Art Attack #139: Caitlyn the Snappy Sniper from League! 😍

Hey Hive!

We're back again with another Art Attack! If you're new to the series, this is where I share my drawings and the process behind them. A behind-the-scenes look at my artwork, if you will. This is not to say that I'm very good at art, or that I'm a professional in any way. In fact this is the opposite, and serves as a reminder to how I first started, and lets me track my progress too!

If you missed the last couple of posts, I started a new series where I use this template to draw different characters based on suggestions from my viewers on Twitch!

My mod Nightsy was the first person to redeem this and he redeemed one a day for 3 days straight! This third request was also by him, and he requested I draw Caitlyn from League of Legends/Arcane!

I don't play League (and tbh never will since I don't like MOBAs) and I didn’t know anything about her when I started drawing so I asked for a lot of references and turns out she’s a sniper so drawing her with her gun made sense. I was kinda nervous since I’ve never drawn a gun before but at least it was something sorta familiar since I’ve seen that same skin in Valorant.

This is her character art in-game:

Source: leagueoflegends

Turns out she has two different outfits in-game, and tbh I like her alternate outfit a lot better. Not because it's more revealing but I think it suits her better. The default outfit, while it does provide more protection (I assume) it feels more clunky especially in the shoulder and neck area.

Source: reddit

Anyway, since the alt outfit has less details I went with that instead just to make my life easier. This was the rough sketch I came up with on stream in like 3 minutes:

And after revising it I reworked it to match her pose better and thought this one made her more badass (plus I wouldn't have to draw too much of the gun so it would be easier on me too).

I went with this sketch and did the line art for her and decided on a simple one for her gun since most of the details are going to be through colour.

It took quite a while to colour the gun right, and I tried my best to make it as accurate as possible. But eventually we get this:

For the background Nightsy suggested a rooftop of sorts since she’s a sniper, and I thought of a city skyline with a crosshair in front would be cool. I tried googling for skyline reference pics but I found them too complicated and wanted something more simple and vector-like since this was just a background. Thankfully my favourite YT artist Art with Flo had a tutorial for a simple skyline that was perfect! She also had free building brushes on Procreate so this is really all thanks to her!

I wanted to go for a sunset vibe since the purple really matches Caitlyn, and this was the background I came up with:

I really loved how this background came out! Even though it's kinda simple I thought it was just perfect.

And this was the final piece:

I changed her lips a little bit too and thought this looked so much better than whatever I drew previously. Her arms might look a little disproportionate though but I had to make it so that it reached her hat so I didn't have a choice. I think overall she looks alright, and the fun looks pretty legit too.

It was only after I drew this that I started watching Arcane and found out she's in the show too! And damn what a great shot she is! I was so proud to finally get where she's from and what she's like.

Anyway here's the timelapse:

Hope you're enjoying this series so far and thanks so much for reading!

To find out more about me, check out my intro post here!

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Check out my previous post in this series!
Art Attack #138: Itto the Trolly Oni from Genshin Impact! 👹