You As a Jojo's Character

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, or Jojo's for short is a manga series written and illustrated by Hiroshiko Araki. The very popular anime and manga is most recognizable by its unique art style. I’m this instructable I am going to teach you to draw a yourself as a jojos character with a unique “stand”. In jojo’s stands are a manifestation of a persons soul and fighting ability

Supplies: I used a mechanical pencil, an inking pen, a 24 pack of crayola crayons, printer paper, and a light-box.

A long with Araki's unique art style, the flamboyance of the characters in their exaggerated poses gives the franchise much of its charm.

I had someone take pictures of me in different exaggerated poses so I could see what I like.

I eventually settled on this one.

When I started the drawing I drew two short dashes on my paper. One in around the middle of the paper, and one a good bit above it.

After that I began to roughly sketch the shape of my head.

I started with the cross method, and take note that the vertical line is slanted because of the way my head is turned.

I erased the top of my head because I realized I would need more space to fit my hair.

After this I refined my jaw and facial structure.

From there I erased the horizontal line and added eyebrows, make sure you are looking closely at the way your head is turned when doing this part.

After the eyebrows I added dashes to mark where my lips and nose would lay.

I used the dash to indicate where my top and bottom lip would meet, and drew a rough shape of my lips around it.

I also began to sketch my nose.

I gradually added more detail to my nose and was eventually happy with the shape.

I added the eyes after looking at a reference image. It's important to really get the bone structure right to you don't have to compensate with your facial features.

I began to work on my hair, make sure to accurately capture the hairline, its one of the most recognizable features.

I began to sketch my hair but after looking at my photo once again I erased it, and started over.

I looked closely at my photo and realized it was the wrong shape.

after erasing and re-drawing it I was content with it.

I returned to the arm and shirt to get some of the most critical folds in.

I eventually got carried away trying to do all of the folds and it turned into a mess, I decided to just step away from it and not focus on all of them.

The stand is the physical manifestation of the user's soul and fighting spirit.

Throughout Jojo's there are countless stand users all with their own unique stands.

I originally came into this wanting my stand to look like one of the more robotic ones in the series.

After looking at my sketch for a little bit and visualizing the finished product, I realized that I wanted the stand to be on the right rather than the left.

From there I began sketching a robot ninja of sorts.

I wanted my stand to have on a cloak sort of jacket, hair similar to what mine looked like when I was younger.

so I roughly sketched the head and hair, I didn't use the cross method because I didn't need it because of the lack of facial features.

I polished up my stand's right arm

After becoming content with the stand's overall shape I wanted to incorporate a reference of another anime franchise that I enjoyed into the drawing.

I decided to go with Naruto because it was the first anime franchise that I ever watched and read.

I made the stand's jacket reminiscent of the jacket that the character "Naruto" wore in the original 2002 series.

I placed a blank page on top of the finished sketch, and put paperclips on the corners.

I placed it on my light box and, traced over the sketch with a fine liner.

If you don't have a light box, you can gently erase the sketch an trace and then fully erase afterwards.

I felt as though my stand was lacking in detail so lining stages I added some creases and then doubled over them with black marker.

When coloring I would pick a 2 shades of each color so that I could emphasize shadows. Notice the regular orange and blood orange working together.

I wanted to experiment with the color of the hair so I did a black primary and green accent.

I also spent a few minutes wondering on what color the visor and skin should be, I meant to make the skin lavender and the visor pink but I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Thank you and I hope you enjoyed.