Dessiner une sorcière SEXY dans un univers celtique : Trouver les idées de design

Hi, today I have the pleasure of showing you how I created a new character for my Celtic fantasy universe who will be the bad witch, she is the main antagonist of my story she will be rather sexy, seductive, but especially sly and she will fight against the main characters of my story so we have the druid warrior who is the hero's mentor this witch as an inspiration from the beginning, what I know for example, Saruman, you know, he is the big bad guy who manipulates the story in the shadows but you also have Melisandre who is a rather manipulative woman who manipulates some of the main characters of the Game of Thrones series and also as an aesthetic, what I like a lot is Maleficent whose costume has a very dynamic design that I like a lot but I have a big problem and I think it's the biggest challenge I'm going to have is that you know how to adapt this aesthetic of Maleficent in a Celtic universe where we have a little bit old clothes a little bit not very colorful either, you know, with very soft clothes with shoes that are barely galoshes, which are very very very ugly what I'm going to try is to draw a rather extravagant character in a Celtic universe so I'm going to show you how I'm going to do the sketches, how I'm going to find the ideas and how to generate lots of ideas to find the right one so it's a very interesting video for you if you already lack creativity or ideas to draw your characters To start, especially before drawing, I spent a lot of time doing reference searches I have like 140 images and there I did the sorting so in particular here, what I like a lot is this picture of a series called Britannia so here you see what I love above all, it's the feathers here that make its cape why feathers? It's because my witch is represented by a crow that is to say that she has the power to control crows, she has the power to transform into a crow or the power to fly, I'm not sure yet, we'll see design in relation to that why crow? It's because you see the Celtic druid, the nice side, he is represented by a boar and that's why we have a confrontation, boar, crow in my story so it really allows the viewer to understand the difference between these two characters There is also something that is interesting, we find a lot of inspiration in the fashion design you see the feathers are used a lot in the clothes, even here, even if it's not feathers it's more of a cover here but it should be feathers instead so it's very interesting, even here I find it very interesting, it's also in the series Britannia what I especially like is the use of feathers here after her costume, I don't really like it, it looks like a costume made of recycling tires it's horrible but visually it works super well after I also went to see the side of the Romans you know in the story it's a witch who is in conflict with the Romans who are invading the Celts in their territory so we're going to say that in a way she can wear Roman clothes and that she has Celtic magic you see it's a mixture of Roman and Celtic together so it's a little challenge to merge between the two cultures so here you know what I really like is the dress that really highlights the woman's body here but there are also things that are rather unstructured here that could also be feathers of the witch I also went to see in the fantasy, I really like the feathered shoulders here even here the top of the body with feathers I really like that too but more at the level of the dress here and I find that when we see the legs here I find it rather sexy the design but I think I'm going to add a little decolletage to make it a little sexier for example here what I like a lot, what I find very sexy is especially at the level of the silhouette which makes a character design sexy then what I found which is very interesting is this symbol called Triquetra you know when I see this symbol it immediately reminds me of the series Charmed so let's say in the collective unconscious when you see this symbol there you immediately think of a witch which means that it really represents my witch and what is also interesting is that the wild druid is represented by a triskel it's a Celtic symbol and so we have a confrontation Triskel, Triquetra which is also Celtic it really helps the viewer to understand who is good and who is bad then to be a little more precise here I went to see at the level of the clothes a little more unstructured here it makes me think of Daenerys' dress in Game of Thrones so here it's very pretty but after it's quite transparent anyway so it should be done a little bit like this violinist she is very famous on YouTube, she makes very good compositions so here you see we make a combination of a over-dress, I don't know what it's called this kind of tunic on, under, clothes, I don't know, to see how I'm going to adapt that there is also something that I find very interesting here, it's not the neckline but it's especially here you see, I find it super good to have a dress with two different pieces so here you see we have the main dress so here which hides the breasts but also which hides the sides and also we have a kind of veil that hides the front I find it super good to have two pieces it's very used in the world of fantasy you'll see, I'll show you with references when I'm going to draw my character I also went to see mushrooms and flowers why is that? it's because when you do design it's always interesting to go and see in the abstract forms and for example you see this peak shape, this kind of cone with small peaks it could be a kind of shoulder with feathers, you see, I don't know this shape of a petal, it could be the shape of the folds of the dress it allows you to make shapes that you have never seen elsewhere but also what is interesting with mushrooms is that it is also part of the powers of my witch that is to say, she has a spell that allows her to transform the population into a kind of mushroom zombie it's a bit like the infected from last of us, not very original I know but I wanted to put zombies in this story so you have to imagine, it's not a drawing of me, it's an inspiration from the start we will have zombies with spears, shields, something like that I won't say more, I haven't developed it yet but it will be in another video, I will show you how I would make the zombies so if you are interested in seeing how we design zombies subscribe to see the rest here, as you can see, I have a lot of ideas, I think I have enough to draw my characters so from these ideas, Celts, Romans, gothic, mushrooms we will finally be able to start drawing I hope I will succeed because it's very hard to mix cultures especially to merge a witch who wears Roman clothes for example with Celtic magic, something like that I don't know what it's going to be like, but we're going to give it a try anyway here are some characters already drawn, you see, it's drawn in a very very light way I don't complicate my life, I don't try to be beautiful and as you can see, I'm also looking for references what I'm trying to do is to find very pretty shapes you know, here, the problem is that we have Celts who have very ugly shoes so I'm going to make an exception, I went to see the sandals a little more modern so I copied for my character then what is hard is that here I make 15 sketches it means that I'm going to fuel a mental level, a creative energy level I'm going to let go of everything to make my character it's because often we tend to do 2-3 drawings and we stop there but we never try to draw a lot, test the shapes even if I redraw, redraw the same thing but you will see that there are slight variations but on 10 drawings with slight variations you will see that there is a contrast between the first and the last drawing and this is where you develop your creativity to the fullest, your creative energy to the fullest it's a bit like muscles, that is to say that to make a muscle grow you have to break the muscle, that is to say to carry heavier loads and here the drawing, that's why I force myself to draw 15 characters and not 2, 3, 4, 15 characters but in a slightly detached way, you see, with a very ugly line because the ugly line allows you to free your creativity you see, I'm not trying to have a perfect drawing it's just making drawings, not thinking too much but above all, based on the references and it is by combining these ideas that you will find the right idea by trying several different shapes so here, you know, it's also the start I've only done 5 drawings, I'm not yet satisfied I don't know exactly what I want yet but here, we try, we try, we try and I hope as this character develops that I will find the first shapes that will satisfy me So here are my 3 drawings for now I still have a lot to do but here I tried several different shapes so here we have a witch with a rather extravagant top with a Roman base with a kind of tunic here that hides her body a little but I find it a little too naked for now it's not what I wanted, it's a little too much here I find it fits perfectly what I want but I find that the silhouette doesn't work very well because you see here I got some references from my first ideas it works pretty well but I'm not very good we also have the shoulders here I like that a lot, I reused these ideas but to see it also depends because I want to put crows on his shoulder here so we will also see a lot of details here it's a big problem too I imagine my character as in a video game or in a comic and here the shoulders are a little too random with feathers that go in all directions it can be very problematic in terms of drawing imagine if it's a comic, we're going to draw feathers every time it can be complicated here I find it a little warrior with the little ring here on the head what I like a lot it makes a proud sister who is very mobile whereas here she doesn't move too much she lacks dexterity because here we have a dress that prevents her from moving a little or maybe it's her side a little wide of the shoulders and a little wide of the hips I think it comes from there whereas here we have a much thinner outline in terms of anatomy I think it's interesting to start on this kind of rather thin body here are the first three shapes from there I'm not too satisfied yet I find it lacks shape there are no shapes that interest me yet so we will continue I hope I will find after having sketched the first three sketches I went to see other references to try to deepen my idea at the level of the dress of this witch I was mostly trying to find something rather sexy so I went on Etsy what I like is that we have artisanal on this site and it's great as a place to find references of clothes for your characters especially if it's women then I tried a new drawing with a top with bird's wings and a bottom with a mix of fantasy which I really like fantasy with shapes that are rather torn very dynamic in terms of drawing then here I try something a little more veiled I like to keep this side where we see the leg without having it too much to make the side a little sexier it's like the right length of a skirt it's neither too long nor too short you have to try to find the same thing for this character if it's too short, it's too bold if it's too long, it's not interesting to see here too, I started to break the silhouette to position myself on the body that I draw below but really to bring out the volumes so here for example at the top we have shoulders but also I add here I don't know what it's called ribbons that really allow to give shape to the silhouette to the outline of the character to break a little more the shape which gives a much more dynamic side and I really like this drawing then I also try to have more shape here for example here I try several things don't hesitate, when you start to draw and you see that it doesn't work stop it and erase it and make a new drawing here I try a dress a little more traditional basic, a little prestige, Celtic as if it were a bourgeois or a noble but I'm not a fan either because here it's too much basic design it could be good in a film because we would see the real side of the thing but here we are mostly in the illustration in the design and that's why here we have a design which is a little too flat even here, you see I had to add, let's say, ribbons and shoulders in feathers so that it is much more so that we have a silhouette a little more visible and also I added horns to see I'm not a fan apparently it's much more the people I showed it to but I think it was too basic it's too basic because all the witches have horns I'm not a fan we'll see here too, I'm not a fan but hey, we're getting to the end I can't take it anymore I have no idea I think it's the penultimate silhouette that I had to draw and really from there you have no idea you try things and you see I'm not a fan because in terms of detail it's too flat there are feathers everywhere and it doesn't look like anything even if I tried to try something I tried to try a very wild witch who wears 100% feathers and the problem is that we are no longer on the starting pitch with a witch which is rather sexy, seductive so here we are rather on let's say a tribal witch who has lived all her life in the forest finally, the last silhouette it inspired me I was inspired by a character Corazon or rather another character at the beginning it's this character from One Piece I'm also inspired by mangas it's just to get an idea and there I thought it would be interesting to add a little more material at the level of clothing add some crows even if I'm not going to use them for now the crows but you see just with the arms with the feathers it works really well I think and I really like this design the last design which is not bad here are all the drawings I've had enough of them from the last three I've had enough of them I couldn't take it anymore I had no idea my brain almost burned so here there are a lot of drawings which are very interesting what I like the most it's the drawings where the silhouettes stand out the most after that it's not totally finished there is still one last step which is the most important for me we're going to put it in mass a little bit like the silhouette behind the body behind but it's the whole of the drawing so here for now my favorites are those which are the most dynamic at the moment with hair like that which I like a lot hair in feathers it looks a bit like Dragon Ball but I think it works really well it's quite dynamic there is also this silhouette which I like a lot I don't know what it's going to look like when I'm going to do the whole silhouette but here I have the impression that it's a witch rather in horror with this pose a bit like a zombie with the legs retracted it's a bit frustrated and it fits really well you see this one I like a lot but with the horns we'll see that later but I find it a bit too too classic and this one I like a lot too but I'm not sure it's going to look good when I put it in silhouette so we'll see so here you see here the drawing it's not perfect but I think the drawing is rather badly drawn it was drawn quickly to promote creativity as I told you now we're going to clarify the line we're going to put it clean so here we go into a part that I find a little bit boring to do it's just line retouching and clarify his drawing but that's where which is the most pleasant I find because you just have to retouch the lines and your drawing the shapes of your character they reveal themselves like that you see here I made a stylish drawing here I don't think it's very good but you'll see as I draw that I'm going to fill in silhouette like that with big black masses and lighter grays it really allows you to see your design as basic as possible and to see right away if ah this design can please me so that I give myself the time in the next 5-10 days to finalize it 100% that is to say with a drawing much more detailed with an anatomy a little more precise and with a design and drawn accessories in a very precise way so there it will be in the next video so here sign up if you want to see how I'm going to finish this character there too what's interesting is that you also see the shapes especially the language of the shapes that you will use to draw the line of your character the language of the shapes I don't talk about it too much here but if you want to know more I explain the principles in my private emails these are small courses that I send there are 12 that I send in your mail box so to sign up to these emails you just have to click on the link in the description and enter your email to receive them what is super good also with the method of the silhouette that I use in front of you is that we also have a very good vision of the distribution of details so you see we have big masses small masses small details we have a whole balance of drawings with the gaps with the skin of the witch that really allows me to understand why my design works why it doesn't work which really allows me to favor the choice of the drawing that I will detail later to be sure and certain that my idea will be credible from the beginning to the end so here you see we make a lot of proposals and it's really good to do that because you simplify the process at each step and I see too often you know people they tend to spend 10-20 hours on a drawing and there they start to regret to have spent time on it because they didn't plan the design of their character they go a little bit improvised which means that in fact they never finish a drawing and each time they give up because they get to something that doesn't satisfy them enough to make their character so you see I take a lot of time at the beginning to find the right idea to find the right references to pay attention to the design the language of shapes which I remind you is very very important and which allows me to really make sure that I'm going to like it that I'm going to have fun on the future drawing of my character so here it's interesting it's that you see here sometimes when I make the silhouette and that I block on the design anyway on this design I feel that I block on it it means that it's not a good sign you see it means that it's a design that I'm going to put aside and it's very interesting because it's very important to have designs that you're going to throw away and the designs that you want to keep because the number in fact to have a lot of designs it allows you to compare and the comparison it works only as at least two designs you see it's the theory of one that is when you have a single choice it means it's a bad sign you see for example in a dictatorship you often have a single political party and that's not a very good sign either it's like in design the more diversity you have the more choices you'll have the more it will allow you to find what suits you best obviously the opposite the opposite problem is when you have too many choices when you have too many choices it's hard to choose but we'll talk about that after the silhouettes you see here I came across a silhouette that interests me a lot with lines curves everywhere that are super dynamic it's super cool here I'm on a witch you see here it's a little basic this witch I'm not a big fan but it has a side that is rather seductive you see with her dress with her little neckline which is quite visible it's classy it's sensual then here she's a little bit too angry I find with the shadows of the eyes that I drew but the problem here you see when you put on a silhouette you realize that it's a little flat you see there's just her head with the feathers that work but the rest of the body it's too banal it's a little it's too flat it's a little it's not quite there's not enough of shape on the silhouette unlike the others here the same on this one it's why this one I don't think I'm going to keep it I know that it respects very well the Celtics but you see the design it's too flat there's not enough shape coming out of the silhouette it doesn't work at all And then towards the end, what I like is to add a little bit of silhouettes by erasing and adding things. There, I also try to add white lines to, let's say, make up the design a little bit, but it's not very interesting. Well, after, don't hesitate to try things. I try and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work and too bad, it doesn't matter. Here, I finally finished all my silhouettes, it took time, it's still three, four days of work. It's a lot of work, but at least it allows me to be sure, as I told you, to find the right shape for my witch. And what's interesting to do and very important is that when you draw a character, it's always interesting to write your pitch. So here, what I do is that I re-read the pitch that I wrote to draw this character. Because you know, the most important thing when you create your characters is to never forget your initial idea. That is to say that your initial idea, when you develop it, you can lose track. Because in the end, you have a character that doesn't look like anything, that doesn't tell a story and that makes you think of nothing at all. So it's very interesting and very important to re-read the pitch. This will allow me to make the choice. From these choices, I found myself with only five choices that I'm going to wait a few days to choose. So in fact, in the next video, I'm going to choose the right character. So it would be interesting to have your opinion. You will tell me in the comments which is your favorite silhouette. You see here, it's the five silhouettes that I extracted from the 15 silhouettes. So what I love about this silhouette is that we have a witch who is rather warlike. I have the impression that it's the four things. With her thighs that are rather muscular. I see her well with super powers where she can throw wind blows here. I should put more feathers here, a little more exaggerated. I like this silhouette a lot because we have a dynamic effect. I feel like it's a fox. It looks like she can slide a little between the trees. She can fly in the shade, something like that. Here, I find it a little too classic. It looks a little bit demonic with the horns like that. But after that, these horns were based on mushrooms. So you'll have to see. And I know that when I showed this to people, it was this silhouette that they preferred the most. After that, I admit, this is my favorite with this one for now. I'm really hesitating between these five. But I don't think I'm going to go with this one because I find it too banal. But to see, I could get this idea and mix it up. That's what's good. The next step is to identify what you like. Gather these elements and of course stay consistent. There is this one that I like a lot. And this one too, I like it a lot. But there is better. So I'm not very sure. I prefer to wait a few days before making my decision. So the next step would be to choose a few silhouettes. To make a final silhouette. And then from this final silhouette, we will draw the final character. So in the next video, I'm going to develop this character again. So if you're interested in character development, subscribe to this channel for the rest. Because I'm going to create a lot of characters. There are also lesbians. There are also secondary characters. There are also a lot of characters that I'm going to show on this channel. To illustrate my Celtic fantasy universe with mushroom zombies. And wild boar druids. Witches. Raven witches. And Romans. Romans. And Romans in red who are going to hit Celtics. So if you're interested, subscribe to this channel. So I'll see you next time. Bye.