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