Hello everyone and Happy New Year! Today I will share with you the step by step of my version of the Ocean Healer from the Holozing game, I really like the theme that surrounds this character, and I wanted to give it my personal touch, as I have been busy working irl, I haven't had too much time to do pixelart animations for funn, just for work lol, but wherever I go and wherever I am I can always do 2D illustrations as something relaxing, I wanted to give it a more traditional look, for the background I used a noise effect, I used textured pencil and the watercolor brush in the clip studio program.
I hope you enjoy the step by step and get inspired too !
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1-I always start with a sketch, but usually the first thing I do is the eyes, it's a bad habit, so I had to make the guide lines to locate where the other eye would be, along the process I make several changes according to her face or her clothes, here I wanted to make the hair straight and long like a waterfall keeping abstractly the concept of water in this character.
2- here I already had the two eyes, the eye on the missing side was a headache even for me it took me longer than usual to fix it to make it look decent.
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1- I initially wanted to make her a short dress, because I wanted to make this character in a more "normal?" everyday environment? but I was not convinced.
So I made some quick changes in the dress and not only that but also in the small details and accessories.
to finally look like this
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and I finished with some details that go along with the story and the character's theme :3
I hope you liked my version or you learned something, if you liked it give me a like ! it helps me a lot !
see you next time