How to Draw Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto

How to Draw Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – Material List

A piece of paper
A pencil
A fine point black marker
A medium point black marker
An eraser
Some color pencils
- black
- gray
- yellow
- orange
- peach tan
- brown tan
A Sticky roller (optional)

Reference Picture: https://imgur.com/WTfnlv7

How to Draw Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – Step 1 – Stick Figuring

Draw a stick figure to pose the character
Draw a circle for the head, draw a cross on the head circle as if it was a sphere, the cross will help you locate the facial features later on
Draw a circle for the torso, draw a cross on the torso circle as if it was a sphere
Draw a circle for the hips, draw a cross on the hips circle as if it was a sphere
Draw two circle on the hip sphere to locate where the legs connect to the hips
Draw two lines for the thighs
Draw two circles for the knee joints
Draw two lines for the calves
Draw two two triangular shapes for the feet
Draw two rectangles for the feet
Locate where the shoulders connect to the torso, and draw two circles for the shoulder joints
Draw two lines for the upper arms
Draw two circles for the elbow joints
Draw two lines for the lower arms
Draw two circle for the fists, draw lines for the finger for open hand gestures
Draw two lines for the weapons

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.

Tip: Naruto’s two weapons are in a parallel position, find lines in the design that you can use to help you measure and figure out the placement and proportions.

How to Draw Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – Step 2 – Form Figuring

Rough in the shape of the hair
Add form to the body
Roughly mark out where the facial features are

Tip 1: Naruto is mostly clothed cover, so don’t stress out on trying to get any muscle anatomy for this form figure, instead get a feel of how much volume the clothing add on to the body.

How to Draw Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – Step 3 – Clothed Figure Drawing

Rough in all major clothing, including any accessory or weapons, including the floating spheres around Naruto.

Tip: Masashi Kishimoto avoid a lot of the misc fold on the cloth and only focused on the key folds, it is to minimize drawing time, but even though a lot of the folds are minimized, you can still see the subtle changes in form in this linework, notice how the pants line are not perfectly straight, it is made out of very slight curves that conforms to the anatomy of the leg.

How to Draw Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – Step 4 – Refined Pencil Drawing

Refine the drawing by locating the definitive lines amongst the rough sketch, draw the definitive lines darker
Draw in small details that were overlooked in the rough sketch
Keep refining until all lines are definitive

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

How to Draw Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – Step 5 – 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 Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – Step 6 – Color

Color the skin with peach tan
Color the shirt, gloves, inside the jacket, the weapons, and the floating spheres with gray
Color everything else with yellow
Double check with the reference picture

Color the shadow area of peach tan with brown tan
Color the shadow area of gray with black
Color the shadow area of yellow with orange

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

Tip: This design utilizes a special lighting, because the character himself is the light source, so we just have to leave the center area of every form uncolored, and the make the borders darker to give off a glowing effect, that’s why we’re combing the midtone step with the shadow step.

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

How to Draw Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – 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 Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto – Complete