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How To Draw Anime Characters: Sketching, Inking & Coloring!

teacher avatar Yair Sasson Art, Artist

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      Class Intro

      0:47

    • 2.

      Sketching, Inking and Coloring Merged Zamazu

      23:00

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In-depth step-by-step drawing tutorial on how to sketch, ink, and color Merged Zamasu from the popular anime: Dragon Ball Super

TOOLS NEEDED-

SKETCHING:

  1. Mechanical pencil / typical modern-day pencil (HB2 preferred)
  2. Your everyday Eraser
  3. Optional: Eraser stick (for erasing tiny details)

INKING:

  1. 0.2/0.1 Black inking pen OR Black Color pencil - no matter the brand. (Personally, I use Copic Multiliner pens OR Prisma color pencils)
  2. Optional: 0.05 black inking pen (For facial details)

COLORING:

Markers OR Color pencils. (Preferably Copic Markers, but other markers will also do the job! If you prefer pencils, I recommend Prisma Colors or Faber Castel.

PAPER - I recommend on using paper that is over 200 grams (Personally I use a 270G paper)

 

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Yair Sasson Art

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Yair Sasson Art - Professional Artist, specializes in traditional art, Animator, Illustrator, Teacher to over million followers across the social platform, and Father of Pitzi (My majestic cat).

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1. Class Intro: Mm hmm. Wata everybody, my name is Zaire. I'm a professional artist for more than ten years specializing in traditional art as well as digital art. In this tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to draw your favorite character with three steps. First, we got the sketching process in which we learn how to draw the face and body using geometrical shapes and guidelines. In the second part, I'll teach you how to ink your drawing. And finally, in the first stage, we are going to color the drawing using copic matters or color pencils. So without further ado, pick up your pencils and let's get down to business. 2. Sketching, Inking and Coloring Merged Zamazu : Okay, so today, we are going to draw fused Samsu from dragon bow Super. If you'll check the description box, you can see all the materials I'm using for this tutorial. As you can see, I drew a perfect square. Each side is 4 centimeters, but you can draw it in any size you want to. Just make sure to use a suitable paper size. This is going to be a frontal pose. We're going to start by drawing the shape of the face simply by drawing five lines. Next, we'll draw the wriinkles between the eyes, and then we'll draw his eyebrow, and as you can see, it gets thinner towards the edge. We'll add the bump above the eye, and to draw his eye, we'll use four lines. It will be four curved diagonals. We'll place the iris and the pupil at the center but slightly to the left and then we'll draw his cheek marks, again, with some curves. Also next we'll draw the left eye, and as you know, the left eye will be much bigger because of the mutation. In this case, it doesn't have an eyebrow. I'm still using four lines. As you can see, it's three times bigger than the other eye eye. This time, the iris and the pupil will be much smaller. Add the cheek marks. Next, we'll add some more wrinkles here. And to draw the nose, we'll use eight lines. Do it by following these steps. Next, we'll give him a crazy looking smile, as you can see the gap between the mouth and the nose is really small, and the mouth almost reaches the cheek marks. We'll give him some sharp teeth. Add some wrinkles. And the next we'll add some veins. Awesome. Now we'll draw his melting skin from the mutation. Just draw some leaking, gooey, ugly, disgusting, whatever it is. And next, we'll draw the ears. So the ears kind of look the same as Picolos ear, only a bit smaller. We'll start with the shape of the ear, of course, and only then we'll add the details. We'll do the same for the left side, and if you want, you can use a ruler to maintain the right proportion. Next, I'm going to add some thickness to the eyes. And now we'll draw the potara earrings. So first, we'll start with the metal parts, adding two more pieces that connected to one another. And then, of course, the jewel and we'll do the same process for the left side. Awesome. So now we can focus on the hair. So first, I'm going to start by drawing two locks of hair from the front. The left one will be noticeably bigger than the white one. As you can see, it covers his eye and the ear. And next, we'll add some details for the locks of hair just by drawing some random lines in the direction of the hair. We're gonna do some adjustments to the melting areas, and now we can draw the rest of the hair. So we'll do that by drawing two spikes on each side. As you can see, I'm using three lines for each spike. Next, we're going to use this guideline to help me keep the right proportions, and now we're just going to add the rest of the spikes. And I almost forgot about the spike that goes down a bit. So just add it right there. And the next thing to do is just like before, adding some random lines in the direction of the h. Awesome. So now we can focus on the torso. First, we'll start by drawing two curves to indicate the neck. Next, we'll draw his shirt color. And the color bones. And now I'm just gonna draw the shape of the torso, as you can see, it looks like a trapeze. And once I got the overall shape, I can add all the details. So we'll refine his shirt. Add all the creases. M, and next we'll draw his arm. We'll start with the shoulder and then draw the tricep and the bicep. Next, we'll draw the button on the shirt. We'll draw the rest of the color. And then we'll draw his massive disgusting mutation arm. As you can see, I'm starting with the shoulder, then drawing the bicep and the tricep will make it a bit bigger. And then we'll add all those melting disgusting parts. Awesome. So we are done with the sketching part, and now we can move on to the inking process. So what you want to do is take some inking pens. Preferably the size of the tip you'll use will be 0.1, but you can use 0.2 as well. What we are going to do is hold the pen closer to the tip with a firm grip, and we'll just go all over the lines by pushing lines or pulling lines. Of course, we'll do that with our natural hand movement, and you can rotate the page in doing so because you want to be as comfortable as you can. Now, for the facial features, I'm going to use 0.05. That's a slightly thinner tip, and I'll do that just because I want to be more precise and more accurate on the facial features. Awesome. So once we are done, we're going to take the notorious Charcoal eraser and just get rid of all the lead. As you can see, I forgot to record that part, but just imagine me cleaning and erasing and of course, make sure to clean it very well because we don't want to smell the lead once we use the markers. We are going to use copic markers. Those are alcohol based markers, which means we can blend the colors very well. If you check your top left of the screen, you can see the exact number of copy I'll be using. However, if you don't have copic markers, you can use colored pencils or just use your HB and B pencils and do some shading. For starters, we'll focus on the shirt. As you can see, I'm coloring in the direction of the shape. I'll do that by pushing lines or pulling lines and basically cover this entire area. Next, I'm going to use a me tone that will be a darker tone, and I'll do that for the shaded areas. Now, for this drawing, the main light source will come from the right side, which means that the left side will appear darker because it gets less light. Next step will be blending and we'll do that by using the brightest tone again. As you can see, I'm just adding one more layer to mix the colors. Now I'm going to use the mid tone again to add more contrast. And next, we'll use an even darker tone that will be our darkest tone, C seven, and we'll add more shade And then we'll do some more blending. This time, we'll use the me tone to blend the darkest tone. And after that, we use the brighter tone to blend the mine, just like we did before. Next, we'll use a black tone for the shirt underneath because it's darker. And then we'll use a dark gray and a brighter gray. As you can tell, this time, I started from the darkest and then went to the brightest. So you can basically experiment and see what works for you best. Next, we'll colour those red stripes on the shirt. Again, we'll start with the brightest tone. After that, we'll use the mid tone. And then finally the darkest tone. And of course, just like before, we'll do some blending. We'll use the mi tone to blend the darkest tone and the brightest tone to blend the me tone. Next, I'm going to do some adjustments to the shirt because I see I got some blank areas right there, and we'll blend the colors just like that. For the button, we'll use some yellow colors. As you can see, I'm coloring in circles in the direction of the shape, starting with the brightest, then the metne and then the darkest tone, creating a nice gradient. Awesome next will be coloring this disgusting looking arm. We'll do that by using some purple tones. First, I'm going to start by marking all the highlighted areas, all those gooey things that sticks out a bit more, which means they will get more light. Then we'll use the meton covering this entire area. Next, we'll do some blending with the brightest stone again. And then we'll use the darkest stone to add some shade and we'll do that right below those guy gray things and on the far left of the arm. And you guess that's right the next step will be blending And now it's just a matter of adjustments, adding some more shade, doing some more blending until it looks smooth. As you can see, I'm using the bright purple to blend it with the shirt, coloring on top of the gray area. Awesome. So we are done with the torso and we can focus on the face. We start by coloring the right eye. As you can see, I'm leaving a blank area at the far right, creating a nice highlight. And just like before, we blend the colors. For the left eye, we use the same purple tones we used for the arm, and for the sclera, we'll use some yellow, green mustard tones. Create in some nice shade and blend it all. Next, we'll color the eyebrow with the same bright gray, and now we'll focus on the right side. So for that we'll use some green tones. Again, starting with the brightest tone, coloring in the direction of the shape that's important. Just put in one layer. Next, we'll use the midtone, adding some shade. After that, we'll use an even darker tone, adding some more shade. And then we'll use the darkest tone for the most shaded areas. And you guess that we are going to blend out of his face. For the mouth, we'll use two colors, two red colors, dark red, and we'll use a gray tone to add more shade. Next, we'll use a bright gray to add some shade for the teeth. And now we'll use the same colours we used for the arm, but this time for the face, just like before I'm going to start by marking all the highlighted areas, then adding shade with the mi tone. After that, I'm going to use the darkest tone for the most shaded areas right below those obnoxious stuff. And, of course, we do some blending. And to finish up, I'm going to use the bright green to blend the mid area just like that. Also, next, we'll color the earrings. We'll use three tones for that, starting with the brighter one, then using the mid tone, blending and using the darkest tone. We'll do the same process for the earrings. And if you want to get a brighter highlight, you can use the colorless bender and basically soak some of the ink out of the paper, and that creates a nice effect. Awesome. Next, we can focus on the hair. So I'm going to demonstrate how to color one spike of hair. We'll do that by using three gray tones. As you can see, I'm starting with S one coloring in the direction of the shape, and I'm going to leave some blank areas at the far right. Next, I'm going to use the mid tone. Then I'll add the darkest tone with a minimum use, not too much, and after that, we'll do some blending with the brighter tone. Awesome. So this is the result we want to get and we'll do the same for the rest of the hair. Of course, if you want, you can rotate the page and color it with the most comfort as you can. I'm not doing it because I want you to see exactly what I do. That makes sense. We'll add a bit more contrast here. And now I'm going to shout. So please load the volume just a bit. He. Everybody. This is how you draw fused amasu. Congratulations. If you made it this far. I hope you guys and girls enjoyed this tutorial. Let me know how you did in the comment section. Thanks a lot for watching. Keep being awesome as always. And I'll see you on the next video. Hey.