SC S25W1: Drawing Kodomo Anime // 20.06.2025

_{This is @saniya9
From #Bangladesh}

🥰Assalamu alaikum friends🥰

How is everyone doing? I hope, by the endless mercy of the Creator, that everyone is well, healthy, and safe. Alhamdulillah, by Allah’s mercy and your prayers, I am also doing very well.My entire day today has gone very well by the grace of Allah. I’m agitated to join Season 25, Week 1 of the Anime Drawing Challenge , where the focus is on the joyous and expressive Kodomo Anime genre .For this week’s challenge, I Choosed Pikachu, the most iconic character from the Pokémon series.

Pikachu has always been my favorite character from the Pokémon series, as Pikachu strongly attracts children. Pikachu is a Pokémon species from the Pokémon media franchise created by Nintendo and Game Freak, and it is the franchise's mascot. Ash and Pikachu were great friends and companions; although their start was tough, they were almost never separated. Pikachu was always by Ash's side on his journey and liked to sit on his shoulder or head because Pikachu was always unwilling to stay inside his Poke ball.I am going to share my Pikachu drawing step by step.

Drawing tools🎨🖌️

🔴White paper
🟡Pencil HB
🔵Cutter
🟢Rubber
🟤Colour pencil
🟣Wax colour
⚫Compus

Step-01 👉Outlining the base shape

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🔴 First, I used a cutting compass to draw two circles with a pencil in the drawing notebook. First, I drew a small circle to shape the face, and then a larger circle to form the body.

Step-02 👉Building the formal shapes

🔴In the second step, I drew a plus icon in the small circle above that I had drawn for Pikachu's face. The purpose of adding the plus icon was to make it easier to draw its eyes and lips properly. After that, I drew two ears on top of the head.

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🔴 Then I drew a formal shape for Pikachu's hand on the large circle below, and after that, I added two round eyes inside Pikachu's face. Then I shaped one of its tails.

Step-03 👉Facial Features and figure

In the third step, I draw Pikachu's hands and complete the facial structure, then erase the small circle that was there earlier.

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🔴 Next, I traced the eyes, slender nose, and a resultant smile, along with the rosy After finalizing the line composition, I gently wiped out the extra drawing lines.

Step-04 👉 Final pencil sketch looks of Pikachu

🔴 At this stage, I have completed the full structure of Pikachu's ears and drawn its two legs.

Step-05 👉 Shading and Colouring🖌️🎨

🔴I used colored pencils and watercolor to draw this picture. First, I colored the upper part of Pikachu's ears black, and then I colored the rest of the ears with yellow colored pencil.

Then I colored a small part of Pikachu's eye black and didn't color there because only Pikachu's eye lens is white. After that, I added red color to Pikachu's cheeks and painted the entire body yellow.

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🔴 After finishing coloring Pikachu's full body, I sketched the full body again with a pencil so that the body structure of Pikachu becomes more realistically visible.

Step-06 👉 Final Result & Selfie with drawing

The final look of my drawing 🎨🖼️

🟡Thens my final drawing of Pikachu along with a selfie holding my artwork, including my username and the date.

A selfie with my drawing📸🖼️

Thank you very much for created this challenge steemian like me and provide opportunity to us.I learned a lot about simplifying forms, working with proportions, and the suggestive power of Kodomo- style art.This was such a fun and meaningful challeng.I have never done such anime art before, nor have I participated in a drawing challenge like this; this is my first time. I hope you all like my joint effort, and if there are any mistakes, please feel free to let me know.