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Any tips on how to draw Lucanis? Like your thought process? Yours is the most accurate I’ve seen and I’m in awe 🙇🏽‍♀️

Hello Anon!

I’m incredibly honoured that you like the way I draw Lucanis. I always try my best to get him right, and it can certainly be challenging sometimes.. Faces are one of the hardest things for me to draw. I often redo them again and again until I’m more or less satisfied, so I don’t know if I can really provide a method, but i can definitely share how I approach it if you're interested!

First I gather references. If the ref has the same angle as the face i’m trying to draw, it’s easier, but my process is the same either way: I start by drawing the basic structure of a face (1), and then I add what I think are Lucanis’ most « iconic » features. In my opinion, I think his hairline, nose (if side profile), and the shape of his beard are what make him very identifiable. (2)

I try not to be too attached to his in-game model, focusing only on certain aspects because If I try and stick too closely to my reference to get everything right, it often ends up looking very stiff and I lose the expression of the face. So I pick my battles...

Once I’m done with this, i refine the line a bit more (3) and that’s when I start changing the facial structure to match his. (I add more eyebrow muscle to get his frown right, I adjust the bump of his nose, the angle of his chin and forehead if I need to, I adjust the hair..) I do this step only now because if I try to get the proportions of a character right from the start, I find it a bit more challenging. I have to go through the process of creating a « regular » face first, and then I pimp it, haha.

For the parts of his face that I want to focus on, I try to find reference points on where and how they sit on the face :

Widow’s peak hairline on top, which sits very tightly on the temples. Little bump at the root of the nose, which goes down very straight. Beard has a little « wave » shape after the smile line zone. Etc..

I keep in mind his almond-shaped eyes as well but I don’t really give it a special focus.. (Sometimes the eyes are hard enough as they are, I just draw them randomly, slap some lashes and call it a day..) If i get to the coloring part, I like to add his bottom eyelashes and his signature dark cirlces, and that’s about it.

Here I only tried to get his beard and hair right, the rest was not my focus (for accuracy I mean). I don't know if this will be of any help to you anon, but in any case, good luck with your own art! And thank you again because you gave me a great excuse to draw a portrait of him haha!

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Part of that soccer meme I did earlier. I don't like the end result (because I can't color), but I do like how these turned out.

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For the Love of Treviso

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Crypt baby Ingellvar

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Family things.

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My favorite sort of OCs are the ones who have little regard for what I have planned for them.