Continuing The Backrooms Saga: Davout In The Poolrooms

Continuing the backrooms saga: Davout in the Poolrooms

Hi, I hope you don’t mind me asking this but. What’s your design process when drawing the marshals or any other historical figures?

P.S love your art btw

Hi @jerkybeef-179​ 💖 Thank you for your ask, and I am so sorry for taking so long to answer. Sure, you can ask me about anything. 

I am bad at explaining things, but I tried to summarize my process in these points: 

- The main thing I focus on when I draw is: the personality (just like when you design original characters). What are the personality traits I want to focus on? What are the things I like about this person? It could be the stereotypical idea of them, or something very specific you believe about that person. 

Example Lannes and Ney (since I always draw them); Lannes: lively, sharp, and boyish. Ney: Awkward, appear composed, and very emotional (of course, they are far more complex than this, but these are 3 main traits I started with) 

- Collect as many references as you can and study them. Notice the distinctive features of each person (could be large nose, droopy eyelids, face shape... Etc.). If you have a written description from biographies or memoirs this helps as well. Create a mental image of how they will look like in your style. make a quick sketch of it 

- Choose the references you like the most, study them and analyze them. Then change any details to fit your style.

here’s a quick example of how I work:

As I said before, all changes are made to fit my style and the personality of the figure I am drawing. but sometimes I change things because I want to XD like Bessières’ hair (I’ll not draw that awful hair 😂)

- Lastly, (and I am not very confident about this, but...), My final aim of drawing these real historical figures (or any other character) is to make people feel something, to tell about them without saying much! The more you love who you draw the better your result is, that’s why you should always draw what you love <3

I hope this helps ^^ 

* I like your art too, and your designs are very unique, please keep up the good work.

look at me go, Germany posting

the first picture is the most recent one, the last two were made last year for the 3rd of October, which is Germany's national holiday ^^

the second one are West and East Germany, whom are the same person just split apart in my AU, so they're not brothers. Maybe I'll get to talking about my AU a bit more on here if people are interested :D

You know what? Fuck it

No one's here to stop me

*posts*

I couldn’t resist!!!  but Berthier didn’t kill the boars, but saved the two other idiots XD

🇬🇧🤝🇫🇷

Story: On the day 🇬🇧🇫🇷 decided to form an alliance, they attended the ball as partners. So they join to the ball holding handsother and countries who saw it couldn't hide their surprise 🤯