hey guys today I'm gonna be taking some of the art that you guys have made and
asked me to redraw and I'm going to be... you know:
redrawing it
uhuh
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starting with this awesome drawing by xojoshox
I picked most of these at
random but I really wanted to draw a male body type so I might have snuck this one in there
when redrawing this illustration I
decided to change up the pose mostly because when I was looking at this
drawing there were certain things obviously that stuck out to me - one of
the things I noticed right off the bat was this character has some pretty
predominant facial features and I really wanted to explore that myself and doing
that meant zooming in on the character and kind of cutting off the leg so it's
a much more cropped illustration it didn't end up being full-body but I
think it was all for the best because I really had a lot of fun drawing this
character's face and then there's two other pretty predominant things that I
definitely wanted to carry over: the big dark black circle engulfing the
character and then of course I think that's an iced coffee so I want to make
sure I incorporated that as well
OH! and here I am trying to figure out what
a hand looks like when it's holding an iced coffee - here I'm actually just like
looking at my own hand and trying to recreate it but then later I actually
hold some thing cylindrical and I realized that I was drawing that hand
kind of wrong so it's always important to use references especially with hands
then I had pretty much the entire drawing done so I just did like a final
pass of going over like the entire character darking up the bits that I
really liked and making sure that there was enough detail there to add color
without making any huge mistakes and then I started going in with the line
art and the first thing I did for the line art was that big black
circle that I really wanted to do so I actually used an Ohuhu brush marker
and I use the chisel tip first and I outlined the whole circle to make sure
you know it was a circle then I actually switched to the brush tip on the other
side of the marker and use this to outline the character because it gives
me a little bit more flexibility to get into tiny nooks and crannies whereas
coloring in the outside of the circle I wanted it to be kind of exact so by
using the chisel nip it doesn't vary in width at any time so it works really
well for that
then I just went in and colored in the entire circle
then I finished up the rest of lineart using a regular fine liner this
one's in the color black so I was very careful about where I used it because I
wanted the lineart around the skin to be a lot softer so I left that till later
so I could use like a dark red or brown for that part of the lineart
oh and this
is just me showing off this hand because I was really proud of it [laughs]
see what happens when you use a reference?
and then I started coloring in the character
I ended up choosing colors that are a lot more saturated than the reference
image so I kind of like have to do some like backtracking later on in the
drawing and here you can kind of see me trying to darken up the hair without it
blending in with like that dark black circle so I'm kind of glad that I did
that black circle pretty early otherwise I think I would have just color it in
the hair completely dark and then when I went into add the black circle we would
have run into some problems
then I found a really good imitation for the blue so
I use that to color in the stripes I think a lot of my markers are getting
very very low in the ink Department so it takes a few layers for me to get an even tone
and then here for funsies I decided to add a white border around the
character to just make the hair pop a little bit more like it obviously could
be worse but I feel like this really helps make the hair look separate from the background
then I switched to this like dark maroon
Ohuhu fine liner and I use this to add all of the line art around the face this
is something I've been doing a lot lately sometimes I do it after adding
the color but here I was kind of nervous about losing some of those facial
features so I decided to do it before
these fine liners work pretty well and
hold up well next to copics and that's what the line art looked like after I'd
finished it and then it came down to trying to find the right skin tone
I tried blending a couple markers but none of them were quite right I ended
up using E11 and R83 so E11 I used to color in all of the
skin obviously and I used the R83 for anything that I want it to be a little bit redder
like around the eyes maybe the cheeks the nose and the ears and then any
elbows or fingertips that I felt needed to have a little bit more reddish hue to them
shading faces with like a little bit of blush it's definitely my favorite
thing to do with alcohol-based markers I think it just works really
well and lends well to the way I like to color faces
you can kind of see the
process of how I'm doing that I like it darker around the center of the face and
then it kind of gets lighter near the top and the bottom and I just had to
color in the arms as well and then I was pretty close to being done and I
realized I didn't finish the drink in their hand
so I finished up like the ice cubes and I also just darkened the drink overall
originally I had it so you could kind of see the hand through the drink but it
made it look just so watery and kind of gross if that's supposed to be coffee
so darkening it up kind of like thickened it up and made it look less
transparent and I think it looks a little bit more appetizing now
Oh I forgot I added bubbles so now it kind of looks like Pepsi or Coke or something
I'm new to this drawing..[pauses for emphasis:] liquids
so here is xojoshox's drawing and then
here is my recreation thanks so much Josh for letting me recreate your
character it was a lot of fun and it was really helping me practice my male
anatomy so thank you so much for asking me to redraw it
next up I hope I'm
pronouncing this right: this is a drawing by ruki-kruki-art anyway I fell
in love with the patterns and the colors of this drawing so I was really excited
when it popped up and that's what I'm going to be recreating
starting off again with a prismacolor col-erase colored pencil in the color 'rose' I started sketching out the character
I still don't want to like recreate the
drawing exactly I wanted like switch it up a little bit like kind of just draw
it the way I would if I had sat down to draw this without the reference image I
am keeping this one a lot more similar than maybe the last drawing we just did
but I'm also just trying to make it my own as well
so what I kept was the hand
in the pocket and obviously the entire character looks like the same character
hopefully [laughs nervously]
something I didn't realize when I first saw the drawing and
realized once I started trying to recreate it was that the original
drawing has like sort of a drop crotch in the overalls and I had a hard time
trying to recreate that I just I was like "well how do I make it look like the
pants are ending there but like honestly the body isn't ending there?"
so I had kind of some proportion issues where it just looked like the torso was
really long which obviously if you're wearing
clothes that are hanging that low they're going to make and elongate your
torso but like when someone's wearing it usually can tell like oh that's not
where their actual waist is so trying to recreate that in drawing form and really
try to say that this is a drop crotch (that's such a weird thing to say) but
like [laughs] it was it was definitely a fun challenge trying to figure it out and I
might not have gotten it exactly but I definitely made some improvement from my
first attempt -- something I changed was for the background I made the shapes
vary in sizes more so I took three of them and just made them huge and kind of
like filled in the background of the character and then used little ones
surrounding her just like the reference image and then even though I was pretty
close to being done something wasn't gelling right about the pose so I ended
up moving that left leg under her a little bit more because I looked at the
reference image and it kind of looks like the characters floating a little
bit so I wanted to use that to my advantage and by pulling this one leg
under a little bit I feel like it made it a little softer her like floatiness
whereas when the legs were further apart it had a bit more of a stiff like inorganic pose to it
the next step was line art so I took that same dark brown
maroon red color for the fine liner and I used that to outline all of the skin
and then I used a dark purple to do all the rest of the lineart so like the
clothes and the hair and the shoes and everything like that
then for coloring I
used this very pale pink to color in the overalls I thought this looked very very
similar to the reference image so I was really happy that I had this marker then
I used this slightly desaturated blue for all of the blue sections and added
in shapes I wasn't super exact with my shapes it's kind of just trying to throw
them in there and make sure that they like no two triangles we're next to each
other no two circles were next to each other - you know - varying the pattern that
I kind of forgot that I'm drawing shapes so some of them ended up
looking like blobs
and this is a little bit different from the reference image
the reference image looks like they kind of used like a red or a hot pink for the
other shape but I decided to just use like a darker version of the overall
kind of like just keeping the color scheme more intact I thought it looked
more cohesive but i don't know - it was a choice I made and that's what it looked like
I did end up going over all those pink shapes with something a little bit more
saturated just to make them pop a little bit more and I definitely think that
like pulled it more in the younger direction which I think this drawing is
supposed to be a younger character so that helped a lot
then I switched over
to my Ohuhu brush markers, potato brown, I like to use it whenever I can and it
looked pretty close to the reference image so I use this for the skin it's a
little bit more saturated I would say but you know it's pretty so I'll take it
I didn't do as much shading in the face as I did with the last drawing mostly
because it is just so small but I did add those purple lips that I'm looove
oh
and then for the hair instead of making it straight black I decided to kind of
incorporate some purple into it because the color scheme is a little bit pastel
for the most part and I thought incorporating purple kind of like the
Pink's of her outfit would look good I don't know if that's how color theory
works but I still like it and then instead of laying it with just a black
marker I used a neutral gray a very dark one and I filled in the top section of
her hair with that and then layered that over top of the purple sections as well
and it just made it look black (I'm using air quotations) but it's also still kind
of like fits into the color scheme which i think is really pretty and then since
that was so dark and saturated up at the top I decide incorporate some more of
that neutral grey down at the socks just to kind of like balance out the color
scheme oh as well as the watch then I used a pink marker to add some shading
kind of just underneath like the arms and especially that right foot because I
wanted it to look like it was going further into the distance and then I
started coloring in the large shapes in the background here it's pretty
obviously those markers running low [growls low and gurgly]
[sarcasm:] it's not frustrating at all
I love this color
it's such a it's like a perfect corally desaturated pink
instead of following
the exact colors that the original artist used I made sure I stayed within
my color scheme for the background shapes
and then I also took my white gel
pen and added a little bit of a border around it that's just like a personal
little touch
here is the wonderful original illustration by ruki.kruki.art
and here is my recreation it was kind of fun creating a crazy pattern and trying
to keep it into a cohesive color scheme something I definitely need to continue
practicing in the future
next up!! jelly_splish created this illustration and honestly
I'm just too excited I really want to start drawing it so yeah let's let's move on!
so I might have been a little too excited I did create a bunch of
thumbnails in my sketchbook to kind of come up with how I wanted to tackle this
illustration in particular and yes I did ignore them all when I finally got out
my piece of paper so naturally I didn't really care for
where this sketch was going after about 10 minutes
it was very stiff the characters weren't very believable and I just wanted to
give it another go so I did I flipped over the page and
started drawing on the other side this time purposely avoiding all the things I
didn't like about the last drawing and I thought it'd be fun to again tackle this
the way I would draw it if I had come up with the idea I'm not creative enough to
have come up with the idea but if I had how would I draw it?
and I thought: "obviously it'd be so fun if they were bestfriends!"
I mean obviously it says "me and my friends" but I decided to draw them more as like
me and my best friends so they're like hugging mm-hmm and they're all just
happy to be around each other and drawing the little faces on the little
like ghosty jellybean things oh it was so much fun drawing these like goofy
faces - I was very loose and soft but the pose making sure even though she's
like holding on to two of these ghosty jelly bean things (I really don't know
what they are) but they're awesome I made sure all the lines were very soft
and swooshy and this just makes her look softer and swooshier and not so stiff
like my original attempt
now these faces that have drawn on the
ghosts aren't really my style they're definitely jelly-splish's
style more than mine but I did want to kind of create them the way they had
drawn them but I also decided to create one look a little bit more the way I
would draw it so I made one a blub-ghost you can see him up at the top right
there: cross-eyed and a tongue sticking out. classic.
then for line art, things
have been going so well for the last two drawings I decided to use that exact
same dark, I don't even know what color it is, it's just like a dark red mm-hmm and I used
that to add all the line art to the face and around the skin and then I used a
black liner to add the liner to all of the black elements you know like her
outfit, I do have a pretty particular way of drawing like the tops of heads and
like the way hair parts but I decided to make it perfectly round for this
character to kind of imitate the way the little jelly beans in the background
looks so that they kind of have a little bit of similarities between them two
without obviously she's being much more complicated and detailed compared to
them but I thought it kind of just made them look more like family
I didn't add any line art to the jelly beans because I wasn't entirely sure how I was going
to do that yet so I moved on to coloring in the hair and I used I think neutral
gray 6 for this because I thought black would be a little too harsh I
wanted to kind of keep it a little bit lighter and then for her shirt since it
kind of overlaps some of her hair I also mixed it with purple kind of like we did
with the last characters hair and I think it definitely separates it from
the hair and makes it look a little bit more like kind of shiny fabric and then
I colored in the pants with just the same color I use for the hair since they
don't intersect in any way it worked just fine and I also used a little bit
of a texture the way I layered it to make it look kind of like the pants were
fading then I took the lightest skin tone I could find and colored her in
that way although it's not quite as light as the reference image it's the
closest I could do and it's it's alright
completely forgetting to color in her
one arm I moved on to adding liner to all of the jelly beans faces trying to
imitate jelly_splish's style - they're just so adorable
and then there's the blub -ghost, he's adorable too
after finally coloring in
that missing arm I I kind of tried to erase some of the pencil but I was still
very unsure of how I was about to color this I really didn't erase much and then
I started using some purples and trying to blend them out and trying to color in
this ghost and as soon as I started doing this I looked back at the
reference and I realized wait a minute pretty sure jelly_splish used watercolor for this
...
[slow claps]
..my bad
if I had realized that earlier I totally would have done
that as well but this paper it's a no-no for watercolor so I had to do my best
blending out the little ghosts with my Copic markers which it sometimes it
worked really well and other times it just some reason didn't want to blend
which I've never really had problems blending two colors together but this
dark dark purple just didn't want to blend I don't know what would have what
I was doing wrong but it was not happy with me - did that stop me? no I did try to
avoid it for the most part though like there really dark purple because the
other ones were blending just fine I did make the one ghosty in the background a
little bit darker kind of like make him look like he's further back and then I
also purposely made the little ghost that she's hugging a little bit lighter
to kind of make this one stand out from like the ghost surrounding it - i sat down
and started coloring these ghosts and I was like oh I don't have to be anywhere
for an hour I'll have enough time to probably color this in right?
uhuh....no.
I had to take a break and come back these things took a while but I think the effect was worth it
I also think you can definitely tell
that the ones I did later on so like the last couple ones I did definitely turned
out a lot better than like the first couple ones that I did and I was
definitely like learning from the experience then I actually took that
pretty dark purple that was having a hard time blending and I used this to
just add a little bit of shading around the sections where a lot of the ghosties
were intersecting to kind of like separate the shapes and also add their
little tails lower in the illustration because I realized there was a lot of
white space down there and if they're all these little ghosty
surrounding her they'd probably have the tails falling behind her so I just added
some simple shapes back there to kind of just hint at that idea then I used a
ruler to add the border around the character and then wrote out the words
at the bottom here's the original drawing by jelly_splish and here is my recreation
this one was a lot of fun and I don't think I got quite the right
color for the little ghosties and little guy in the backs a little dark and he
kind of stands out but he's adorable so that's fine.
definitely drawing something
that I've never drawn before which is always a blast and trial and
error but I do want to thank jelly_splish for sharing this art and allowing
me to recreate it
I want to thank everyone who added art to the tag on
Instagram #drawthiswiffwaffles I do pick these at random (aside from
know the one I mentioned earlier) so I want to thank you all for just including
such fun art to recreate in the tag if you'd like the chance of me recreating
one of your illustrations in the future you can use the hashtag: #drawthiswiffwaffles
on Instagram, Twitter, I don't know anywhere you can use a
hashtag and then you can also send me an email if you don't have any of those social
medias I also want to thank everyone for watching and I hope you all have a
delicious evening full of waffles!
BYE!
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