Main channel version:
Extended version:
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Youtube videos for the Lin Lin painting are now up
Lin Lin China dress Color
The painted version of the inked drawing I made a year ago.
Inked version:
I had two options that I could use to color, the line art or the inked version. In this case, I went for the inked version. Because of this, I decided to go for a more flat style. I decided to have a red background, so the colors were based off of that. While I was painting, I was reminded of a problem that this drawing had. Her right eye (which is on our left). It was misaligned and a bit too low, which I feel was exemplified more when I painted Lin Lin.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Sayumi Michishige Glancing Right Painted
Link to the line art post: https://darkcloudxero.com/2021/04/07/sayumi-michishige-glancing-right-line-art/
This is the colored version of my Sayu drawing done with Copics. It was painted with Corel Painter and then used the layer styles from PhotoShop. Each style changes different aspects of the painting when it interacts with the line art and the painting layer. I think each one has it’s appeal. Soft light gave it a pastel look which I really liked. Because the copic ink doesn’t completely cover the texture of the paper and it also doesn’t always completely cover an area (there are some patches that are lighter), these can give interesting effects when painted digitally and played with the layer options. This can be affected even further when playing with the layer transparency.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Sayumi Michishige Glancing Right Line Art
It’s always fun when I draw Sayu. Recently she cut her hair down so I really want to do another piece with her new hair style.
I wanted to work with my Copic for the line art step. I have done this before and really like the effect that I can get out of it when I paint it digitally. Sadly it seems like my copic tips are getting worn out, they have this gummy feel to them now. I guess I’ll have to replace them soon.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Lin Lin China dress
I’m amazed at just how much effort Yusuke Murata puts into both the characters created by ONE and the ones coming out (so far) in Murata’s version. One of the characters that really captured my eye is Ring Ring. It’s a shame she only came out for a couple of chapters. I was hoping that she would come out a bit more but the chances of that happening are slim. Maybe she will come back with Suiryu after training to become heroes. One can hope. Another shame is that we didn’t get to see her techniques, she got defeated too quickly… While drawing her I noticed that her design is simple and yet very iconic and cute. The addition of the bells and her hairstyle is a really good touch.
Looking at the One punch man wiki, it seems that Lin Lin was supposed to be Suiryus sister, so I guess there were more plans for her…
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Sayu Anime-Cartoon backpack
This was drawn originally on July 17 2019 and painted on July 19 2019. I wanted to try out TES‘s style again. I first drew it out with a copic W7, I exaggerated certain features and simplified the colors. I found that using copic as the line art is quite amazing for not just digital painting but also with mediums like watercolors. It’s just a shame they stopped making their color multiliners (should have bought some when I had the chance). I tried using them with my g pen but the dry off on the tip rather quickly. I guess I’ll have to use their pen refill system and create my own.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Trying out an ANIME X CARTOON style: Sayumi Michishige
While looking through Pixiv and some Mexican memes on “Fresh Anime Memes from a Mexican Otaco” I came across two artist that made art that was rather cartoony and “round” and yet also very anime like. I really like it so I wanted to give it a try.
This was done in 8/10/18:
I believe I did this with my dip pen and a pen named Bimoji Fedepen, the hard tip one (there are various types that also go to a brush type that is pretty cool).
This is the reference picture I used. This was from Sayu’s photo book “Mille-feuille”.
I then colored the line art with my Copic markers (process will be shown a bit below). I noticed that I was much too preoccupied with the way the other artist were drawing their eyes from the references (will post them below) I was looking at so she looks a bit angry.
Noticing that I used, I believe Photoshop to widen her eyes.
I widened them even more, and noticed that there is quite a bit of flexibility with this style so I really want to try out more things to see what I can come up with.
These were some of the references I used to try and understand the style.
Artist – Sh1tty:
And here is the process:
When I finished painting this piece and scanning it I had to go ahead and correct the colors that get washed out in the scanning process.
After that I began trying out different eye shapes.
That should be all for now.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Cima Garahau 80s Shiseido like advertisement
Earlier this year I showed my youngest brother Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory (I also made sure he saw Top Gun first). After seeing it again I was really taken by Cima Garahau, she really is in my opinion the best part and most interesting character of the series (a shame things ended how they did).
One other thing I have really been into are Japanese 80s magazine ads. Over this year I was going crazy accumulating all the references I could acquire. Now my collection is around 1tb of pictures (this is going to be a pain to categorize…). But it is all worth it.
These are the references I used:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/41604180954/in/dateposted-public/
Sayoko Yamaguchi (pictured below):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42326311871/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42279220572/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/41424855725/in/dateposted-public/
Sayoko Yamaguchi (pictured below):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42326322131/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/40520064140/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/27457481247/in/dateposted-public/
Up above are two pictures of Sayoko Yamaguchi who I came upon when finding reference pictures, I really feel that Cima looks a lot like her so of course I used her as part of the painting.
In any case, this piece was done both traditionally and digitally. First the painting of Cima. I wanted to emulate the painting style of the original anime and used my Knicker Poster Color paints to paint her but then used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi for the background. I wanted to loose details as I went further away from the focal point (which is Cima).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/28454114288/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/40520424960/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/28454114168/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/40520424860/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/28454114058/in/dateposted-public/
After finishing painting and scanning it I have to fix the colors since the scanning process dulls everything.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/41604614534/in/dateposted-public/
Once that is finished I then went ahead and started working on creating the ad. Since the main painting is done, now I had to paint the product. The hard part was coming up with what the ad would be promoting. After looking through Sayoko Yamaguchi’s reference pictures I noticed that she promoted Shiseido a good bit so after looking around a bit I decided to use their perfume line. And I painted it using Copics.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/40520848640/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/40520848500/in/dateposted-public/
Once they were painted I then used my Gel Writer gel pens to write in the text and paint in the artwork. Thinking back I should have modified it more to make it more Gundam like, or at the very least modify it further.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42327075091/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42327075241/in/dateposted-public/
After this I positioned them in place and modified them digitally by removing the modified Shiseido logo. I had to make a custom Cima Garahau text so that it would fit with the shiseido text style, and also modified their logo with a Zeon emblem that I also had to create by hand and modify digitally.
These are the original Shiseido text and emblem:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/41605114494/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42280250212/in/dateposted-public/
These are the ideas I had for the modifications I wanted to make:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/42327558171/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/40521281620/in/dateposted-public/
Then I used this ad as inspiration to finish it all off (after modifying it of course).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/41605442824/in/dateposted-public/
And this is the final artwork.
Hasta la proxima,
– NUBE
XERO DRAWING – Sailor Mars The Calm Flame Warrior
Time spent: hours 8 minutes 03
Materials used: Sakura 0.7 mechanical pencil, Faber Castell Perfection 7056 pencil eraser, eraser,
Sakura Pigma Micron set Black,
Uniball Sigmo White, Black
Sakura Moonlight gellyroll: Yellow, Red pink, Orange
Copic Markers: Y11, Y15, Y17, Y21, Y26, Y28, YR04, YR09, YR68, R08, R27, R29, C1, C3, C5, C7, W1, W3, W5, W7, G21, G28, BG18, V01, V15, V17, 0, E00, 100
So we are now on the third Sailor senshi, two more to go. From what I have seen so far, Rei Hino is definitely my favorite one. What is interesting is that they changed her personality a lot on the original anime from the one in the manga which I find a bit weird. But from what I have seen so far, this one seems to be more like the manga Rei which is more to my liking. Here powers are cooler too, specially since she already had spiritual powers to begin with.
Now for the drawing. I wanted to change things a bit more for this one. I wanted Rei to be a bit more like a Yamato Nadeshiko. So I made sure to not add much indication of eyelashes. And also change the shape of the eyes a bit. And truthfully, it worked out. She came out even better than I expected. One thing that I did sort of messed up are her eyes. I made them purple, but I was reading that they turned red when she was in her senshi form. But oh well. I really like her purple eyes. They blend really well with her long dark hair.
What do you guys think?
-XERO
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