Recently I was encouraged to watch for the first time the Arcane series, honestly I didn't have much faith because I don't like to watch animated series, I felt that it wasn't going to transmit me anything but all the scenes are so well illustrated that you can even imagine that it's real, the colors, the design of each character and scenery are pure ART, there were scenes with watercolor effects and I just thought “Shit... how hard it must have been to animate this” and they really did it amazing, everything was visually beautiful, I loved the story and of course I have my favorite characters, one of them is Violet (Vi) this woman is really my platonic love, I love her too much hahaha.
And well, today I wanted to portray Vi trying to imitate a little the drawing style of this series, something I noticed is that the strokes are not so blurred, they have texture and color changes that give a rather peculiar style, my idea this time was to make the left side of VI as she normally is, and the right side with VI with a broken heart, emo, goth, rebel hahaha, I don't know which of those two versions I liked more and that's why I decided to do half of the face in one style and the other in the other, I'm happy with the result because for me it's an achievement to try to do another style that I feel is a little different from mine. I hope you like it.
To make Vi in the version I imagined, I had to make a frontal portrait, where both versions of Vi could be appreciated, so I made a sketch looking to the front, on the right side I drew the things that characterize Vi at this stage, the black makeup, the band-aids on the forehead, then I chose the colors based a little on the shades that we appreciate in the series, on one side using brown tones a little warm but at the same time pale and on the other side more grayish brown, in a new layer I began to give more colors and details forming better the face, then I took care of mixing the colors with a hard and flat brush, using a medium opacity to leave texture on the face, at this point I was a little sad because I was not liking too much the drawing, but still I decided to continue.
After painting the eyebrows and eyelashes, besides fixing a little the colors of the face, I felt better with the way the drawing was taking, but there was still something missing... I decided to paint the hair to see if she only looked strange because of that, I used pink and fuchsia tones on the left side and a darker tone almost reaching black on the right side, I painted the clothes, making her red jacket on the left side and a dark jacket on the right, I realized that the problem was that the neck was too long, so I cut a little of the neck leaving it much better, I added illuminations on the face and I took care of the details like the make up, the scars and the tattoo on the face, for the background I chose to make a bright orange side and the other side a very dark brown color with messy orange lines that for me represent that break that she was going through at that moment, and so I finished my drawing, I really liked it, I don't know if someone has already done this drawing with the same idea but I didn't hesitate to capture it when it occurred to me, it was quite complicated but in the end I managed to do it just as I imagined it.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2022
- XP-PEN Deco Pro
Wow lovely art❤️
nicely done. perfect arcane style