Drawing Dabi from the anime ‘My Hero Academia’

Today, I thought I could tell you a drawing progress blog on one of my favorite villain from the anime series of ‘My Hero Academia’ which is Dabi. In the anime, he has made his appearance at the end of season two and made way through season three, yuuuus! He’s good-looking but he has his limit if he gets damaged too much. I haven’t caught on watching it even though there were a bunch… I mean a BUNCH of spoilers that I did saw a bit from instagram. I had to take a peek of course and I saw lots of happened pretty quickly. I’m looking forward to binge watch it once Ramadan is over.

So, here’s a drawing progress post on my drawing of Dabi ✨

A closer look on the wip of Dabi

Let’s talk about his appearance first. He has like this eye-catching patchwork face detailed with large sections of skin that are purple and deeply wrinkled. Around his patch of skin and other parts of his body looks as if it was stapled or stitched together. It’s kinda creepy but looks detailed pretty nicely. More like a piece of art. He has several piercings on his ears and some on his nostrils. His mouth is like stapled making him grin most of the time. He likes to chuckle. (^ワ^＝)

So, everyone needs superpowers right? Well, in this anime they call it ‘quirk’ and quirk is a special, superhuman ability an individual can possess. Quirks are generally unique to their user, and are classified in multiple categories. And for Dabi, I’m not sure what quirk he uses… it’s hard to tell. I can only find out from the manga but I’m sticking with the anime, hehe.

Like I’ve said, his face is highly detailed and it was simple to draw it out… to me. It took me 50 minutes to be exact. After the face, I make my way to his ear, I didn’t put much effort on the ear piercing because I’ll be doing that later. I work my way down to his neck and then his hair. I want to check if the hair will work perfectly on the eyes I’ve drawn. Once I’m satisfied on how it looks, I go for the details right away. I’m that type of person. I don’t normally just sketch it all out. I just go for it.

She finished quicker than me.

Since my sister was near me at my desk, I asked her if she would like to draw Dabi with me even though I had a head start. She said yes, and drew while laughing.  I was just starting to do his hands and when I was not even close to finishing, my sister said ‘DONE!’ and I told her, that was fast.

It took her 15 minutes. 

And look, she did it close to perfect! Better than me tbh hahahaha

hair + more details

After that competition, I continued on finishing his hair and adding details as I go. It looks great so far, right?

I look from my laptop :’)

So far so good. Adding more in to the details by using a 2B pencil does the trick. I sometimes use 3B for the hair because dark hair is in need of a darker shade. But since I don’t have a 3B pencil, I’m sticking with 2B.

need yogurt to keep goingggg…

As you can see, it’s close to finishing! I wanted to take a break and ate strawberry yogurt to get my energy filled up. I continued by sketching a bit on his coat. You need that shadow to make it more unique. And yes, I used a 2B pencil for this.

Aaaaaaaannnnnnnndddd, voila! It’s done-dilly-done.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post, it was fun drawing him because he’s just an amazing major antagonist in the anime. I can’t wait to find out what quirk he uses… and he’s quite hot. (hehehe)

Thank you and hope to see you in the next post! Do follow my blog for more ❤

BTS – Drawing Rap Monster

Yup.

Next portrait that I also did last year was Rap Monster.

This is by far my favorite portrait I’ve done from the other members. (I did J-Hope, Jimin, Suga and Jin but I didn’t like how it turned out so…) I took a week to finish this piece because I wanted to make this perfect and highly alike as possible. The concept of this album  which is ‘Never Walk Alone’ they made was really breathtaking. The photos that they took were just astonishingly amusing to see. Also, the songs. It works perfectly well, to be honest. And since that they dropped a new album just a few days ago called ‘Love Yourself: Tear’ it’s going to be amazing for the ARMY fans, lol.

ps. I just know these things because my sister talks about them okay?

But ofc, there were some things that I were positioned terribly on.

My favorite portrait I’ve done. pls don’t steal. : P

1. The ice cream is small but in reality, it’s a bit bigger and highly detailed with the flowers and petals inside. 
2. His hair is a bit lazily detailed, lol. I’m sorry, I need to learn how to draw hair.
3. The details of his sweatshirt/jacket was poorly drawn. 
4. Maybe the ear too? hahahahaha And that’s basically what I believe are not positioned well or drawn wrongly. But overall, I would give this portrait a 9/10, as an artist… I don’t have to be criticized by people on how it’s not correctly positioned/what’s wrong in the drawing. I really like it. No, I love it. I supposedly believe this is my best work than the others I’ve drawn. I love the hand and the face but in a matter of fact, I love everything I drew here.// Thank you for reading and I hope it’ll inspire for you all to draw because art is all about having fun and fun is when you’re happy drawing something that you believe you can do ❤ 

Ramadan – my thoughts and some points.

Ramadan is the month that we can feel how the less fortunate feels. So I try not to cut back on things. I don’t suddenly sleep more or work less just because it’s Ramadan. Test your limits, word hard, pray hard and appreciate it all.

This made me realize how strong us Muslims are – hot, hungry, thirsty, and not allowed to complain about it otherwise our fast for Allah won’t be accepted. I love how it’s trying to show us Muslims that we CAN do anything, and after Ramadan we always look back and think… “wow, how did I survive to that?”. Islam tests our limits, teaches us discipline, shows us how lucky we are to have food and water, in hopes that we can become better, stronger and more wholesome human beings. // Fasting is only 1% of not eating and drinking. The rest of the 99% is bringing your heart and soul closer to Allah. 

Ramadan helps you overcome addictions such as, smoking. Smoking is still on-going in my village in Thailand. I see that after breaking their fast or after Tarawih prayers they like to continue on with their habit. But not just at home, they like to do it in front of the mosque after prayer. I don’t like it one bit. If I happened to make a complaint, I don’t think they’ll listen to a 21 year old. But I do want the imaan to encourage them not to do such a thing (even though the imaan does smoke too). I don’t know what to do. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Ramadan encourages people to help one another. Giving zakat (charity) and helping around the house. Not only just women should do all of the cleaning and cooking, the men should start to know that women are not their housemaids, they are their partners. Giving charity is a number one priority, to me. My family has given our friends/workers who are poor; large packets of rice, a box of dates (to break their fast and not to mention, it really helps endure hunger), sugar and cream soda? It’s like those colored liquids that make the water turned into a sweet drink. I hope that this will benefit them during month of Ramadan. I’m not trying to brag on what my family does, but they are in need… A LOT.

I’m currently studying more and more and reading the Qur’an as I go during the month of Ramadan before going back to the US once again. I may need your du’as in the progress because I’m unsure if I can do it. I have friends that gave me the encouragement but I’m still scared, lol. Thank you for your time. :’)

Self-reminder before breaking the fast – The prophet said the one that makes du’a just before they break their fast, Allah will accept it and not reject it. Don’t be distracted by the food guys and make du’a before.

✨ If this is the Ramadan you’re praying your solat (salaah) regularly for the first time, or have opened the Qur’an after a very long while. If you swore for the first time that you won’t come close to a sin you usually commit or battling the depression within the sake of feeling like a so called ‘real Muslim’ then I pray that this Ramadan will help you start anew. Ameen.

A quote that I sincerely saw this morning is: 

“If fasting was simply about feeling like the poor and hungry, God would not make the poor and hungry fast.”  – Sheikh El Shaarawy

Have a blessed Ramadan everyone, and may any tests this month be easy for you to face. ❤

BTS drawing progress – Jungkook.

*This was a past I did last year, pls don’t judge ty)

After believing I did an awesome job on V, I thought I could continue on with another member from BTS. And you can already tell who it is from the title and the pictures that are displayed. (ﾉ･ｪ･)ﾉ

It all started when I asked a couple of my friends what should I draw next because as you can tell, I had no clue what to draw. One of them said “Pls, draw me.” Another said, “Draw me pls, I look really cute on my profile picture.” I was like, this doesn’t give me any motivation to draw you. So, I declined their offer. But out of nowhere, I did wrote a post for the first 5 people, I’ll draw whatever they like. So, 5 people liked and I had to draw them anything they desired. It was hell for me to be honest. (;﹏;) I tried to endure it as possible because it was my fault to make this terrible decision. Now, I won’t be doing that anymore. (oT-T)尸~~ (I surrender)

YOSH. Let’s get on to the drawing process of Jungkook. This was highly requested from a friend of mine in Malaysia. She’s someone that listens to me when I’m having a mental breakdown. You should always have a friend who can always give advices. Those friends are a keeper. She is one huge fan of BTS… just like my sister. My friend has a huge crush on Jungkook, this why I’m drawing him. Drawing out Jungkook started out difficult because of the eyes and nose (and later on, the mouth… my weakness).

My potato laptop + unfinished piece of Jungkook. (pls don’t steal)

You can see that I’ve sketched out his mouth already but still, when I added in all of the details it just wasn’t right.

To this day, I still haven’t achieved to draw his mouth. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

I think his nose is not correctly placed. But I think I did a good job huhu.

Drawing out Jungkook was fun, despite that I didn’t get a chance to do his mouth. I had fun doing the details of his fuzzy sweater and the eyes. Oh yeah, I did happened to have trouble with his eyes, haha. Oh well, it looks alright. And I bet you’re all thinking… why are his ears a bit weird? And yes, I can see that now when I took that picture in the past. I won’t be fixing it anytime soon but I just wanted to show you the pressure I faced and the process when I drew him.  Hope you enjoyed reading ^

ps. I didn’t have a desk at the time. So I did this on my bed if you’re all wondering and yes, I did have back pain for leaning too much. I was just too focused on drawing it perfectly. Life as an artist, I would say.

BTS portrait drawing – the process of Tae-Tae.

Starting to self-learn on how to draw portraits is pretty simple but very time consuming. Sketching out the portrait was difficult for me because I don’t normally sketch it out, I just start immediately on the eyes and work my way. But now, I’ve been using other techniques on how to make my way to the finish line. Here’s how:

Since I knew BTS from my sister and knowing how aesthetic their photos are, I thought I could start with my favorite which is of course, Taehyung a.k.a V. The process for this was nerve-wrecking for me because it’s been a long time since I last did portraits on a daily basis. I chose a portrait that contained closed eyes as a start and thought it was simply easy. But in a matter of fact, it was. Then I start my way down to the nose. The trick is to blemish/shade on to the nose to make it realistic. You may sketch it out gently to make sure it’s perfect before shading in. Next, I would continue on with the mouth/lips but I’m terrible at it. I kept on trying and still… it hasn’t been perfect-o. Which is why I do the hair and do the shading around his face and move on to the next day to do his mouth. I would sometimes leave the mouth empty until I’m ready. Yup, that’s me.

Once the hair is all done, I like to go to the plushie he’s holding because it’s near him and whatever is near him, I do it. It’s like connecting the dots or piece by piece. The plushie of Eevee is easily done, just by shading and drawing it out. After finishing up on the plushie, you guys should know what’s next; it’s his hands.

For his hands, remember his hand is not straight, it’s more like it’s been slanted a little. Make sure that his hand gesture is just right. After doing that, go straight to shading and make it realistic by using a 0.5 led mechanical pencil. If you guys didn’t know, I’ve been using a 0.5 in all of my drawings. Well, only just shading out the dark spots I used a 6B. I don’t change to another pencil because… I’m lazy and I don’t have all the pencils, lol. Next up, the neck. Like I said, shading is important. And finally, the shirt.

Do keep in mind that this is my first portrait after a long time. I haven’t really put much effort doing it because I didn’t have any spare time. You can tell from the lips, it’s not put into much effort. I have many other portraits from my BTS collection that I would love to share. So, stay tuned for those in the future. Hope you have learned a thing or two.

Thank you for reading and happy drawing!

– Aris

katakuri drawing.

To start, I thought showing you all my drawing of Charlotte Katakuri from One Piece. I’ve been a big fan of the works of Eiichiro Oda of One Piece when I started to watch the anime like 3 years ago. As you may know, it is the Whole Cake Island arc and so far, things are going in a slow pace but it’s going really well.

the process.

I’ve started out drawing Katakuri when he first revealed himself with his awesome jelly bean pistol attack. His appearance is what made everyone shooked and his bounty. His appearance is extremely tall, large, and muscular with short spiky crimson hair and two symmetric scars on both sides of his face.  He is currently the main antagonist of his arc, I believe. His haki is what made me surprised because he can see the future for a few seconds and know every move what an enemy makes and he’s very strong. I don’t think Luffy will be able to defeat him but will manage somehow to make his way through him in 20 full episodes. (hahaha) His bounty is high but that doesn’t judge on how well-fought he is.

After almost finishing his body and details on his shirt and stuff, I tried to find the full page of this specific drawing and it was of course from the manga itself. It was easy to find and I drew it immediately. I like the style of his outfit, tattoo and the belts he wears. The belts reminded of Squall from Final Fantasy VIII for me. Also, the featherly jacket.

You can watch me draw him on my youtube channel, do give it some love and subscribe :’)

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