Hi everyone! These are the highlights from our livestream: Drawing Anime Characters as Pokemon!
In this episode, we created mashup designs. For anyone that doesn't know, a mashup is when you
take two designs and take traits from both designs, then combine them together into one new design.
Our viewers suggested what Pokemon and anime character combination they wanted to see
mixed together. As a result, we have Hatsune Miku as Jigglypuff, Alex Armstrong from Fullmetal
Alchemist as Geodude, Hinata Shōyō from Haikyuu!! as Charmander, Sebastian from Black Butler as Umbreon,
and Killua from Hunter x Hunter as Jolteon! Hatsune Miku as Jigglypuff was actually my idea to start,
and the rest of the characters were suggestions from our viewers in the live chat. So here are some
main tips to take away from this stream. Tip #1: How to start designing a mashup that works!
Since the theme was Anime Characters as Pokemon, having prior knowledge about some anime
characters and some Pokemon is super helpful to create mashups that actually make sense.
It really helps if you know if the characters you want to combine have anything in common.
You can ask yourself: "Do they have similar powers or skills? Colours? Personality traits?"
The first mashup I drew for example, I wanted to draw Jigglypuff and I've seen Jigglypuff sing
before and maybe you have as well. So with that information in mind, I knew I'd want to mash up
an anime character who sings - Hatsune Miku came to mind! So, Miku is actually a virtual singer
and not from an anime show, but she is an anime styled character. And that's how I got this mashup!
Tip #2: Add iconic traits. Since we're turning a character into a Pokemon, I wanted
to add iconic details, or details a fan of that character would notice right away.
Miku has her long twin tail hairstyle, and Alex Armstrong has his mustache and sparkles,
and Hinata has his jersey and volleyball, and for Killua, I changed his overall color scheme to
a pale blue and white versus the yellow color Jolteon originally has. Tip #3: How to
add special effects! I gave Alex Armstrong, Hinata and Killua some special effects with the sparkles,
fire and lightning! And I use the same digital steps for each. I'll use Killua as an example.
First, I drew out some jagged lines for lightning bolts in a dark blue and duplicated that layer.
Working on the original layer (not the duplicated one), I applied a blur by going to Filter>
Gaussian Blur, and I change the duplicated layer to a very light blue (that's the
one without a blur), and what I get is a quick glowing lightning effect that really pops.
If you want to watch this drawing in real time, check out our livestream replay in the description
below. I hope you enjoy the stream highlights! Fun fact, Umbreon is my favorite Eeveelution.
So I could just draw him sitting there, and he seems like he would have his head up. He could be
smiling at the viewer. I really wanted to have like that puffed puffed chest look.
The foot looks a little too long, and I can adjust that. So, I'm going to give Umbreon some clothes similar to
Sebastian's collar, and a tie and a vest. Umbreon's eyes...
I'm just going to fill this in with a grey and if it's too dark or too light, I can change it.
With that in mind, I'm going to colour in these little gloves.
Use a darker grey, and then put that on top. So I'm going to use a dark purple for the rings.
So I'm actually approaching this kind of like how I draw regular arms - arms on regular people I mean.
I just come up with the pose and then I block in simple shapes. Let's make his arms really big.
I got to make the circle a bit more rocky-looking because right now, it's simply a sphere.
Okay his face - let me just draw the mouth. This is so weird because Geodude doesn't have a nose.
Let's try to put his mustache in. I'm just going to try and draw his eyes. It looks like he's
saying "I cannot see". Then, I can make his brow ridge a bit stronger. There he is! I think
that's about it for the Geodude part. There we go, and then now I can I can colour him in.
His mustache and his hair, so I'm going to pick out a blonde colour. Lastly, I want to have his sparkles.
For the sparkles, it doesn't matter what colour they are. The one
the picture that I'm looking at is like a violet, so I'm just going to go with that.
So what I'm imagining is like, Charmander holding a volleyball. I'm just starting with
a simple head shape, body shape and then the legs. So here I'm just adding some cheeks
to that head circle or egg shape. And then, he could be holding, like his arms could be
here, and then he's holding a volleyball. And then, some claws. Charmander has kind of like
the inside of its belly is a different colour, so I can do that. And then, I could have the tail.
Now I'm wondering, "How am I going to make it look like Hinata?" Other than the volleyball.
So here, I want him to have like a big smile. I'll see how it looks with open eyes first.
[Comment from Viewer]: "Looks so cute." So he has spiky orange hair, oh my goodness.
Once I change the colour of my sketch darker, and then you get to see all of my messy lines.
So now, I'm just going to go back in here and then clean up.
And then I can add some colours underneath. I'd like his hair to stand out as a darker orange.
I can do the inside of his mouth. So to make it look a little less weird, I just want to color
in the entire part of the eye. Next, I will colour in his jacket. There we go! And then,
I can copy this, put it on top of that drawing layer and then Filter> Gaussian Blur.
So I hope these tips and tricks can help you the next time you design and draw a character mashup.
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