I have zero talent when it comes to drawing so while I was in quarantine I decided to practice because I have nothing else to do, it's been 4 months when I decided to practice drawing so it hasn't been that long. I love recreating some Fanarts, specially Haikyuu Fanarts so when I saw this Tendou fanart on Pinterest I said to myself that I have to recreate this one.
The first time I practice my drawing skills is on ibisPaint so it's obviously digital then 2 months later I decided to draw on paper because I want to challenge myself if I can do it because obviously paper drawing is much more difficult than digital drawing. Today, I decided to create an article about how I draw my favorite anime character because I have nothing else to write and I'm really bored so if you are interested, just keep reading.
The things that I used are a Sketch notebook, 0.5 mechanical fiber castle pen, regular pencil, and two blending stump with different sizes, and of course eraser.
Now the first step that I did is input the photo on ibisPaint to create a guideline because that way it is easier for me. It looks like this.
As you can see I lowered the opacity of the photo so the guideline will stand out. I just draw a simple circle and draw some lines, which is really important because it is easier to draw the eyes, nose, and lips if I have a guideline on where to put it. The next thing I did is draw the same guideline on my sketch notebook and it looks something like this.
It doesn't have to be perfect especially the circle. I will eventually erase that later on because it is just a guideline. The next thing I did is draw the outer part and it looks like this.
Again, it doesn't have to be perfect because later I will adjust some parts. The next step is for the eyes, nose, and lips as I wrote earlier I draw some lines so it can be easier to justify where to put the eyes, nose, and lips. It looks like this.
This part is stressful (even though it looks easy) because I have to look at the reference on my laptop, to my drawing, adjust some parts, look at the reference so on so forth but despite that, I'm still pretty satisfied with the outcome. The next step that I did is draw the hair and honestly, this is the most easier part except for the guideline because you can just draw some flowy line.
I'm pretty proud of myself when I finish the hair because finally, it's going somewhere lol. Now the next step is the body.
I know he looks like a stump but trusts the process, I just draw that lines for the guideline because guidelines make it easier for everything. Next is the body details, this is when I adjust the body and add some details to it and it looks like this.
Now that the drawing is done, it is time for the shadings which I hated the most. This is the most frustrating part for me because you need to control the force because I don't want it to be too dark or too light. It literally took me 1 hour on shading and I'm still not that good so yeah...it looks like this.
I know it looks nothing like the reference because I just realize that the face is too boxie if that's a word. The face also needs some adjustments, it needs to be adjusted upward. But I'm actually okay with the result because it doesn't look that bad...right?. Maybe I'll draw it again or maybe not(if I'm lazy) but yeah...thank you for reading and I hope somehow you enjoyed it and have a nice day/night! Byee!
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