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!
It's been a while but we're back with my mini-series where I draw different characters based on suggestions from my viewers on Twitch!
I found this template on Facebook and had the idea to draw different characters for a potential NFT series in the future, but then the whole NFT thing kinda tanked. But I thought it was still an interesting drawing exercise to do and I wanted to reward my loyal viewers. So instead of drawing characters I already know I thought asking chat would be cool since it would expose me to different characters too!
This request was my one of my viewers who goes by tofuyes on Twitch! The character he chose was "Black Rose Goku" and since I'm not very familiar with the Dragonball series, I didn't know this was a thing but apparently it's the Super Saiyan version of Goku Black? I have no clue, but it basically looks like normal Super Saiyan Goku in a different colour scheme, from what I found online. I guess he has a magic scythe that he uses for his weapon?
As with all these NFT art pieces I only follow the template for the overall shape and position but I do cater the poses and facial expressions to the character that I'm drawing. I also do a custom background that suits them.
For this one, Goku Black seems to do that pose with his hands a lot so I tried my best to incorporate that and his weapon as well, and after a few minutes of sketching on-stream, this was what I got:
It took some adjustments to get his face to look like the template but also like Goku. I basically just traced the Goku reference and adjusted it to the template but kept the round face and redrew his eyes so it'd match. I wasn't too sure about the round face but I had to keep it for the sake of having some consistency between all these different characters.
It seemed pretty alright so after that it was time to outline!
I tried my best to draw his hand as accurately as I could while still maintaining the art style but it still looks a little weird to me.
I used the colours from the reference pics and filled him in, and I think I did a pretty good job on the shadows of his outfit. I tried different brushes for his hair to give it more texture but not sure if it works.
His weapon looks like it's just made of pure energy/light so I didn't want to do a bold outline on that and just used my light brushes and some textures on the pink to give it that anime effect.
And finally for the background I went with something simple; that classic anime background with lots of lines similar to one of the reference pics where it looks like he's in battle. Even though I don't watch too many animes, I realise they do use this effect quite a lot although I can't really put into words what it depicts other than speed or flashy epic scenes. It seems to be more common in older animes though not sure about new ones these days.
I didn't know what else to add to this piece since I'm not familiar with the character or the series, so I guess this was done! Here's the timelapse:
If you're interested, I do draw on stream sometimes and you can even claim free artwork if you get enough channel points! We also play lots of interactive games so come hang out with us on my Twitch channel!
Thanks for reading!
To find out more about me, check out my intro post here!
Check out my previous post in this series!
