Drawing #48 ~ Variation of Majora's Mask on Link; Digression: Downtown Sculpture

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I chose the glasses emoji today because I am currently wearing my
♡glasses♡
They're not square frames though.

I made a previous post about my inking Link, and I didn't think I would go any further with drawing Link, but as I was looking at him, he was looking pretty plain. I know many people draw anime and that's great and all, but I feel that if I am drawing anime, I should use it to work on improving some aspect of my drawing, or put my own spin on it.

I did both this time; I wanted to learn how to make hair more realistic, despite it being anime, and I thought it would be more interesting if I drew my own variation of Majora's Mask imposed over Link's face. I recently inked Todoroki from My Hero Academia too, and now that I'm looking at it, I want to change him up also! I'm not sure that I will though since I was given an image to draw. I'm not sure how much wiggle room I have for creativity there. Todoroki will probably stay the same. I haven't decided if I'm going to color Link or not, I would still have to figure out a color scheme for him.

That little Link is still looking spunky. It's kind of funny seeing both Links in the same picture.

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Here is the drawing process:

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Here, I bolded the lines underneath each chunk of hair to add some depth to the picture. I also added more flowing lines.

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I added even more thin lines in the hair, but I also used a fine point Copic liner to thin out the ends of the hair. I think this part added the most realism to the picture, which makes sense because hair doesn't clump at the end, it ends with fine wisps of hair.

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Goodbye pretty face!
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It doesn't look like much changed in this picture, but here is where I worked on Link's hat a little more by adding some shading. I also added some shading under his neck, collar, and on his clothes.

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Here it is more evident that I focused on shading the clothes. Though, honestly, I have no idea how to shade clothing. That's probably one of the future projects I will work on. I just made some guesses as to how it might look with shading. It was too strange for me to look at a detailed head and hat with 2-D clothing.

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Again, I did add more to the hair here, but the focus was more on his face. I added a little more detail to the mask with the teeth on his face and added some other details on his face.

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Before and After

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Digression: Downtown Sculpture

Since today's post was kind of long, today we will look at this sculpture I found whilst walking around downtown and ponder it's meaning.

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Thanks for pondering with me!
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