

From blog post:

Last year, I drew a picture of a class photo using emoticons. Among the responses I got, there was one comment that said "I thought it was a graduation photo." I thought, "Oh, graduation photo, huh? I wonder how they take those for people who couldn't attend." and the image of putting up monitors in the classroom showing everyone's individual portraits came to me. I thought, "let's give it a try." It might've been timelier to draw it in time for graduation season last year, but I was unsure about throwing something like this out there at a time when everyone's feeling anxious, so I think it was for the best that I drew it not last year or next year, but right now, but I'm not sure. I was wondering if it'd come out looking caricature-ish as I drew it, but as it went along it started looking kind of like the poster for some death game movie, so I went with that as the accompanying text for the tweet.

My initial image had the monitors laid out more cleanly. The first row would be on the floor, the second on chairs... something like that. But then I kept developing it like, "Maybe I should make them floating?" → "Then let's hang them up with some outstretched cables." → "This is gonna take a hell of a lot of cables." → "If the cables are wound around the monitor in an X that's kind of disturbing." until I ended up with the ominous look we see here. Honestly, even I caught myself going "Uwaah..." along the way, and decided to make this into a drawing that makes you go "Uwaah..." I don't regret it.
I also had the idea of making the images on the monitors be video conferences from everyone, but that would mean that everyone would be at their own house, living normally, and while I think there would be some weight to a drawing that conveys that too, I thought "No, that's not what a class photo is like", so I decided on simply having still images. The other class photo drawing from before I like quite a lot, but I really like this one too.