Suho through the Eras - You've worked hard :blue_heart: | EA Artists

:blue_heart: Hi hi~ :blue_heart:

Sooo to celebrate 7 years with EXO the EA Artists Club is hosting the EA Artists Event! The theme for it was:

"Dear EXO, you've worked hard"

It was a bit difficult to come up with something for me but eventually I decided on drawing Suho - I realized I'd never actually drawn a proper fanart of him :flushed:

Connecting to the theme I decided to draw Suho from all eras side by side. They've shown us so many different songs and concepts over the years and Suho has been there to lead the as well as EXO-L through each and every one :two_hearts:

So I thought I'd make a fanart like this to look back on all the he's given the and the fans :revolving_hearts:

References

In order to keep it actually doable I limited it to all the major comeback eras minus repackages, so that left me with MAMA, XOXO (Wolf), Overdose, Exodus (Call Me Baby), Ex'act (I went with Monster), The War (KoKoBop) and DMUMT (Tempo)!

I decided to use these looks from the MVs as references:

Work In Progress

To start it off I sketched everything out in pencil!

About Lineart

For this month's event all of the club decided to include a little "tutorial" in their blogs, and I decided to talk a bit about lineart :')

Keep in mind that everything I say is based on my experiences and more or less relies on my own style~

First of all, when to do the lineart? Most people's first instinct will be do do the lineart immediately after sketching, which makes sense since you'll probably want to erase the pencil before colouring.

However, you have to keep in mind what your colouring might to do the lineart! I'm using water-based markers for this drawing that will smudge the lineart if it's too thick, so I started by just doing a quick thin outline of everything with a 0.3 liner.

Also, very important: Don't attempt to do lineart on a shaky af surface. Like a table on a moving train. Bad idea :see_no_evil:

You'd think that's kinda obvious but for some reason my brain thought it would be fine anyways so uhmmm yea the beginnings are a bit messy :sweat_smile:

Anyways, next I did the colouring!

After that I finished up the lineart. Firstly I used a thin 0.05 fine liner to add some parallel shading.

Additionally I traced the more prominent lines with a 0.5 liner and the lines on the very outside with a 0.8 liner! This helps make details more visible on the coloured areas and makes the whole thing "pop" a bit if that makes sense :sweat_smile: :joy:

And with that I was done!

Wellll.... Ngl I'm a bit annoyed that none of them really look like Suho :sweat_smile: His face is kist really hard :sob: :joy:

But overall I still think it turned out kinda cool, after all you can tell from the styles that it's him~

And that's it already for my blog then! Hope you enjoyed and thanks for reading :two_hearts: :blush:

:revolving_hearts: Until Next Time~ :revolving_hearts:

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