Finnian Donovan
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Post by Finnian Donovan on Oct 31, 2014 2:12:44 GMT
I know I should be doing revision right now for Visual Neuroscience (exam on Monday) but I wanted to shared my drawing process and how I go about butchering the style of anime/manga based drawings. In this case, I am going to demonstrate my skills by showing a bit of the steps I took to delineate my original character Yamamura Akihiro. I am still debating whether I should go with my idea of a self-insert story as I am afraid of the possible outcome of such a fanfiction... If any of you have suggestions, feel free to tell me as I may incorporate them into the story. Anyway... one of the first things I do is to pretty much try to make my initial sketch for my line-art as clear as possible. With the example of Hiro-kun here, I pretty much had sketched his face and body earlier and I didn't feel too happy with his hair so I decided to change it one final time. From this... To this... To this...
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Finnian Donovan
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Post by Finnian Donovan on Oct 31, 2014 2:19:26 GMT
And on to the last portion of the final line-art which is this... From here on, I do the usual steps of filling in a base color for everything... Then comes shading. For me, the easiest thing to shade in is the skin. I have yet to shade the hair because exams are coming up and there are still 15 lecture to go through in 3 days... Anyway, I'll leave it here for now if it helps anyone... Cheers!!
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Post by Nikudou Natsumi on Oct 31, 2014 2:21:36 GMT
That's cool! I was wondering whether the profile pic you had was an original drawing or not XD
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Post by Mikauzoran on Oct 31, 2014 2:31:30 GMT
I definitely like the new hairstyle better. Awesome job! It looks amazing.
As for your fic, what's the genre and the general plot? Are you writing action? Mystery? Romance? I think the kind of story you're writing makes a big difference when it comes to writing in OCs.
Best of luck in your future endeavors! Keep up the excellent work!
-Kara (aka: Mikau)
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Finnian Donovan
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Post by Finnian Donovan on Oct 31, 2014 4:36:13 GMT
To Detectivewriters, I had a vague idea that perhaps my profile pic confused people. I did decide to change it on a whim and there was no indication of who the bloke is. To Kara, thanks for your compliments. It's nice to see I'm improving, I guess. I have to agree with you, the hair is infinitely better than before! As a side note, Hiro-kun's hair pretty much sums up my hair if I were to be an anime character which is why he originally was sort of going to be my avatar in the DC/MK world (except for the fact that my hair is way wavier and definitely darker than his. My eyes are also brown rather than green). I've only started formulating a plot for the story but pretty much, I end up kind of being here in our plane of existence then all of a sudden, I find myself as another person whose identity was fully unknown to me up to the point where I'm being arrested from a petty crime that Hiro-kun has committed (I imagine him to be a run-of-the-mill and mischievous pickpocket who only does this in order to survive sort of thing). I have nothing conclusive as of this moment and I may change the overall plot altogether. Bottomline though, Hiro-kun isn't your typical good guy but isn't necessarily a bad guy. (Much like our all time favourite phantom thief, ne?)
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Post by Mikauzoran on Oct 31, 2014 13:06:14 GMT
That could be interesting. I don't believe I've seen anything like that before. Best of luck in your writing!
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Post by assasin8 on Oct 31, 2014 17:35:07 GMT
Flipping TEACH ME YOUR WAYS. Shading skin never really made sense to me... I just get lucky every now and then with the colors and placement.... Your avatar looks really cool though! Do you have a full character profile on him yet?
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Post by Nikudou Natsumi on Oct 31, 2014 21:09:22 GMT
I'd like to see your story Tell me when you have it posted! P.S. Oh great, now whenever I hear "Hiro-kun" I think of Big Hero Six . . .
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Finnian Donovan
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Post by Finnian Donovan on Nov 16, 2014 12:59:08 GMT
So er... I've finally had managed to find the time to work on Hiro-kun after a grueling examination period. Though I'm still not done yet, I do have a month's respite before things pick up again. Now please don't laugh at my attempt at shading hair. I'm being a bit experimental and I am not sure if it's paying off... Minor update: The spots on the hair had to go... I didn't like them one bit so decided against keeping them. Also, re-did the shading of the eyelids (specifically, the shaded area under the brow ridges).
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