Haru Ichiban's Blog - Posts Tagged "pin-up"

One of the projects I have for Forbidden is a series of pin-ups of the characters. So I'm starting with Lei. My, he looks kinda ferocious in here, LOL. He's usually sharp-tongued but quiet.

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When I saw this pic scanned, I almost screamed. The scanner absolutely butchered 90% of the icy blue tones in it! I need to redo this so they show up (somehow). Anyway…
Jason’s turn! Obviously, together with Lei should have come Sween, but the pose I want for her (which I already did, but botched it) will probably require a bit more nimbleness in my skills. It is a very hard pose… Anyway.
Jason is a secondary but recurring character in the Forbidden series. He’s the same race and rank as Sween (though he’s much older and experienced) so he also has a very childish personality, though in his case it’s better concealed. But he loves to play superhero! That should tell you a thing or two.
Observing Jason, I noticed he actually has a quite rigid posture. He needs to loosen up more! So not the best subject for making fluid poses.
About Jason… well, I merely described him as wearing a gothic outfit (to match his gothic looks), so I was wondering if to make a stylish one or a sexy one. But sexy is not his kind’s style: they are pretty, cute, beautiful and such, but I guess the sexy stuff is better reserved for humans and demons. Just a bit of flesh isn’t bad, though.

The specifics:
• Time taken: Approximately five and half hours. Discount one hour where I cooked, ate, washed the dishes and checked the mail. I am not counting here all the time I needed to get Jason in a relaxed pose (two hours, including massage).
• Media used: color pencils and black pen with some micromarker and pencil, some pastel. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
• 30-day trial: Day 2/30, July 6th 2018
• Technical notes to self: That pastel sucks, too bad I gave two bags to charity last week and could have donated this as well. I wonder if it’s cuz it’s old? But then again, the Caran d’Ache I have is ancient and doesn’t have that problem. Winter colors depress me.

Hmph, I think I’m finally mastering making smooth textures with light colors in pencils. So first I use a light color all over, then a medium color for the shading, and then a low-quality white pencil that acts as blender. (I don’t own an actual blender). The white pencil has so little pigment that smoothens the colored pencil strokes without lightening them.

However, I still had to use a much darker skin coloring than I’m used to. I need to find a way to make really light skin and still colored (since the scanner won’t read icy colors)

Anyway, today’s pin-up pic is about Sween’s sidekick Mayii. She’s supposed to look six, but since I don’t have much practice drawing kids, I went with some anime-style design. Love the dress, it’s just as I imagined it (actually, I imagined it a bit darker and I was afraid it would look too heavy).



And now that I got Sween, Jason, Archie and Mayii’s designs I can start the Angel Powers Compendium! Can’t promise when I’ll start, though. Angels using their powers seems a hard thing to draw! I need to just do it, I guess. I can always redo them later, when I got sharper skills.


The specifics:

•Time taken: Approximately four and half hours.
•Media used: color pencils and black pen with some micromarker and pencil. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
•30-day trial: Day 9/30, July 13th 2018
•Technical notes to self: So I kinda mastered doing smooth textures in light colors in pencils.