Month: August 2012

How to Draw Challenge – Flandre Scarlet

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Request by: Marcus Mosley
A definite improvement to the first Flandre drawing I made on my old channel. I wanted to combine many different elements using a cosplayer, figure and many reference pictures. I really loved the eyes done on the cover of “Scarlet Eyes”, it screamed of Banpai Akira (I wonder who the artist was thought).

In my mind I wanted to give her a face of delight but still give a sense of creepiness or strangeness about it. I was imagining that in the background there was destruction, which is why I decided to go with such expressions. Of course the drawing could go either way. By darkening the eyes the theme would become darker and by putting some light she could just be happy about anything really (something considered “normal” maybe). I had an urge to leave her without shading but I felt it would eventually feel incomplete.

link reference (one of them anyway): http://rocketdock.com/images/screenshots/Konachan.com—38656-flandre_scarlet-remilia_scarlet-touhou.jpg

link cosplayer: http://cosplay.paheal.net/_images/5126521a35ee96b06bce381e719a4c9b/27220%2520-%2520Flandre_Scarlet%2520Touhou.png

Hope you enjoy it,

– XERO

How to Draw Challenge – Belldandy

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Request by: xSTiLLo
This brings back memories, this was one of the first anime’s I have seen (well one of the first after I knew what anime was, anyway). I do not really remember much about it other than it was about a guy who likes motorcycles and who one day stumbles upon Belldandy a goddess who somehow was stranded on earth. From there the story progresses with the introduction of Belldandy’s “sisters”? Sorry it has been a long time since I last saw it (I was a kid really…), I’m amazed I could remember this much.

Anyway I did some research and have come to realize that my memory was off, as it turn out he calls her through a telephone service and makes her stay with him forever, thus giving the cause to why Belldandy is with Keiichi in the first place (yes it is all coming back to me now… or is it?)

For this drawing I used an action figure for the pose and took it from there. I decided to put a bit more effort into this one since I noticed I was lacking on the others. And overall I am glad I did. The more I see the final piece the more I like it.

Hope you enjoy it,

– XERO

How to Draw Challenge – Habaek

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Request by: inrisusingenuity
And here we have a character from Bride of the Water God, a Manwha. I have not read it before but apperantly the plot is that a young girl is married off to to a water god since they were not getting rain in their village. From there the story seems to develop. (Habaek is the water god by the way).

I had no idea how to do this request since it turns out that he has a child and adult form. In the end I decided to go for the adult form since I thought it looked cooler. And it also helped that I found a nice reference picture thanks to a cosplayer I found online.

link: http://worldcosplay.net/member/51392/

Hope you enjoy it,

– XERO

How to Draw Challenge – Lucy

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Request by: monstermash012
This is the request for the ever so popular Lucy from Elfen Lied. This series has always been recommended to me but I seriously cannot bring myself to do so because it is so gory and from the series descriptions I have read, well they scare me off. Of course I understand that there is much more than just gore and death. For instance (from what I understood after reading a lot of reviews and story descriptions) it seems to touch upon what is really being human, what is truly good and bad, bonds made by beings and a lot of more profound themes. I am not saying it is not an amazing series, I am just not interested.

The drawing over all was done using a cosplayer and some references of Lucy I found in the internet. Although the drawing itself is not bad, I feel I should have put more details to make it even better. I’ll definitely go ahead and fix it soon.

link to the cosplayer: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzo4cyjE971r307vlo2_500.jpg

Hope you enjoy it,

– XERO

How to Draw Challenge – Yoite and Miharu

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Request by: hazman354
I do not know much about this series other than it’s about ninjas… (series is called Nabari no Ou, by the way)

The drawing did not really give me much problems, but as mentioned in the comments section I did mess up Yoite’s hand, it really looks weird. I am sure with a bit of shading and restructuring I will be able to fix it without a problem. Truthfully since Yoite was last and time was running short I failed to give him the time needed to produce a good overall drawing. I’ll have to keep it in mind so as not to do that again (although it most likely will).

Hope you enjoy it,

– XERO