He may look human, but Jirou Katou is actually Technobian! A robotic replica of his twin brother, Ichirou, Jirou is the most human of any machine in the world. So here's a realistic portrait of him.
I felt like drawing a realistic human since I hadn't done so in quite a while but with it being March of the Robots, I thought I would coincide with that by drawing Jirou Katou. This would also be the first time I realistically drew Asian features, since Jirou is Japanese.
There's only been a few times when I've drawn Droey's Draws characters realistically and I remember when doing so for Anne Natalie I didn't use any line art, which looking back is something that would need a little more practice. But I definitely liked how my realism turns out with line art applied to it so I decided for my own satisfaction to use line art in this piece. I kept the detailing as minimalistic as possible to prevent Jirou from looking too aged.
I didn't have access to my larger collection of coloured pencils at the time so colouring Jirou accurately was going to be a challenge. Luckily with a few different pencils for each colour I was able to replicate the colour scheme of Jirou in a pastel tone. Rather than using darker tones of these colours I resorted to using a new colour, choosing indigo since it would suit with the turquoise eyes. The same can be said for how a gradiented background from pale blue to purple was applied to the illustration.
So this one, despite depicting a robot wasn't very robotic for March of the Robots, but I intend to make the remainder of March's content as robotic as possible, so look forward to more robot themed content and more from the Technobians of Droey's Draws!
There's only been a few times when I've drawn Droey's Draws characters realistically and I remember when doing so for Anne Natalie I didn't use any line art, which looking back is something that would need a little more practice. But I definitely liked how my realism turns out with line art applied to it so I decided for my own satisfaction to use line art in this piece. I kept the detailing as minimalistic as possible to prevent Jirou from looking too aged.
I didn't have access to my larger collection of coloured pencils at the time so colouring Jirou accurately was going to be a challenge. Luckily with a few different pencils for each colour I was able to replicate the colour scheme of Jirou in a pastel tone. Rather than using darker tones of these colours I resorted to using a new colour, choosing indigo since it would suit with the turquoise eyes. The same can be said for how a gradiented background from pale blue to purple was applied to the illustration.
So this one, despite depicting a robot wasn't very robotic for March of the Robots, but I intend to make the remainder of March's content as robotic as possible, so look forward to more robot themed content and more from the Technobians of Droey's Draws!
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