Let’s learn how to draw Noel White from Santa Company today!
Noel White (ノエル・ホワイト) is one of the main female protagonists of Japanese anime short film Santa Company. She is an innocent and active young girl to whom the Christmas is a particularly lonely time, as her mother left long ago and her father is too busy at Christmas time to come home. One day when she’s heading to her apartment, the elevator opens into “Santa Company”, the headquarters of all Santa’s operations in Finland. She decides to become an apprentice Tonttu, a mythological creature from Nordic folklore today typically associated with the winter solstice and the Christmas season. In Santa Company it is an assistance role. Tonttu help with wrapping and preparing presents for delivery. As a trainee of Santa Company, Noel White prepares for her test to become an official Tonttu while finishing her assignment: “To find the most important thing for a Santa Claus.”
Step 1
As always all the blue and green lines are just construction lines and will be erased later so do not push on your pencil too much ^_^ I will try to be super efficient with the text so will only describe steps that require some explanation.
Make sure to leave enough free space on paper for next steps. You can see how much space you will need from the size of the paper on this picture.
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Lighten all the construction lines by “stamping” the kneaded eraser on the paper. Make sure to refer to the picture bellow as you need to ink only some parts of the construction lines.
Step 10
Wait till the ink is nice and dry and erase all the construction lines.
Step 11
To add colors, make sure to sketch the color outlines with the right color or pencil first.
If your goal is to become a real Mangaka and design your own manga characters make sure to try to draw Noel White from memory several times. Always compare the drawing to the original and correct any mistakes you see. Do this till you are happy with the result. It doesn’t have to look exactly the same, don’t sweat the details. The point is that you get the main shapes right and that it looks good. This is the best way to build a huge library of manga shapes in your memory that you can use to draw and design your own manga characters ^-^.
Draw with passion! ^_^
Hiroshi (drawing by Bianchi)
