How are you doing today? I want to show you this drawing I recently did, it's actually the first male character I've made for Holozing.
I think it's because I'm kind of scared, I don't know why, but I usually don't draw males much. Over the years, compared to the female drawings I've done, males make up less than 10%, so yeah, I need to practice more and do them more often. I'm not very good at drawing males, so this time I tried a portrait of The Male Light Healer .
I made this drawing in Photoshop, and this time I went with a safe lineart because it felt more secure to do so. You'll see why below; I'll share some images of the process.
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I think I've figured out why I sometimes sketch with lines and sometimes I don't. It's actually because when I'm not so confident, I sketch lines mainly because I want to get the idea, see how the drawing look, the position, and if it looks good. I think it's good to continue from there. It's very different when I don't do the lines because when I don't do the lines, I just start drawing freely, which is mostly how it goes. Sometimes, for very complicated characters with many elements, I might try sketching first and then improving and working on it gradually.
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The second part of this drawing was adding some color. Clearly, I left the outline at the beginning. I usually leave the outline on top a bit and then collapse all the layers later, but for now, I just needed it on top. Underneath that layer, I worked on adding a bit of color, just to have a base layer. The truth is, it wasn't going to be that color I was going to use, but I just needed something selected, so I used it to give it some volume.
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After a while, I was fixing more things and adding more colors. I even changed the color I had before, which as I said, wasn't going to work. I also collapsed the layers. Well, I selected two layers, or sorry, I split the outline into two layers. One would be the hair; I painted a flat color right away. The other, I pasted onto what was the clothing and the face, which were on the same layer. I didn't have too many layers to go crazy with; it was better that way. I also added a slightly lower opacity to generate a bit more depth, especially for the skin. I'm going to add some colors to the face to start detailing things more
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As the lines progressed, they started to fade. There were actually very few lines left; some details needed to be done. I added the jacket, which reminds me a bit of Abel's from an anime I used to watch. Well, beyond that, there were some other improvements in the face; there were almost no more lines, and there was a bit more realism. For the background, I selected one I had done before that suited the style, and I merged it with what I already had. I didn't focus much on the background.
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I fixed some things that I wasn't liking, actually. I think there was a problem with the shading; it looked weird. So, I improved it a bit. Additionally, I added some small gold touches that the character had. The only thing that I think changed a bit was what was on the head, I placed it outside the head because it's attached to the hair.
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I think the suit was still lacking, so I improved it a bit more. The head also needed improvement; there were some mistakes, and I improved them gradually by adding some colors, shadows, and other things that I hadn't done yet. Beyond that, although I'm scared of doing men, I'm a bit happier with this result.
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To finish, as always, there were details to fix, adjustments of color, touches of shine, and I think some other little things. The hair, which I hadn't done during all this time, I hadn't said anything about it, just the line and the same line with color, and that was all to finish this drawing.
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