I really like your October challange drawings! They have a nice texture, so scratchy and the characters themselves are so shaped!! They are lil shapes! They are silly lil guys!! They are cuties patoties!!! 🧡🧡🧡
Anyways XD I wanted to ask what materials do you use and how do you use them. It looks like you use pencils and markers, but how exactly you make lineart here? It is thick and colorful and you even add a gradient to it 👀
Anyways, eating your art with a spoon uωu /pos
Aw thank you!! I'm always a fan of people feasting on my art :D
I think the most expensive supplies I used during my October drawings have been the occasional prismacolor pencils. However, if I had Crayola color pencils, I think that would have been one of the best to use here, as we need to keep a sharp point on the pencils. While Prismacolor is soft and great for blending, we want to keep the linestrokes we make visible, so a harder lead is ideal.
SO JUST FOR YOU (and others who are interested), I made a little tutorial on how to render like this! (MORE UNDER THE CUT)
So we have the sketch already down, and we want to line it. I have some cheap fine point markers here, an Artist's Loft one, and the red/purple one I don't even know who made that one ':o
In any case, what we have to keep in mind, is that these markers don't really have pressure sensitivity like a brush tip would. It does have a tiiiiny bit, but we're going to use them as if they don't.
Here we lined it with the lighter color first, in this case, orange! Just do it how you would if you were inking normally.
Now we start using the darker color marker, this time a dark red-violet. Here we're keeping in mind of where the light source is coming from, the top-right, in this case.
Since our marker is a set line-width, we're going to use dots instead! As the dots move away from the darker color, the farther apart we'll make them, giving the lines a little bit of depth to them, and that gradation effect. We'll keep repeating this step until the linework is--
Done!!
For the colors, I try to match them to the lineart, but just getting similar enough colors will do! We're using a Sanford col-erase orange, and a Prismacolor mulberry.
Like the lineart, we're going for the orange first! Make some compressed zigzags, and then make another perpendicular to the first. Repeat the pattern over and over. It does not have to be perfectly perpendicular, the most important part is the zigzag pattern. (Note: be gentle with how much pressure you're using! You can always go darker, it's more difficult to go back lighter.)
We'll do the same with the darker color.
Still keeping the light in mind, we're making sure that we leave some of it uncolored. Don't worry about missing spaces between our zigzag blocks, we can fill that in later!
With our darker color, once we've gone through lightly with the colored pencil, now we can start putting in darker areas for shading. It gives it a bit of pop!
The last step is going back in with the lighter color, letting it pop even more! I put more orange in the darker areas (under the body, patches in the leaf tail, etc).
This is the basics on how to do this rendering style! <3 As for color picking, just pick out whatever feels right in the moment. 💪
Rating: 10/10I love the swirls on the ears and how their tail is shaped like a lightning bolt! ALSO JUST A CUTE LIL CHUBBY RODENT! GOOD SHITI think my fav sprites are actually the 3d models in gen 6 and on. Super cute, and it reminds me of the old figurines ;w;
