What is it? It is a commission for a friend of mine where I made a chibi version of her in her normal clothes and an alternative version with a mime outfit on.

Process:

• Prior to this commission, I never worked on chibi art before, but luckily I have a lot of experience style match so this wasn't a huge issue!

  
  

• I first started off with researching how chibis are drawn and making sure I got proportions to be right. Typically chibi heads are much bigger than the ones I drew, but this seemed to fit better with the style I had in mind

  
  

• Then, I went ahead and drew a basic vitruvian man but with chibi proportions so that I could model it proper

  
  

• To ensure that I got form down exactly, I went into blender, modelled and rigged a basic3D chibi model, and posed it in the proper poses I wanted (I have experience getting proper anatomy and form down, but this just sped up the process for me).

  
  

• I then worked on the line art, drawing a nude first (sfw version though) and then with clothes. I had to do a lot of research on lolitta fashion as although she wanted a normal set of mime clothes, I thought I'd spruce it up with some lolitta fashion stylings and she ended up really liking it.

  
  

• Colors and lighting always tend to make me nervous but this time around, I wanted to make something with a nice color pallette. In the end I thought the yellows and purples would look nice together and thankfully they did.

  
  

• Last touches were the highlights, shadows and I was done!