Hey guys! Welcome back to the channel :) It's Rachael from the Winged Canvas and
today I come with a new series on this channel!
I'm basically going to be taking fruits and turning them into pretty girls.
And today I'm gonna start with the watermelon which is my personal favorite!
So stay tuned and I'll show you my process. I'm gonna get started by
drawing some basic shapes. I'm gonna start with the eyes and make
really big, doughy, kind of almost sad looking eyes then I'm
gonna map out where the mouth will be and
since she's gonna be nice and sweet :) I'm gonna put little smile-- I'm gonna draw some bangs
on this person.. I think I'm into the bang look.. and because these bangs are gonna
be covering the eyebrows, I won't be drawing in eyebrows.
I'm gonna map in where the ear will be.
If you look at a lot of chibis, they often don't have noses.
You can put a little dot like that but I think I'm gonna opt for no nose
because this character is sweet. I'll give her a nice
medium length to her hair. Not too long, not too short.
Now I have the basics down, I'm going to draw in
her body. I plan on making this character wear a dress.
I'm going to draw in a little dress -- nice puffed sleeves for that nice
innocent look. I'll put a little watermelon in her hand,
you know, that'll be real cute since she's based off a watermelon.
There'll be little seeds on this dress once I colour it in.
I'm gonna give her some hoop earrings. I think hoop earrings would really suit
this character. Maybe at the end, there's a little seed.
A little seed charm :)
Just adding some finer details around her.
Adding some stray hairs to add some more movement
and interest. Sometimes I like adding this little cowlick on characters.
I think it's so cute. Now I'm going to start inking this
in with my micron. I like to make certain lines thicker
than others just to emphasize parts of the drawing that I want to call
more attention to which includes the face. So if you look
at some of my other artwork, you may see that lines I draw are
slightly thicker. I'm going to add some shading with cross hatching.
I'm going to take some last minute looks and do some touch-ups make some lines
thicker than others, thinner than others, etc.
Awesome and now that I've drawn my line art, I'm going to take a picture of it
and transfer it onto my phone and then colour it in MediBang Paint.
If anyone is wondering, I do have a Samsung Note 8 so my phone comes with a stylus.
I'm currently using the app Medibang Paint which is free
and available on the play store. So right now I have my line art here and I'm
going to be colouring on the layer underneath my
line art just to get things started. I'm gonna give her
skin tone a bit more of a pinky colour since you know she is based
off of watermelon. And I'm not being too neat with this. I
know that with layers I'm going to be covering in
the parts that are outside of the lines. Now I'm going to select the area that I
just coloured in to make sure when I'm doing the shading and such that it
doesn't go over the lines that I drew previously.
It's got some blush, etc -- make it look a bit more cute. Now I'm going to start
doing some shading.
When you're shading in parts of the body,
face, etc, you want to understand where the light source is coming from.
Now I am currently pretending that the light
source is coming from the top right which is why I am putting
these shadows on the bottom left of body parts, etc., etc..
I'm going to be colouring in the eye. I'm just going to
fill in the white part of it. I thought I'm going to give her some
green eyes since, you know, she's a watermelon girl.
Add some shading in there -- put some depth in the eyes.
I'm gonna do her teeth. If you notice when I'm putting
white down, it's not actually white it's an off-white.
It's not perfectly pearly- bright-shining white because if you look
at people -- at humans, our eyeballs
and teeth are not perfectly the white. They usually have a yellow tint to them.
Now I'm going to colour in the watermelon. Give it a nice
dark pink because you know dark watermelon
is usually the most tasty watermelon and at the Winged Canvas,
we only like the tastiest watermelon.
I'm going to colour in her dress and I'm going to make her dress pink, the
same pink as the watermelon just to keep things looking the same. I
left the bomb of her dress empty because i want it to look like a
watermelon so I'm making the bottom
green :)
I'm going to make her earring gold because I see
her as kind of like a sun, shiny, summery gal.
I think I'm gonna make her shoes black like watermelon seeds.
I'm gonna do her hair and I think I'm gonna go
with black just like watermelon seeds.
And I almost forgot to add watermelon seeds to her dress
which i'm going to do now and although I liked the lines that I had drawn before
on paper, now that it's actually on my phone, I see
that it looks a little... tacky. So I'm gonna redo the line art
and add some colour to it instead.
So what I'm doing is I'm just re-drawing the lines I drew before
by tracing the line art that I had done before this.
The art looks really funny without the lines!
This drawing is taking a lot longer than expected but that's probably because I
didn't really plan out how I was going to do the line art. I
mean.. I did. I expected to just keep the
traditional ink lines that I originally had drawn
but as I put it into my phone, I thought it
would look better with digitally drawn lines so that's why
it's taking a lot longer because I'm redrawing
the lines I had drawn before. Now I'm just shading in the hair and
basically what I'm doing when I'm doing this is I'm pretending to know where
exactly the the light is hitting. I pretend that it's coming from the top
right like I said before and I'm shading accordingly so any parts
that are facing the bottom left, I'm colouring in
with a darker shade. Afterwards I will highlight it with a lighter shade
for the hair. Originally I wanted the hair to be black
but as I took a closer look, I wanted it to kind of be more brown
so I thought the black was just a bit too...
dull..? Not sure if that's the correct word but
I didn't think it looks very great with the gold earrings so I wanted it to have
a warmer hair color.
This is how it's looking so far and now I'm going to do on
another layer is start adding some highlights. This is the
exciting part :D The highlights is what really brings everything to life.
I'm gonna add some watermelon seeds to the watermelon that I drew here.
I'm gonna start with the background now. I think the background
should be a yellow -- a nice color that complements
the other colours here.
And I'm not sure how I feel about this yellow background so what I'm going to
redo it, I'm going to try a blue one. This is how
it is, you know, you just experiment.
See what you like, see what you don't. The background?
I always struggle with it haha! I'm going to clean
up some of this white framing stuff...
and here's the final watermelon girl :)
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