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Spent like 4 hours practicing today by redrawing some Sakusa panels. I normally shy away from drawing characters by anyone else because whatever I make looks NOTHING like how their artists made them. It’s especially bad when my art style is really different from the original too.
I’m very particular with how I draw characters and I get frustrated when they (a) have the same face, (b) look different each time I draw them, (c) look nothing like I envision. The only way I’ve found around this is being incredibly faithful to their details.
The details make the picture, even 1mm, a sharp edge, a different angle, a but maybe especially a change in proportion can make a difference. Pinning down those details help me boil down their design down to something I can translate to my art style and keep them recognizable.
Sakusa was hard to study. There aren’t that many large panels of him and he can look pretty different between panels (depending on the angle and expression).
And idk I feel like Furudate hated to draw his hair in all but the last chapter (where it’s fluffy rather than jagged).
But I think I’ve figured out what is quintessentially Sakusa’s design (i.e. how to distinguish him from Matsukawa). Large, round, and deep set eyes, softer/rounded edges, small mouth, and thick-ish but short brows.
And as for his facial proportions, they look shorter than average? I found myself correcting my guidelines in the way I do for OCs with shorter faces, at least. His eyes take up a large part of his face and the rest of his face feel small in proportion.
It’s hard to explain but his face is small in a way that’s different than any of the other characters, even Hinata and Hoshiumi. I’m thinking that it has more to do with his less prominent lower third/jaw area and his eyes taking up so much space on his midface.
