Ari Okshurg (known online under the username @ariokshurg), is known for their professional, Disney-esque art style. Some unique features of this style include warm, muted colour palettes, detailed clothing folds, and strong shape language. You can view their portfolio here! https://cara.app/ariokshurg
For this style study, I referenced these two drawings.
Some things I observed were the loose, sketchy line quality similar to Ian Worthington. The top drawing is neater, but looking at the line widths it looks as if Ari directly used the sketch, erasing and cleaning it up as they went. Ari’s hand drawings are also very unique, with prominent knuckles and box-like fingers. Bearing this in mind, I gave the style my first go!
This here was a warm-up sketch, where I tried to familiarize myself with the unique facial structure and style of drawing hands. The one holding the mug seems fairly accurate, but the outstretched hand looks very poo poo stinky bad!
Next, I tried drawing a sketch for a coloured piece. I drew this character of mine again!
I really liked trying to draw an open mouth in the warmup, so I tried to have her look mid-conversation. I had fun drawing the angular eyelids and angular folds in the coat. Or flannel?? What’s it called when it’s like a flannel but doesn’t have the plaid pattern I don’t know fashion names… “Why don’t you Google it?” Shhhh shhh it’s my inquiry I get to fill space with unrelated tangents! Anyway
Like the pieces I referenced, I decided to go straight from this sketch to the colouring! I originally tried sampling directly from the reference images, but it turned out kind of muddied and weirdly greenish, so I played around with colour balancing until I found some colours I was happy with.
Here’s the final drawing! I ended up adding some greenish-blue shadows faintly overtop, which you can see under the collar and in the hair. This isn’t usually a feature of Ari’s style, but this piece was begging for it. It shook me back and forth yelling “give me blue-green shadows or ELSE!” Which was admittedly rather surprising like you’re a drawing you’re not meant to tell me what to do but it happened anyway sooo
This style of drawing was really fun! Between this and Ian Worthington’s art style, I’m definitely more drawn to sketchy lineart the older I get.