Pixel Painting Series Tutorial 10: Character Modeling Who doesn’t want to have a personalized avatar on BBS or a set of dedicated character icons in his or her guestbook? Therefore, pixel character drawing is sought after by many people. More and more people are gradually entering the field of pixel painting because they are loyal to the “elves” in this small space. Then this chapter will guide you into the world of personalized avatar drawing through the drawing of an ancient MM avatar.
Create a new 32×32 document and use auxiliary lines to roughly divide the center line , top of head, eyes, chin, various parts of the body. The next step is to draw the outline of the character in black. When drawing the outline of a character, the outline of the character is not required to be completely drawn in one step. It often requires repeated modifications to have a more reasonable prototype. Of course, before doing all this, you must first establish a character image or action in your mind, and determine whether the character you want to draw is Q version, comic, or realistic.
After shaping the basic shape (but here I want to remind everyone that although the character shape is shaped Okay, but you still have to make changes as you go along until it’s complete) and you can start coloring. First of all, determine the skin color of MM. There is no doubt that MM is a descendant of the Chinese people, and of course she has yellow skin. Next draw the blue gown and red underwear. The color of the clothes here only plays a supporting role in order to coordinate the overall color layout.
Describe the color of the hair, in order to combine the hair on the forehead with the hair on the back of the head To distinguish it, we fill in the front hair with gray. At the same time, the head decorations were slightly modified.
After the basic colors are drawn, the lighting from left to right is planned. Start using darker colors to paint the dark areas of the hair, face and clothes. When drawing, you will find that although the left part is illuminated and the right part is backlit, and the right part is darker than the left part, they will interact with each other after being illuminated. For example, the hair on the forehead creates shadows on the face, and the head of the character directly affects the light and dark relationship between the neck and shoulders.
In order to continue to enrich the picture, create a moving image of classical beauties in a limited space. image, we considered adding accessories to her head. The shape of the accessories can be determined according to the hairstyle. In short, it should be simple and effective to enrich the monotonous flat place of the hairstyle. After finally drawing the ornaments on one side, copy, paste, and horizontally flip the ornaments on the other side.
Modify the face, based on the two colors of skin color and dark side On the face, use the method of adding intermediate colors to make the facial color transition more natural and full. At the same time, the color around the eyes should also be slightly painted to make it more harmonious with the face.
In order to show the texture of the hair on the forehead, in-depth characterization is also required. , according to the vertical structure of the hair, add bright colors along the vertical direction to enhance the texture of the hair. Compare between enlarged and normal display and make further changes.
The last step is to unify the whole and depict some small details, such as modifying the ring. Bun, draw highlights; draw eye color, replace the original blue part with brown, etc. A piece of pixel character work is completed. If you want to make the works you draw more realistic, you must grasp the characters’ personalities and incorporate your own emotions into them, so that the works will be more exciting.