Steps: GUNNHILDR chibi (old)

good day, folks!
this is me again, Lazcht, coming with some old article share from my old and abandoned personal blog called Prey Heaven. i stopped to write on that blog, and decided to focus here instead.


when i looked back what's inside that blog, i noticed i have quite good step-by-step articles back then in years, so i decide to bring some of them here, and maybe will blog the new step-by-steps here sometimes later.

i hope i can help people out there by sharing a bit of my drawing technique. mind that im not thinking like.. im so great & famous artist who wants to teach all of u the right way of drawing technique, or something like that XD all my art skill mainly is self-taught, so this section is simply "my way to do drawing".

2009's Gunnhildr fanart for mazjojo's doujinshi guest art:

note: just in case to prevent confusion, i made these steps the same time i was progressing the art, so if you find"i will put blah blah next time" that's it.

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1. just traditional sketch at some random paper, i wanna make them cute but also cool at the same time, practicing action pose on chibi too. pls tell me ur advice, i already asked mazjojo's guidance for the sword's perspective, i'll put my next progress here next time. im planning to ink it digitally, and make it BW artwork.
2. oomph sorry loong jumping, i did this when i'm on cousin's house and in the middle of rushing mazjojo's deadline -_-; so i don't even remember to save my progresses before this one. let's see. im using the no 1 sketch just for my inking guide at SAI (great software, u can find the trial here ). why not Photoshop? i found SAI's inking tool more sharp than PS's, so i prefer SAI. hmm as i'm not good at inking, i only can say, neater the sketch, easier the lining, that's for me though. i made each character on different layer. unfortunately i've already fill the black part here.
3. hatching/ shading time! i use different layer here, i often fail at neat hatching, coz i usually draw sketchy lines and ended up messed with hatching. first step i draw lines as mark for the shading border so i wont be confused where i should hatch later. and finally it's done.
4. final touch? just play around with effects on Photoshop and VOILA! it's done. the logo's not mine btw. hope it helps :)

And that's a bit of nostalgia to me, haha. See ya next time!

~Laz out!