Until the manga support illustrations are made, the full version of the making, how can the poses of the people and the arrangement of the objects be devised to make the illustration more attractive?

While continuing to place orders with various artists and illustrators for “supporting illustrations” for advertising and publicity of manga serialized on GIGAZINE, `` Improved the completeness of the illustration itself, and even first-time people are interested in the work “What kind of ingenuity should I do to make it an illustration that I can have with me?” Became a challenge. As a result, instead of the ambiguous and abstract correction instructions such as 'In such an atmosphere', we think that specific and grounded correction instructions are necessary, and inviting the professionals of the road as a checker to pursue a quality improvement I decided to work together. In this case, the theme was clear and attractive at the time of rough, so adjust the poses, detailed drawing, and object layout that convey the charm of the illustration. It was decided.
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First, it was drawn as a rough draft. In addition to the figure of one of the main characters, Lu, lying down holding Mel's summoned beast, Voyanai, who is the “sister”, the screen is filled with cushions, and there are many impressions.

In this rough, correction instructions were added for three main points: “details of people / objects”, “person poses”, and “avoid monotonous composition”. First, for “details of people / objects”, I instructed to draw more accurately the parts that were difficult to understand, such as body lines and cushion shapes, even though they were “rough”. In addition, the camera was too close to draw a pose that would throw the body on the bed and lie down, so the overall composition was drawn.

Regarding the second `` person's pose '', the biggest correction was made, and it is difficult to understand the shape of the held Voyanoi as it has a difficult and interesting composition of hugging a pillow that is about the height of the character and sleeping It was necessary to correct the sense of discomfort in the composition, such as the shape of the lower half of the body that sandwiched the body pillow looked out of shape. Therefore, as shown by the dotted line in the image, in addition to making the shape of the Vojanoi warp, and making the face and body a little more leaning so that you can better see that it is snuggling up to the body pillow, the entire pose is Reviewed.

As for the third `` Avoid monotonous composition '', if the character's face and the center of the pose are parallel to the vertical and horizontal crosshairs as shown in the image, it will appear as a monotonous composition That. If you remove it from the crosshairs, the composition will be better.

Rough part 2 reflecting the above corrections. Instead of reducing the number of cushions that were almost full-body by pulling the camera and giving a messy impression, other characters of Lou drawn in the main are newly placed as stuffed animals.

Rough part 2 has two corrections: the overall composition and the fine points. The following image is a character cut and pasted from the rough, tilted, and the part of `` Avoid the composition that is parallel to the cross line is monotonous '' that was instructed at the time of the rough 1 may be moved more drastically something like. Normally, the human body has a strong image of going down from the head to the feet, so even when sleeping right next to it, it tends to give an uneasy impression of “falling downward”. In order to avoid it, composition that heads diagonally upward is better. Also, if the object is cut at the corners of the screen, the composition will be lost.

Regarding the second fine point, it is particularly important how to draw the hair. The cluttering and throwing clutter is attractive, but it seems to repeat the same curve, so it must be firmly and intentionally random. It is also important to draw “hands” that characterize the characters as much as facial expressions, and for the same reason, at least one of them should have “foot tips” in the screen. The more detailed part, the more attractive the illustration can be made by adding a little bit to the ground contact surface between the feet and the bed.

Rough part 3 completed in this way is as follows. Make the thrown-up hair more messy, create a `` depth '' like a pillow in the back of the stuffed toy, make it an interesting composition, strengthen the soft impression on the ground contact surface with the bed A number of ideas have been added to bring out the theme and charm of illustrations.

Left is rough 2 before correction, and right is rough 3 after correction. You can see that the overall impression has changed greatly in the details.

Line drawing process. It is distinctive that the cream color is drawn with magenta lines on the back.

Coloring process. The hair, clothes, and sheets were close to each other, so the painting proceeded with fine adjustments.

Illustration 1 From here, further corrections will be made focusing on the colors and effects that could not be confirmed at the rough point.

First of all, the “spreading hair”, which is particularly impressive in illustrations, is much heavier and heavier than the impression at the rough time, so it is recommended to make it lighter. In addition, it is also important to put the illustrations together so that the highlights to give the voluminous texture are too strong and catch the eye. In addition, fine adjustments such as how to draw arms and hands are indispensable.

A clean copy based on the above.

Since the adjusted hair is still voluminous, it should be drawn as rough or line drawing. Re-adjust the balance between the length from the shoulder to the elbow and the length from the elbow to the wrist. Also added as a final adjustment to avoid the background color of the sheets and the color of the character's clothes being too similar.

The final completed illustration is as follows.

The left is the first clean copy, and the right is the final completed illustration.

The making with comments from author BerryVerrine can be seen in the following article.

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