Art Request #3 - Ichika Nakano

Hello! I'm back with another fan art.
Today we have here an art request from Hive account@dreamm

The request was either Paimon from Genshin Impact or Ichika Nakano from 5 Toubun no Hanayome. I've been drawing more Genshin Impact lately so I picked Ichika to try something new.

I've been hearing the anime but I haven't watched it yet myself so I'm not that sure what kind of a person she is. I did some research and what most hit me is that she wears a fake smile since she is the oldest and to make herself approachable.

This was done on my pen tablet and Clip Studio Paint.
Here is the process.

Sketch

Firstly we have the sketch, I'm not really confident here if I could make Ichika's face correctly. It first felt like I can't do the anime's art style and I kind of don't know what to do. So I just made a rough sketch of her pose and decided to resolve the problem in the line art.

Line art

The details were done here in the line art. I was relieved that I kind of got her face right. I'm not really good at making creases on clothes so I'm also glad that it turned out alright.

Base Color

After line art, of course we will now go into coloring. The base colors were placed to serve as a guide so I can just use eye dropper and adjust it to make its darker or lighter color.

Shading and Lighting

In shading and lighting, I did not use "multiply" effect on layer that much instead I just adjusted the brightness and darkness from the base color.

Eyes, Hair, and Skin

Clothes

Background

Lastly is the background, wherein I put Ichika's name and placed a colored shadow.

References

That's all for today.
I was actually a bit nervous since it's my first time receiving request from someone in Hive.
I hope you liked it!

---

If you want to see more of my works or if you also have any request you can always visit and contact me at my:
Twitter
Instagram