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How difficult is it to draw in Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure art style?
This video analyzes the art style of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and explores the difficulty by drawing it directly. It identifies the characteristics of the art style, shares difficulties and tips in the acquisition process, and shows the process of reinterpreting it in its own style.
1. 🎨 JoJo Art Style Challenge: Setting Goals and Learning Methods
- ✅ Explains the motivation and goals for learning the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure art style.
- ✅ Aims to improve skills beyond simply copying, with the goal of being able to draw with 75% accuracy without reference materials.
- ✅ As a learning method, first acknowledge that you know nothing and refer to materials used by others.
- ✅ Choose the method that suits you best, whether it's watching tutorials or being directly exposed to drawings.
00:00 - 01:34
1. 🎨 JoJo Art Style Challenge: Setting Goals and Learning Methods
- ✅ Explains the motivation and goals for learning the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure art style.
- ✅ Aims to improve skills beyond simply copying, with the goal of being able to draw with 75% accuracy without reference materials.
- ✅ As a learning method, first acknowledge that you know nothing and refer to materials used by others.
- ✅ Choose the method that suits you best, whether it's watching tutorials or being directly exposed to drawings.
01:35 - 02:30
2. ✍️ Exploring Information and Identifying Key Elements for Learning the JoJo Art Style
- ✅ Obtain information from the JoJo drawing community and utilize recommended playlists.
- ✅ Learn how to express facial shadows and create JoJo's unique eyes through video tutorials.
- ✅ Identify the characteristics of the JoJo art style, such as the expression of the nose line and the exaggerated shape of the ears.
02:31 - 04:56
3. 👁️ JoJo Art Style Analysis: Eyelid Expression and Shading Tips
- ✅ Emphasizes that simplifying the shape of the eyelids in the JoJo art style is an important factor in creating the anime style.
- ✅ Clearly defines the definition of the eyelid, identifies the position to draw eyeliner, and adds highlights.
- ✅ Suggests tips for making the face contour clear by adding shading to the bridge of the nose and the arc of the eye.
04:57 - 06:23
4. 🧑🎨 Attempting to Add Realistic Elements to the JoJo Art Style
- ✅ Explores how to maintain the unique exaggerated style while adding realistic elements such as eyelids to the JoJo art style.
- ✅ Tries to build their own style by referring to various characters such as the shape of the nose, the shape of the eyes, and shading techniques.
- ✅ Explores the possibility of applying by analyzing the eye shapes of various characters such as George, Dabi, and Eluso.
- ✅ Considers using hatching techniques to express shading.
06:24 - 07:58
5. 🤔 Difficulties in Imitating the JoJo Art Style and Directions for Improvement
- ✅ Recognizes that the JoJo style is not clearly revealed in the current drawing and mentions that it can be improved through cel shading.
- ✅ Acknowledges the fear of shading and pledges to make efforts to overcome it.
- ✅ Attempts to simplify eye wrinkles and add JoJo-style eyelashes to bring out the characteristics.
- ✅ Improves the drawing through various attempts such as expressing hair using cloud brushes.
07:59 - 09:16
6. 🎨 Researching JoJo Anime Style Shading Methods
- ✅ Looks for related videos to research shading methods in the JoJo anime style.
- ✅ Identifies that techniques such as cel shading, airbrushing, adding shadows, midtone airbrushing, and Gaussian blur are used.
09:17 - 11:20
7. 📐 JoJo Style Pose Directing Tips and Character Design Ideas
- ✅ Introduces tips for using inverted triangles to easily create JoJo-style poses.
- ✅ Explains how to express movement lines using the distance between the shoulder and the head.
- ✅ Emphasizes the importance of accurately drawing human proportions based on anatomical knowledge.
- ✅ Develops character designs by drawing inspiration from various elements such as albums and songs.
11:21 - 12:53
8. ⛰️ Difficulties in the JoJo Art Style Challenge and Future Tasks
- ✅ Expresses difficulties in selecting color palettes and shading.
- ✅ Feels that drawing skills have improved through the JoJo art style challenge, but recognizes the need to improve proficiency in other elements such as color, light, and shading.
- ✅ Emphasizes that Araki Hirohiko's drawing style was created over a long period of time, so continuous effort is required.
12:54 - 15:59
9. 💪 The Importance of Continuous Effort and Various Attempts
- ✅ Emphasizes that it is important to express as much as possible in your own style, even if you cannot implement the perfect JoJo style.
- ✅ Says that you should constantly test and evaluate yourself to improve your drawing skills.
- ✅ Advises that trying various styles as well as the JoJo style will help improve your drawing skills.
- ✅ Explains the importance of mastering various fields, just like a basketball player refers to players in various positions to become a basketball player, through analogies.