#also thw first swt of nsr stuff was for an oc au I did last year w a friend

[staryarn]

I love how in your recent boss icon art, you replicated the art style of NSR! Do you have any tips?👀

I will say I've tried to do this once before (two different methods) and my most recent one hits the mark while my first attempt wasn't exactly there. Same goes for me mimicking the style in general.

In the first ones I was in my style in my comfort zone only doing things I've done before. In the second ones (the nsr au ones) I've experimented more with the way I stylized things or with how I drew them. These are only a year apart and I haven't been drawing any other nsr stuff inbetween. So it's really just a matter of method.

For the icons I seperated each component by layer (Hair , face, hat, etc) and layered them onto of one another as if they were seperate sheets of paper (face under the hair and the hair under the hat. Coat goes above face / neck. So a very good layered effect)

They icons use soft gradients and some cell shading (sparingly so)

And references will be your key. I had to go inbetween so many icon refs to figure out if it was right and even at the end I changed some things (mostly elesa's face but I had to fix some stuff on volo too).

That and the nsr icons are entirely lineless! So what I did was get the general silhouette down and then work on seperate parts of the icon until it formed into one. Vs my usual style of lineart and then colors. It's also very uh,, shaped ,, so any sort of polyline tool will be your friend (or just freeline it like I did)