Hey Hive!
We're back again with another Art Attack! If you're new to the series, this is where I share my drawings and the process behind them. A behind-the-scenes look at my artwork, if you will. This is not to say that I'm very good at art, or that I'm a professional in any way. In fact this is the opposite, and serves as a reminder to how I first started, and lets me track my progress too!
If you missed the last couple of posts, I started a new series where I use this template to draw different characters based on suggestions from my viewers on Twitch!
I found this template on Facebook one day, and had the idea to draw different characters for a potential NFT series in the future maybe? And instead of drawing characters I already know I thought asking chat would be cool since it would expose me to different characters too!
Anyway, this was a request by one of my viewers who was also one of my mods' brothers! He goes by Falln_Kaminari on Twitch and wanted me to draw Himiko Toga from My Hero Academia! I've never watched the show before but I have heard about it and know there are many unique characters who are either heroes and villains? But I know it's really popular so it was exciting to try to draw her!
So I did some research on what she looks like and her base design does look pretty simple. I did a 5 minute sketch on stream and got this, which was mostly just her hair:
After that I went back and redid the sketch to change up the facial expression and pose a little bit so I could capture her character better. I know NFTs back then were kinda standard in that they stuck quite heavily to the template they used but I wanted mine to be more unique, especially if I was going to be drawing existing characters.
Anyway, Himiko Toga seems to be quite a crazy sadist and can be creepy character who likes killing so I thought drawing her with a more manic expression would be apt. She mainly uses knives but also has quite a few gadgets and a gas mask that she wears as her villain attire. I was considering drawing it but decided against it in the end since I wanted this one to be more simple, and didn't want to cover her face. So this was the revised sketch:
After that I thought it was good to outline and ended up with this:
And then it was time to colour! The colouring didn't take too long considering there were only 4 main colours anyway. I did give her face more shadow to make her look creepy and match her expression.
For the background, since I didn't really know what exactly to draw for her I just went with something simple - bloodstains. Since she likes killing a lot but I didn't want to get blood on her, this was a good opportunity to try the splatter brush again! And in the end this was the result!
Although this was good enough for Falln I think I could've done more with this piece. In hindsight I might have just been lazy and needed a break since I was also working on other stuff at the time while doing this and was slowly getting burnout from all the requests I had been doing. But if I had to change this I would've drawn more of her villain attire for sure. Like maybe her neck scarf thing instead of the gas mask like this one:
Source: anime planet
Overall I still like it though and thought it looked pretty good but I think it could've looked even better for sure! Oh well.. Falln wasn't even a regular on stream anymore so I didn't think the extra effort was worth it since he wasn't going to see it. And I knew the next piece was going to take me a while so this was a good break at least.
Here's the timelapse:
I stream on Twitch Monday to Saturdays 10pm GMT+8, playing games like Genshin Impact, Valorant and other games with chat! We also do giveaways, movie nights, tournaments and karaoke streams! It's always a chill time so stop by whenever and maybe you can get your own art too!
Thanks so much for reading!
To find out more about me, check out my intro post here!
Check out my previous post in this series!
