Today, I was thinking of presenting you how I did the art for my Ascension CB team "DEADℒ⚙ͼk".

I will apologize ahead for the lenght of this video. Though since the process was quite lenghty,

the video itself will also be quite long.

With that said, let's get right into it!

The program I will be using here is of course, Paint Tool SAI2.

ATTENTION: Since all the footages were taken from stream recordings,

some parts of the process might be missing.

Context: There are 4 singers participating in this collaboration,

which each have 2 sets of illustrations prepared for them. But since the second set wasn't recorded,

I am unable to show you it's process in this video.

Therefore, I will only be presenting you the making of the main set of illustrations.

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BTW:.To draw clean lines, I tend to draw quick and long strokes,

but it also ends up with me abusing of the undo button...

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Usually, I will start with the outline (of the body) and then add on the clothes on top.

Personally for me, it makes the drawing of the clothes (folds) a bit easier.

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Of course, if there's any objects overlapping, feel free to draw it on a new layer.

Doing so, you can then easily erase the object that shouldn't be seen later on.

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Since a CB round is quite short, it is strongly suggested to give in the art to the animator as soon as possible.

In this case, once I'm done with the colored sketches, I immediately send them over to the animator.

Since the animator can then begin earlier, their workload is already reduced quite a bit.

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!!ATTENTION!!

Please note that not all animators like this method.

In the end, it all depends on the preference of the animator.

With that in mind, it would be better for you to consult with your team's animator beforehand.

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Lineart Begins

This time, there will be 2-3 facial expressions to each singers.

For that reason, we will be separating the body and facial expression into different layers.

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The lineart is almost done! As a finishing touch, we want to make the contour lines a bit thicker.

By doing so, the drawing will surely pop out more/feel more tangible.

Let's also thicken the overlapping objects and not only the contour of the drawing.

NB:If you thicken the lines of the objects closest to the watcher, it will make the drawing seem more dynamic.

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!!ATTENTION!!

Remember well how we seperated the lineart layers of the facial expressions from the body.

You MUST do the same thing for the shading/coloring.

Please do the coloring for this facial expression on it's own layer.

(Don't do a mistake like I did OTL)

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I'm sorry if I tried various combinations...

Since it's been a while since i last colored an illustration, I'm was a bit rusty.

Consequently, I've been wanting to find a new coloring style and work with that.

To do so, I will be playing around with layer modes, working through trial and errors and changing hues.

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The advantages of digital art must be how easily you can modify a drawing...

No matter what mistake you do, as long as you can find it, you can easily fix it.

For example here, the eye position was a bit odd, so I moved it.

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And there you go! This is all the recorded process I had.

How was it?

As you can see, it's quite a tough task, and it did prove itself quite hard to draw.

But looking at the results, it does feel worth it in the end!

I do hope somehow that this video was helpful to some.

With that said, Let's meet in the next video!

IYUSE, OUT. BBY