Having trouble drawing rubble in battle scenes? All you need is chocolate

Japanese Twitter user @BigotVinus has enlightened us all with his trick on using broken pieces of chocolate as reference for drawing rubble.

“When drawing battle manga, I often see people complaining about how difficult it is to draw rubble. But all you need is to break a chocolate bar into pieces.”

Many eyes on Twitter glowed with respect as they realised the simplicity of this supposedly complex task. But this is no surprise, as making sure the rubble looks realistic with matching edges is not an easy feat.

One Twitter user even overlapped the image of the chocolate and the drawing to see how close they are.

“Amazing… and the chocolate looks delicious.” (Well, the latter is probably the incentive for using chocolate as drawing reference!)

In reply, @BigotVinus highlighted that regardless of whether the images match or not, it is more important that the drawing looks like rubble. Besides, it is only a replication of the texture that aspiring manga artists need.

@BigotVinus also went on to give advice on how to deal with the chocolate, such as cooling it in the fridge and turning the aircon on to keep the room cool. The warmth of your fingers will melt the chocolate, so it is best to wrap it with aluminium foil and break it into pieces with a hammer. With all that done, take a photo of the edible rubble and draw away!

In addition, using a hammer or other hard object to break the chocolate leaves a combination of big and small pieces, which is ideal.

Indeed, breaking the chocolate by hand could lead you vulnerable to identity theft. With technology evolving to the extent that hackers can copy your fingerprints using your peace sign selfies, you would not want people to steal your identity from fingerprints on chocolate, like what Twitter user @miii22miii found!

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