This was a hard choice to make on who to draw for favorite villainess. So many choices!
I have a few complaints about kamen rider drive, but one thing I really enjoy was the characters and the actors that portrayed them. Looking back at really I didn’t like Medic at first when the show was airing, but now that I’ve had a few years to think about it I actually really enjoy her character. There’s so main monsters, villains, and anti-heros in toku and some of them are really forgettable. I honestly can relate to her a bit; Especially near the end of the series. Medic is one those characters I’ll always remember and look back on.
“An ancient silver dragon lives in a dungeon made of ice not too far from here. Some say they come out every so often to feed on misbehaving Dwarfs. Some say when a forgotten evil returns they will protect us. No one has seen from them from over 100 years. I wonder what happened to them...”
Kicking all my npc’s to the side. Make room for the fabulous and charming Quacktherine!!!! I love this bitch!!!!!!!!!!
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So I’ve decided to do this redraw because I’ve always been really unsatisfied with the first drawing. I love the background but I just hate how Misora looks. I know in 2017 I was still learning more about anatomy and posing. I know for fact I gave her a sleeping mask because I was struggling with her eyes. You better believe I hate drawing hands so heck yes I’m gonna hide it with a pillow. Also in 2017 I was still figuring out colored lineart and I haven’t touched the line/curve tool yet. I’m still learning and improving with the things above but I’ve already improved so much in the last two years.
Okay things that I feel like really improved my artwork that folks can use if they want to.
-Photo reference. I’m still struggling with this, but honestly anytime someone is like “wow this piece looks amazing!!!” and it a favorite among everyone it’s 10/10 most likely I used a reference for it.
-Color match if you’re going to be drawing a real person. I was going to use the colors I did from my old drawing but I decide to use a photo reference and take colors right from the photo. For example: using her actual skin color makes her feel more real. I know some people wanna change people skins tones for fun but sometimes sticking with what there is is the best.
-Add texture/patterns. I have four fabric brushes just for shading fabrics. That small texture differents really adds a pop. Also the plaid to her shirt really adds character to her. I also colored picked her clothes (if that wasn’t clear)
-Overlays and such can really add put it all together. On paint tool sai you can add different overlays. I like to put one or two colors overlay on the drawing to make it look put together. If the room/environment is dark I’ll add a shade overlay on top of it to make it darker (which is what I did here). But you have to be careful to not lighten or darken to much especially with human figures. People will think you’re trying to whitewash characters and call you out for it(even if you didn’t mean too). It’s something you have to keep in mind. I normally try to make the color over the skin more transparent to skill keep the og color intact.
Don’t ask me about backgrounds because that’s my biggest weakness and I’m still learning more!
Sidenote: When I was in highschool my art teacher was always like you need to make everything into triangles uwu that’s what real artist do. uwuwuwuw So ever since then I would try to add triangles thinking that would make me legit but looking at all my old art that has triangles they all fucking suck. Circles or squares are much better for what I’ve been doing. Triangles are too awkward for backgrounds.
