Hi there. It’s Ravee.
Hey everyone~ Emoji Challenge is backkk. Yeahhhh
You can notice from my shirt color that today’s theme is gonna be purple.
I think everyone who follows this series knows the rules well.
But in case there is someone who happens to watch this series for the first time, I’m gonna go through the rules once more.
Emoji Challenge starts from me asking you guys to send 3 emojis as the art theme.
And today’s theme is purple, so emojis will be in purple.
Ok, these are 4 sets of emojis I’m gonna draw today.
And there will be something special about today’s pictures too.
I won’t tell you right away, but I’ll let you guys see for yourself.
Ok, if you all are ready, let’s start!
Ok, starting from the first theme.
Three emojis are an umbrella with raindrops falling from above.
The second one is a magical... astrological crystal ball, something like that; why the name is so long.
The third one is Libra, which represents something like scales right.
So, I drew a person holding the scales.
And two sides of the scales will have the curve bases like an umbrella.
Below the scales, there will be some kind of glitters falling from them like the rain, sort of.
For the third emoji, the orb, I felt that if I directly draw the orb, it’ll be too obvious
because I have already done that to the scales.
Hence, I used the curve of the orb for her hat.
And these are how I applied each element of the emojis to the picture.
Furthermore, today’s Emoji Challenge is more special than others.
You may have already noticed from the speed paint that plays on the screen right now that I was being kinda more attentive to the drawing more than in past times.
Which is the thing I told you at the beginning of the video that today’s challenge will be extra special.
Since I was very attentive during the process!
Well, in the past Emoji Challenge, you can see that I drew on my Ipad in a style that can be done quickly.
Which is my intention because I felt that there are lots of pictures for the video.
That’s why I decided to go with an easier art style so that the video can be finished faster; you get the point right?
However, I know, and you all know that I eventually processed the video quite slow anyway.
So, I changed my mindset about drawing these.
I intend to use as much time as I want for creating each picture for the Emoji Challenge series.
The good thing is I also get great pictures for my portfolio and ig as well. Haha!
Anyway, and that's the reason why I took it more seriously this time for pictures in this series.
Let’s talk a bit more about this picture since I didn’t go into so much detail about it.
What I wanna say is, the inspiration for the clothes is from Scandinavia.
Actually, I’m not sure why I chose clothes from Northern Europe too.
Back then, I just randomly searched for various kinds of clothes on Pinterest, something like that.
And I didn’t have any plans about her clothes style yet.
But then, I found a picture of Scandinavian dressing, and it’s exquisite.
I was intrigued to draw her in those clothes, so now she wears Scandinavian attire.
Well, I’m not sure its specific origin too, but that’s my inspiration for this picture.
For the second theme, the set of emojis I got are…
Hello Quita! Hello~ Quita joined the party!
For the second theme, three emojis I got are an angry devil face,
an eggplant, and the last one is an umbrella, but neatly closed.
Oh Quita…
For this picture, an emoji that is the main inspiration is the devil face.
The concept for this picture is...
an alien which has horns like a devil and is a spy or a mafia, or something that’s cool.
Also, she is a queen b*tch acting fierce and wicked, something along those lines.
I can’t speak with that feeling, but it’s something like that.
Fierce, aggressive, evil, b*tchy, stunning, sort of that, like a lady boss.
And her pose is like, you know, holding the umbrella, acting like a boss, or that kind of cool thing.
For the eggplant emoji, it’s quite hard to put in the picture.
Hence, I used its shape as her hairstyle. What’s wrong with my hands?
You might have noticed that I used the 3D model from Clip Studio in this picture.
Any of you who use Clip Studio may have already known that
there are 3D models whose poses can be adjusted and modified as a drawing reference.
And I also adjusted the pose and utilized that a bit.
At that time, I was a bit confused about how to draw the hands since they reach out to the camera, something like that.
About her hair, at first, I drew the front bangs.
But I changed because I felt that the bangs were too childish for her.
So, I changed to side-swept hair that is neatly placed behind her ears.
Lastly, for the background, I used umbrellas as… I don’t know what to call it.
Have you ever seen something like… cool characters who have weapons floated behind them?
Yeah, it’s that kind of thing. But for her case,
she has umbrellas behind her; ready to attack enemies, something like that. And that’s the idea.
For this picture, there are two finished versions:
colorful ver like what is shown now and a version that is a bit desaturated because I feel that it looks cooler.
But I also like the colorful version, so I just go with both of them.
Not again Quita.
Chiquita: Meoww
Me: Meowww
Moving on to the third theme.
The emojis for this theme are the nail polish emoji, an orb again, and the third one... I’m not sure what it is too.
Its shape looks like a star.
Let’s see how I apply this icon to the picture.
Since I got the nail polish emoji, I tried to find inspiration from people who painted the nails in a crazy style;
super duper long nails, something like that. That’s one of the inspirations for this picture.
And as you can see in the picture, I drew her head bald.
It’s because I got a crystal ball emoji, so I just made her bald. (laugh)
For this picture, while I was looking for drawing inspirations, I found this.
This is the inspiration for this picture. I really want this color tone.
As you can see, there are plenty of colors in this picture: blue, green, orange, pink, etc.
So, I want our picture to be colorful like this photo.
Originally, I wanted her to have a brown skin tone resembling the reference picture.
But at last, I changed. And I kept changing until I’m satisfied with the blue skin color.
Yah, confused, right? I’m confused too.
I feel that the color palette looks kinda funky with blue and pink as the main colors and others blended in.
I have to tell you that it didn’t take much time to draw this picture.
But while painting, I adjusted the color a thousand times because I kept being discontent with it.
Eventually, I also did two versions of this picture:
funky color version and another version that has the black pink tone.
Yup. Oh right, for the last icon which looks like a star,
I somehow inserted it on her clothes.
Also, the star icon is kinda close to a spider web.
Can you see the similarities? No?
They do look similar! Anyway, turns out, it happened to be the theme for this picture.
Which actually, it’s kinda like cheating because it’s like I got a spider emoji, but I’m not.
Anyway, everything has its own background, yeah?
Here comes the fourth and the last theme.
The emojis we got are DNA, Yin Yang, and Capricornus (In Thai, we call it ‘dragon zodiac’).
I did some research and found that it’s actually not a dragon because it has a goat head and a fish tail, right?
This picture, honestly, is the first picture I drew (laugh).
However, since I drew a male which you know that I rarely do,
I keep the best for the last, something like that again (laugh).
Since this is the first picture I drew, at that time,
I still hesitated about the art style between paintover or anime-like lineart, sort of that.
So, at the beginning, there were some periods I tried to experiment with inking, something like that.
At last, I chose the middle way: half inking, half paintover, something like that.
For this character, I drew him with goat horns.
Of course, because it’s from the Capricorn emoji.
His hair color is in two tones, like Cruella, which was inspired by Yin Yang.
Apart from the hair color, the color tone of this picture is too black and white, right?
And this color tone was inspired by Yin Yang also.
Wait, why do I have heart-shaped hands? (laugh) Whattt
Next, about the DNA icon, I put it as tiny parts in the picture which may be difficult to see.
Well, I applied it to the chain attached with his glasses,
making it in a spiral shape like DNA, something like that.
The concept also includes the pattern on this part of the clothes as well.
The crossover pattern resembles DNA a bit, sort of.
About the clothes he wears, I got inspiration from traditional Chinese clothing or something like that.
So, his clothes kinda have a Chinese vibe like that.
For the background and patterns on his clothes, there is nothing in particular.
I just searched for a Chinese wall pattern or something like that.
I searched for patterns that give a Chinese vibe or something along those lines to put in the picture.
And I found this kind of cloud which goes well with my picture.
Therefore, I used it for both the background and clothes pattern.
Ok. These are four pictures I drew today. Yeahhh.
Oh my gosh. Each picture turned out to be so wonderful.
Although I’m kinda biased towards the last picture, I actually like all of them.
How can I not like them? I put my efforts into them quite A LOT, in fact.
Disclaimer, I didn’t render each picture to be packed with details that much.
I didn’t intricately go into too much detail. But, well, I did it to some level to make it beautiful and to proudly present to you guys.
Just like I have said, if you specifically like any pictures, please tell me by commenting down below.
I’m inviting you to do so because I also wanna know your opinions about my pictures;
whether you will have any personal thoughts about them or something like that.
Ok, that’s all for the purple Emoji Challenge.
Next time, I’m still unsure between orange and red.
Anyway, I’ll create a post in the Youtube community, so you can help me decide which color I should go for.
Ok, I hope you like this video.
If you do, please don’t forget to hit like and share~ See ya in the next video.
That’s it for today. Bye~