#metal artstyle

[batwedgies]

My evil artstyle challenge from February!

Top was my “Evil” Artstyle, the bottom is my actual artstyle. A fun challenge.

I can’t believe i never posted this here?!?

[om0000]

@milane-zzz-o theyre matching now

[lindsayfrazerdraws]

An attempt to channel Yoji Shinkawa's signature style with W from Arknights

[exiled-on-mainline]

i like this page a lot. he looks like a bug

from metal gear solid (2005) #2

[puyonlilah]

• pew pew

Get em x, GET EM!

[lelee-tdn]

Band au Gyutaro 🫣

[napolka]

I'm in love with @bumblebeescottage's Rockstar AU...

Would you go to Murat's glam rock concert?

[omg-gojo]

Papa Lee bear may be fluffy but don't mess up with his cubs, lady. He got that stare from kakashi... and 2 years of ANBU missions. Shinki is really impressed, Metal is not surprised at all.

[cherry-berry-cola]

Oh hey, Cool new ar- OOFGHAGHOGJBF

[nighthallow87]

Made a pillbug self insert for comedic effect.

Credit to @serialbxwl for creating this au🤎

[sailordingus]

for context to my last post: i have a folder in my art folder dedicated SPECIFICALLY to wips of stuff like this

and finally, my favorite

[crafty705]

Latte art would baffle him methinks

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Sketch and simpler bkg below cut:

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[billwasnot]

hi bill !

i was just wondering if you could offer some tips about how you made your alnst oc ? ( like transferring it onto para’s base and such )

im trying to draw my own oc out, but im heavily struggling with how to actually start and execute what i want to be on the profile

guidance from you would be very helpful ! your own profile looks like that of an actual character !

thank you if you answer this ! have a wonderful rest of your day bill <3

Hiii Apri

Sorry for the late reply!

So. The thing is, I didn't... really use Para's base. However I thought about it, and since Para's bases offer a general silhouette without facial features, I could offer some help in analyzing the general style of ALNST portrait designs, thus creating guidelines

So. Here I stretched every ALNST character's face (the ones that have portraits, I mean) over a basic oval shape to create some standard that can be later modified to fit any other facial shape you'd like.

Here, you can see some common traits already:

The features are situated pretty low on the face, with the eyebrows, as the highest part, being located roughly at the mid-point vertically

There's 3 basic nose shapes: line (Mizi, Acorn), teardrop (Sua, Hyuna, Tiya, Durian) and side triangle (Till, Ivan Luka)

Nose and lips are located close to the center of bottom-middle quadrant

There's a ton of variation in eye shape and size (Ivan's are the smallest and Mizi's the largest. Holy shit her eyes are huge.) All of them are located either at the very bottom of the middle row, or simultaneously in middle and bottom rows

There's at least one eyelid line right under the eyebrows, but some characters have too, the second one being right over the eyelahes. Mono- vs. double-lid differentiation?

Ears are located at approximately the same level as eyes, and heavily vary in size as well

All mouths (except Durian's) are drawn with a break in the line. Here I depicted them all in the middle, but that's bc I used mirror tool. In general, these breaks can be off to the side as well

(By the way, I applied the same process to my sona and found out that its eyes are too high. I planned to redo it a bit regardless, bht now I have a good reason to! So thanks for giving me a reason to study this artyle!)

And here are some thoughts on the style in general:

The lines are very free floving, varied in veight, sketchy even. The brush was probably textured, too. That's what was putting me off about my own profile, btw, the lines felt way too clean.

Shadows are done a bit darker and brighter than the base color. They're mostly located around neck and hair, though some characters (Hyuna in particular) have sgading on their faces to indicate prominent features

Portraits used in profiles have a light-blue filter applied over them. Probably an addition layer at partial opacity, or something.

But, tbh, when in doubt, just slap an existing character portrait under your own and tweak your drawing until it looks right

Hope this helps at least a little!

[tonitart]

Whenever I read "knives is a babygirl" or "meryl is a girlboss" my brain takes a while to load

[svrlobotony]

[artichow]

commission for @chalkchelcee of xheir oc Agu!!

you can commission me on my ko-fi page if you're interested!