Saturday, July 20, 2013

Art Style Research- Chibi Style

I decided to do Chibi art style for my Competition,Festival, Exhibition's project 2. I am more comfortable in my this art style as I always frequently draw chibi character.
"Chibi (ちび or チビ) is a Japanese slang word meaning "short person" or "small child." The word has gained currency amongst fans of manga and anime. Its meaning is of someone or some animal that is small. It can be translated as "little," but is not used the same way as chiisana [小さな] (tiny, small, little in Japanese) but rather cute. In English-speaking anime and manga fandom (otaku), the term chibi has mostly been conflated with the "super deformed" style of drawing characters with oversized heads or it can be used to describe child versions of characters.Chibi style is usually used in depicting scenes which are cute and/or humorous, and it is extremely rare for it to be used for an entire anime series."

I was influence by this anime that I use to watch back few years ago.
This is my strongest style and most comfortable in drawing. Bottom are my drawing are my art style.
However, after the drawing, I having hard time to make into digitize image in Adobe Illustrator. The drawing will not feel the same like how I draw. Bottom image is the example of my style convert into digital. The part of the digital does not match the drawing because I was experimenting it with simple tools. At the end of my conclusion, it is how I use my pen tool to accurately trace back my work and also depending on the colors.



Research

Chibi Shiro is Not Amused by Chibi--Shiro 
In this art style, specially the color is simple with a bit of gradient and thickness of the line is very consistence. There is no tine and thick lines.

Chibi Machii by Yamio
I like the way of the color combination. Although the dark purple is a dull color but with the mixture of the gradient and shading makes the different. It has the feeling of dreamy kind. However, time consume and also it is not consistence with the vector character.

Another In Canada by CookieHideki
A vector art which is close and similar to what I am doing. Therefore, this is part of my art style I want to put in, but there is difference between my animal character that they had hard thick and thin lines and also the shades are quite different from here.

Chibi USXUK by Ivoryness
In this style, there is water color texture and outlines with "stitching" as outline and a little bit of sketching. I like the way specially the heart shape it is "sketchy" and the "stitching" part as an outline of the character rather than just solid hard lines with different thickness. However same issue is consistency to my vector character.

Mighty Boosh Character Design by SirLemoncurd
In this character design, there is no outline but the part I like is the curls this artist did. The proportion of the character is very much different from the rest. However, again factor as the rest that, there is not consistency at all.

Vector Characters by Pixelflakes
In this character design, this artist is design the animal in simple way. Proportion of the animal and clowns are very random.
Chibi FireNation Children by Kelly 1412
I like the way how this artist way of the color. It use gradient and also shading. However, it is not consistence to my character design.

As A Conclusion,

I have to reconsider my animal character, which means the style to put the color. Either, I have to change my character line thickness or no line and all have to depend on the background image too

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