Hi, Dov here, and today we have a new episode in the Art of You series. And today we'll be checking out the work of Dorajim, Dorajim, a concept artist based in South Korea. So I did find their work, I think, via Pinterest, and then it led me to their art station. Now, I'm not sure if they have a YouTube channel somewhere because I've seen people who do kind of the same thing they're doing. It's very similar, so I'm not even sure.
Oh, interesting. I'm not even sure if it's the same person, so... um yeah i'll check this one so yeah they do have quite a few posts here um where they just they just sort of compile a bunch of their sketches which i do like i like seeing uh sort of sketchbook or sketch compilations so this one was posted last year so they have a bunch of like line work here um and it shows you that you have to put in the work a lot and they're definitely focused more on character designs lots of women obviously Some mechas are in there, right?
But they're all kind of surrounding or around supporting the character, right? Definitely in the chicks. I agree. I do like their line work though, even though it's not like a finished sort of thing.
I do like their approach. I feel like they're doing this in sort of one shot. That's my guess because I've noticed for these people, these people They're very careful with their line work a little bit. They do things rather slow.
If you look at a lot of... because I do follow quite a few South Korean artists, they do take their time. They're not rushing these drawings and sometimes you would assume they would be able to accomplish a sheet of drawings in a couple of hours but for some people, for some of them, they can take like 10 hours sometimes to just complete a few drawings.
But I think it's worth it because the results do speak for themselves. I do like the proportions here. Very pushed obviously but it's kind of high. So you have lots of gestural anatomical studies here, right? Exploring different like positions, forms, maybe some composition.
But I do like seeing this because it's... Oh! I saw this on Pinterest as well.
So it's this guy or this chick who did it. So if you look at the rendering... I think they do spend the... like the drawing phase is very worth it because the moment they start rendering it just adds that extra bit of energy. And I don't think they use a lot of like texture brushes which I've also noticed like they use very simple maybe round brush and maybe a soft brush in there.
And maybe one texture brush and most of the texture brushes for these kind of artists it's so like a minimal. Like you can't even see it. They do emphasize a lot more drawing I think, draftsmanship.
And they tried to bring it to this level. And the moment they start rendering, it just compounds and works out even more. These ones are more simplified.
They're trying to understand forms maybe. The sketches are a bit more simplified. They're studying the shadows as well.
The moment you add shadows, it just automatically... You get the forms already. Even if you remove those lines, if your shadow work...
Shadow work? If the shadows are... well placed you can sort of guess what that thing is right damn look at the traps on this guy i love the experimentation here right um like even if you can tell the positions like what they're doing what what they're about so these are good studies i think i have to do a lot of these i used to do this back in college in university but it's been so long that i mean and you can tell if someone is not putting in the work in terms of their like human anatomy figure drawing studies because it shows up in their more you know in like stuff like this where you have to actually do something and create something like you're you're gonna realize how much you've not practiced right so here we have some more characters uh and when they do render these they don't always color it just keep it like either line work like this one or grayscale now this one they do they do have a little bit of color right but more like basic flats with a bit of shading here and there. This one's more simplified, right? Just flats for the pants, the big guns, the shirt, right?
The mask. Here we have some rendering. Oh, I do see they color the lines in the edges, which is very common where you start out maybe with some black lines or maybe the original sort of line sketch is already colored. But the point is you want to make sure your lines are sort of the same color as your actual, um, painting right so it's it's sort of a it's very close in terms of value to the actual paint um sometimes it's that or i do notice a lot of artists use red or maroon some kind of warm sort of color for the line work and i think it just blends with pretty much any color um when you do start painting stuff in do like this one though right let me just zoom in i wanna i wanna zoom in oh not much Anyway, yeah I do like this one.
And their proportions do vary sometimes. Like they're very good for example this one this chick is very anime-esque right very childlike. And then they can go to something more like this where you're already kind of it's a young adult basically. So I do like the diversity I guess or the variety of faces here.
For example look at this very simplified very chibi-esque uh very cartoony caricature-caricaturized right. So let me focus on... oh let's just check this one.
So this one's more finished, more of a character sheet. Right? Oh wow.
So they do render one. It's gonna be the front view. Highly rendered.
Very realistic approach. But for the back view, they just leave it as it is because you already kind of know how it kind of looks like from the front. So you can just assume that it's pretty much the same thing in the back. So this is more of a character sheet.
Very detailed work here. You know, something I've learned over time is that... This is like a bulk apparently of concept art so that's kind of what made me not want to do it.
Like the details is like oh jesus. But it's cool. It's cool to look at.
Like it shows you that thinking happens when you're doing this. You have to think about why they're wearing this sort of thing. There has to be some context.
Like it can't just be like oh she's hot which is kind of my mentality so maybe I'm not fit to be in that world. So that's why I'm here. I'm on YouTube.
Anyway, more studies, more sketch compilations here, right? Look at that. Oh, I love her legs here. Oh, wow. Oh, some colored stuff here.
I like this one. Oh, this chick with the bubble gum. That's where she puts her gun, right? So we have a sniper chick who's kind of out there, obviously.
And we have a girl with a... Is it a fox tail or is it part of her like head? I think it's more of a fox tail.
Who knows? Is it? of foxtail. Anyway, the rendering is cool.
You do see a little bit of that line work showing from their drawing initially and then oh look at the lighting here damn. And look at the subtle gradient here it's very sort of red in this spot and it gets colder as you go to the top maybe it's because she's being constricted by these stockings or are they or high socks whatever I think they're high socks stockings whatever. And yeah, the way they render it's very... they do understand realism.
Meaning they add like the under, you know, the reflected lighting. Like it just looks more real. You do see a little bit of that coarse shadow, right?
Whenever light meets dark. Oftentimes in the middle you do see that sort of a darker value here, right? So a lot of the rendering is very realistic.
They do stylize the face and maybe the body a little bit but definitely the face. But it leans a little more on the realistic side. you know i like these ones very loose sketches very very playful right very experimental so here we have some more now i think they're using a different brush here it's more like a pencil brush and it has some thickness to it and it looks like a flat brush of some kind here it's gonna be more refined as a drawing but it's more i guess a little tighter than the ones on top but i like it And again, draftsmanship skills are on point.
And the moment you start rendering, it just looks even better, right? So we have a schoolgirl here. Schoolgirl with a freaking whip.
I'm not sure what these bands are for. Like in school? We never had those. But it looks nice.
Oh, so we have-oh these ones are more like drawings right with some sort of painting underneath but this one it's more painted meaning you've essentially painted over the line work right? You do see a little bit of that showing or that line work showing in that like the gloves or in some spots here and there but let me just zoom in it's mostly painted. Oh wow, look at their character designs here it's so unique.
Oh, she has scars on the back so she has some kind of history right? She could be like some kind of assassin. Obviously she has a knife here. Is that a knife or it's one of those balisong? Balisong ba yan?
Or like a butterfly knife, right? The one that makes sounds. It's pretty cool.
But you know I've used one of these but it's so like complicated like why use it? I mean it does look cool so maybe that's why she's using it. Or maybe that's just her preference uh that's that's her that's her like preference. But yeah, if you look at her drawing, it's not line work done in ink. It's like a very strong pencil sketch, right?
You know how you draw if you've ever drawn traditionally on your sketchbook? Sometimes you draw very loosely with a more sketchy pencil, meaning it's kind of it's getting thicker as you draw. And there are drawings you do where you do use, let's say, basically maybe a harder pencil.
Basically it's more... Where you're not as loose, you're trying to capture the contours. And I do see a little bit of that here, right?
Like when they draw, they're trying to capture a lot more contours, right? Those subtle details, folds, skin. They're very into that. Because some people, for example, think of Loish. I remember seeing one of her videos, tutorials online.
I think it's for free. Or Twitter, like I saw a clip of it on her Twitter page. She mentioned how...
You can capture, you can draw via, like in her process, she started to draw by capturing the movement or the general sort of energy or the form of the character and not the contours. And that's what made her level up in a way. And I do see the progress and I do see how it works. But for some people, yeah, they're capturing the general sort of form and flow of the character, but they're very into the contours or they lean more on the contour side.
rather than on the gesture slap form side. Obviously, you're going to have to do both. It's going to show. Both are going to show. But those who lean more on the form, gestural side, their anatomy is going to be more stylized, more playful.
For more contour people, it's going to lean more realistic. For example, if you look at the face here, it's going to lean more on the gestural side because you're kind of animating, exaggerating the forms a little more, the shapes a little more. But as you go to the body, in the case of Dorajum here, Or dorayjum, dorayjum, whatever.
They're more focusing on the contours. That's the subtle sort of like calf sort of muscles or those knees. Even those knees look so nice for some reason. What?
Oh, I think I've seen this before on Pinterest. Obviously bunny chick always a plus. Oh! Okay, this one's so f-ed up.
Oh shi-wait, I think I've seen this artist on YouTube. Like this is their thumbnail. If only I remembered the title. But I think I'm... Hopefully, I'm not getting it wrong.
But I believe this artist, Dharajim, is on YouTube. And they do take quite a while to draw. And it's very validating to see that. But I mean, the results show it.
You know, they're very like A+, confident and supreme. So I'm assuming that's their tablet. Let me just see. Is that their tablet?
It looks like a tablet or a stylus pen. They have the coffee here. And that's me, I always wear like boxer shorts at home with the jacket. This is f***ed up. Obviously this is like uh our goddess.
Is it a he? I think it's a he. Hopefully.
Oh they do like the redden the the knees maybe. I mean it's very common to like redden the knees, some fingers, and like the cheeks a little bit or some ears. Because I think that's where blood tends to accumulate or maybe the the thinnest skinner ass. Not skinner, thinner.
Jesus. and if you look at their brush is it a do they have brush variety guys i know someone who loves brushes whenever i see people like this i'm like oh they can accomplish so much with so little and i'm like oh my god oh oh check out tb tb joy if you haven't heard of her she she likes doing a lot of like soldier kind of people milky way more drawings here right so I highly recommend-Oh my-Oh, stop. So here we have a drawing of a bunch of bunny girls, right?
I'm not sure what this means. But what I can say is, By the way, I just heard that in my Google Translate. One of you mentioned it. Because it's a Korean comment.
I translated it on YouTube. Or sorry, on Google Translate. And apparently it sounds-Or it's supposed to sound like a-Apparently it means, it's awesome.
Hopefully, I'm correct. If you're Korean and you're like a- that's not what it means Dave. Well that's what Google said so sorry. So it's the same drawing right but this one's random. Let me just look at the drawing first.
Look at those things. There it is. There it is. Now it's again focused on the line work.
It's very contour heavy. Check out the work too of Ms. Jisoo. She works with uh I know she's associated with Super Annie.
It's like a team, a company, sort of a collective group, art group. Yeah. Kim Joong-gi used to be part of it. I mean, he's still part of it, but obviously he passed away and stuff like that. So let me see the colored version here, right?
So they did leave in the drawing or the line work, right? But again, your line work doesn't have to be finished. It can be somewhat like this where it's just kind of rough.
Look, it's not even rough, but it's more contour, more careful, but it's not finished. Finished. Look at that.
Oh, Jesus. And again, look at the way they're painting it, the lighting. Lots of soft brushes being used, right? No brush variety, guys.
Keep it simple. And if you do that, you can achieve something like this. Oh, yeah.
Can we zoom in? Can we zoom in? You can't zoom in.
Anyway. Also, they're trying to practice more here. I love these. What the freak is going on here? Look at this guy.
Damn. Crazy. Oh, there you go.
Oh, check out another guy. or chick I don't even know EO58 something or their youtube channel is named 58mw if I recall correctly I will link these people by the way in the description below yeah so I guess that is that's it for this rtv of the rajim I do recommend you check out their work follow them on artstation and if I can find their youtube channel I probably won't because I think it's in in korean so I won't be able to find that um but yeah check out the work oh buff oh maids oh wow oh wow oh my god i do love the gradient it goes from like super warm to like really cool or cold as you go down like they're trying to say focus your eyes on this shit this is where you want to see things There you go. Okay, stop. So I recommend Dora Jump.
Check out their work and hopefully enjoy their work. So that's it for this art review and I'll see you in the next episode. Bye!