Simplifying Black OCs for Chibis
Hey Lovelies! This is the start of my written tutorial blog! I thought I'd do some stuff relevant to whatever I'm working on. I noticed sometimes people cant draw black characters in chibi form because they think that they need to keep every feature and not simplify it which has always been odd to me because like, you have to simplify it one way or another because it's a chibi. Anyways, here's how i've been doing it this past month on art fight!
What you want to keep
First you want to decide what you want to keep and what you want to remove. Whatever you keep you will simplify. No questions asked. In my case i dont like drawing noses on my chibi characters so I will nawt be keeping that! Instead i will be keeping lips and obviously most of everything else, im just gonna simplify it all
For this tutorial I have @sirteddy1987 ’s OC from Art fight. I'm starting with keeping a mental note of what I want to do.
I want to remove the nose
I want to keep both the top and bottom lips (sometimes i remove the top and add it in rendering instead of linework)
Starting with a sketch I map down the pose of course and then go for the face.
Making the OC still look the same without a nose
Sometimes when people draw other peoples OCs especially if the art style is very specific, you may look at it and think “they don't look the same at all” so how can we avoid this using a chibi style? Simple. You avoid it by making sure that the rest of the features correlate as closely as you can.
In this case their Oc can be easily identified through eye shape, lip shape, hair and other accessories like glasses, i apply all of these features to my sketch and finally refine them on my linework
Finally, although not everyone will have the ability, I can fully refine the look using coloring! Of course it's always helpful to have color when you want to make your Black OC chibi, but we also want to be able to replicate what a character looks like without having to resort to color.
Full YT video: https://youtu.be/FWtnBGZLhAg
Hopefully this helped in some way! I will be doing this more often!! :)) if there's any requests you can request them in the asks!