Nanowrimo requests #2 1/2

I run a manga character design shop during November, and I always try to make each character their own self, not just a another boy in a T-shirt. I haven't had lots of time for much else( as far as art), so here are a few of the characters I've been working on this month.

 Both chibi Draco and dawn's skin tone was created with the Beach blick marker and the prismacolor brick beige (personally one of my favorite skin tones) and I love it!

Nanowrimo manga character requests ~ RT

Coloring a chibi girl with tombow manga markers

I start out with the line art; I suggest using technical pens because they have a wide range of sizes and they don't bleed! Tombow markers are water based and will not make the ink run whether it's a technical pen or ball point, but I use prismacolor for my skin tones and that got a little messy here.

I used a pink prismacolor pencil over two of my blick skin tones( beach and sand) for a little bit of blush around her eyes.

Next I did the hair. Tombow markers will look darker than they really are when you first apply them, so give them time to dry before you color over. I did one solid layer, then went over the places that I wanted darker.

I love the Tombow marker's bright/un fading color. Sometimes I make mistakes, but 'let's make them birds,' aka making it appear like the mistake isn't a mistake.

I used the same red brown marker for the belt, boots, hair, and eyes to help tie the picture together.

Because Tombow markers are not alcohol based, they don't blend too well, and while the resulting texture is great for hair and the like, it doesn't do too well for her leggings. If you're not as perfectionist as I am you can see past it though. XD

I used the pink pencil from before to add various highlights, and several more prismacolors to create a patten on top of the red marker. One of my favorite techniques is to apply pencil on top of a marker image because I can add little details, highlights or hemlines and such after the fact.

Nanowrimo 2016 requests #2

I haven't had much time to do anything else this month, so here is another manga sketch dump of nanowrimo character requests I did this last week. :) Enjoy.

Three on a sidewalk: English w/ sketches

English translation of my chibi comic, Three on a Sidewalk( 3oS) pg 1 and 2:

Concept art (on notebook paper no less):

 This third one is a concept sketch for another 3OTS comic. Chris is closing the restaurant, but Isa's there, being a little despondent. It's date night and Robbie is working. Chris gets an idea.... 'You know... I could take you out.'

Nanowrimo Requests 2016 #1

This is gonna be a long one. Here are a few of the manga characters I have finished for Users on Nanowrimo. Characters belong to the respective authors.

Kat here is my favorite because of the way I balanced her hip and the weighted line son her jeans- I just love it!

 This is Archer along with his concept design sketches.

 This is Ashe, chibi and head-shot.

Below are several more character requests:

This last one is a 'quicky sketch' of several of the above characters, something I do right away to capture the feel for a character. It's right at this first step where I find out if I'm going to enjoy drawing a character or not.