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How to Draw Excalibur Sonic from Sonic and the Black Knight

How to Draw Mew – Material List

  • A piece of paper
  • A pencil
  • A fine point black marker
  • A medium point black marker
  • An eraser
  • Some color pencils
    • black
    • blue
    • red
    • silver
    • golden yellow
  • A sticky roller (optional)

Reference Picture: https://imgur.com/Zi4F9aI https://imgur.com/UCYSNrR

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic – Step 1 – Basic Shape and Stick Figuring

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic - Step 1 - Basic Shape and Stick Figuring
  • Draw a circle for the head
  • Draw a cross on the circle as if it was a sphere
  • Draw an oval for the body
  • Draw two lines for the thighs
  • Draw two triangles for the feet
  • Draw two circles for the shoulders
  • Draw two circles for the fists
  • Draw stick arms and connect the shoulders with the fists
  • Draw two triangles for the ears
  • Draw two large triangles for the hair

Tip: Double check the locations of your shapes with the reference, use your pencil as a measuring tool to correct any proportion that is off.

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic – Step 2 – Refined Pencil Drawing 1st Pass

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic - Step 2 - Refine Pencil Drawing 1st Pass
  • Try to see each piece of armor as individual shapes
  • Compare the proportions of each shape and refine the shapes accordingly
  • Keep looking back and forth between the reference picture and your drawing

Tip: Draw lightly, use short and repetitive strokes, slowing draw heavier as you commit to more definitive lines.

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic – Step 3 – Refined Pencil Drawing 2nd Pass

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic - Step 3A - Refined Pencil Drawing 2nd Pass
  • Erase all lines lightly, DO NOT erase completely, enough to still see all lines

Tip: After you erase your drawing will look very dirty, but that is fine. After you trace with marker you can clean up all the pencil lines.

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic - Step 3B - Refined Pencil Drawing 2nd Pass
  • Continue refining until all lines are definitive

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic – Step 4 – Trace Pencil Lines with Marker

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic - Step 4 - Trace Pencil Lines with Marker
  • Trace the pencil lines with a black marker
  • Use an eraser to erase all the pencil lines so that only the marker lines remain

Tip 1: Rotate the paper to draw smoother lines

Tip 2: Break up long lines with shorter strokes, connect the short strokes to make line look continuous.

Tip 3: Push lighter on the maker to create thinner lines for small details.

Tip 4: hold down the paper with your other hand to avoid wrinkle and creases on paper

Tip 5: Use a sticky roller to clean up the eraser rubbings.

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic – Step 5 – Color in Midtone

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic - Step 5 - Color in Midtone
  • Keep in mind the direction of the lighting
  • Locate all highlight areas based on the lighting direction, leave highlight areas uncolored
  • Color the gems on the armor, and the cape red
  • Color the sword blue
  • Color the silver armor parts with silver
  • Color the rest of the armor with golden yellow

Tip: Color evenly, and follow direction of your strokes with the form of the object

Glossary – Midtone: the flat neutral color of an object without light and shadow

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic – Step 6 – Color in Shadow

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic - Step 6 - Color in Shadow
  • Color all shadow area with black, do not color too heavy, use light layers to slowing darken the shadow areas.
  • Reference the lighting direction, all shadow areas should be around the bottom right

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic – Step 7 – Thicken Profile Lines

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic - Step 7 - Thicken Profile Lines
  • Thicken the profile lines with a black marker

Glossary – Profile lines: The outer borderlines of a major form like head, body, arms and legs. Detail lines like pattern on the body and facial features are usually not consider profile lines.

How to Draw Excalibur Sonic – Complete

Excalibur Sonic - Complete

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