Hii, i absolutely love your art and your totourials are some of the best ive met. Soo i wanted to ask you if you have any tips for drawing in the arcana charm style (wonderland, spring wedding) if you dont have time then it's completely fine also :) Hope you have a nice day! :D
This will be more tips and observations than tutorial because I haven’t tried this style nearly enough to give proper advice, but here are the things I noticed when trying to draw it.
As a note, though, there are slight differences between the Spring Wedding and Wonderland styles which I’ll try to highlight.
The first, and most distinct, aspect of the style to consider is the lineart. This style’s draw is attention in drawn detail rather than rendering.
The lineart is thin but with varying weight. It gets thinner for fabric details, getting thickers at corners, curves, and around the outline of the character. A lot of attention is given the hair, flowers, and clothing folds. The lineart is coloured, but unlike the Arcana style, it doesn’t change depending on the base colour.
For the Spring Wedding charms, the outline is an ink blue, while the inner lineart is a mid brown. There’s no shading, instead being flat coloured. Details and patterns on the clothing tends to be painted, rather than lined. Metals, hair, or anything else reflective don’t shine.
In contrast to the character, the back panel has a gradient, getting lighter towards the bottom. It has a single lineart colour, often being a desaturated pink/brown. This also lightens with the gradient. The backdrop consists of flowers and a decorative panel that frames their head.
The poses are simple but elegant sitting poses, as if the character is sitting on a sofa, posing for a portrait.
For the Wonderland charms, the brown lineart is used for most colours, though a blue is used for black/dark blue. Unlike the Spring Wedding charms, the outline is instead black.
The character is framed by or sits on a single, large item and is then surrounded by two smaller items. The poses are fittingly more dynamic than before, but still consist of sitting/lounging poses, though with more interaction with their environments.
One thing I can’t quite figure out is whether the eyes have whites to them. Either way, the significant blush on the face doesn’t extend into them. They’re drawn smaller/more realistically proportioned to the Arcana style. The face is similarly drawn with one lineart colour. The irises are simple blocks of one colour with a small white shine in the corner.
The lips are well defined. The top lip is darker and the lower lip can have a shine to it. The nose is simple, consisting of a thin line for the bridge and a small dot for the nostril.
Proportionally, the characters have similar proportions to the Arcana. They’re slender but otherwise are realistic enough.
I think that’s all the notes I have for now. I hope this can be helpful :D
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