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1. Introduction: Do you want to learn how to draw backgrounds for your characters and design semi realistic
environments to support them. In this class, you'll
be introduced to world-building and concept art. In this series of lessons, you'll learn how
to plan and draw a simple environment or a
creature of your choice, using lines and shapes will compose a background
with natural elements, will learn how to
place our creatures into the environment
to tell a story. Then add line art, coloring and shadows for debt, you're welcome to follow
along with me step-by-step. If you're a beginner, otherwise, feel free to choose
your own Pokemon or character inspiration
to freestyle and design your own
original environment. I'll be drawing digitally, but you could work in the
medium of your choice. I'd love to see what
you create at the end. So please share your
artwork with our community. Have fun in class.
3. Drawing the Creature: Let's start out with
our first one here. He's going to have his
signature pose on here. Definitely have some shrew
Mitch reference beside me just so I'm able to get
exactly the way he looks. And then I can change
up some poses, some little petals falling on him and coming up to the top. And he also has a little
flower peeking out here. Almost like it's little
bottom, but quite smaller. Let's bring it down. I'll do his small round
bottom that you can see underneath his petals
in his small feet. This creature is very tiny. Just erase this part, this line that I
made over Neith it. And let's draw
that angry face of his eyes and his facial features
are very simple. They're just some
dots and some lines. Not very detailed, but I'm
going to do a couple of them. Little family of shrew
mesh creatures here. Here's my first one. For my next one, I
might make him happy. He's going to be still
having the same face. But maybe with his mouth open. Growing his little top
again, this little petals. Remember when you're doing this sketch to
draw very lightly. This isn't your
final work just yet. You can outline it
in a marker or a Sharpie once you're finished, or you could just color with
pencil crayon over top. This shear mesh is
kind of pushing his petals around almost
as if they're his arms. He's kinda jumping. Almost looks like
he's jumping for joy. This is little bottom here. And some circle. Eat. A very simple feat. He doesn't even have any toes. Some round feet. Now this eyes closed, still with this line, big line for an eyebrow. And he's going to be
either yelling or happy. This mouth open, this little
tongue sticking out here. And I'm also going to add
some spots on true Mish. He does have some polka dots. Only a few though,
in on him as well. And I'll do a last one here. Maybe. I'll erase part
of my rocks here. So he'll be in this area and he'll be chasing
it over here. This year. Mesh will be a
little smaller than the rest, since it's farther
in my background. Thanking him just
a little bit more tiny little petals
on the top here. And he's really
going to be chasing that turtle and have
an angry face again, this one's not too much
grumpy but more angry. So I have his big eyebrows pointing downward
into a triangle, and his mouth is
going to be open as he's yelling at
this turtle here. No Little Turtle should
do square root all. He's also going to be smaller. Farther away from our
shrew meshes in the front. It's going to make this a little smaller just so I'm able
to fit them all in there. When he's running, he
does have a longer body. Here's his shell. It's turtle shell. I'm going to have some shapes on here as the
pattern of my turtle. And his body hanging down here. And then his head
will be about here. I'm just going to draw a circle just so I know where his
head is going to be. Then have his feet
bulking out here. There's another foot over here. His arm could be waving saying sure meshes,
trying to get me. And since he's facing the side, we can only see one
of his eyes here. Now I have a worried
look on squirrel. To do that, I just added a
curve upward on his eye. This is almost as
if he has his eyes curved in this worried look. And I'll have his mouth
open a little bit. In a move his mouth downward. Instead of him smiling. He's going to be scared. I think I'm going to
make his tail a little more round and big here. That's what I like
about square root or his curly tails in a spiral. You wouldn't normally
see that on a turtle. But Pokemon are very different. You to have their own unique
spin on real animals. So here's my little creatures. Shrew mesh character and also a little squiggle
in the background, running for his life. I'm also going to continue this trail that I erased first. Just so I was able to draw that true mesh and see
exactly what I was doing.
4. Outling the Sketch: So you can line as
well if you'd like. That's just by using a pen or
a marker onto your drawing. Once you line your sketch, you can always erase your
pencil marks as well. Unless you'd like to keep
it as a pencil drawing. I have my little polka dots. These polka dots are going
to be thinner lines. And the outline of my shoe mesh. Only because they
are the details. When you make details, they should be little thinner
than your main outline. Same with facial
features or your mouth. It will be thinner lines. And I'm just erasing. Once I go over some lines here, just fixing up some things. If you are using
a pen or marker, you just have to be careful
about going over some lines. Because sometimes
that is permanent. So it will be hard to erase unless you have an erasable pen, which are super handy. Now on to my second
true Miss year. He, there is little
petals poking upward. Just so it looks like
he is very happy. They almost act there his arms. And once again, for
these little polka dots here, a thinner line. And I'll add one up here. Remember you can
also add things or remove things from your
sketch into your drawing. If there's something
you'd like to change. Here's my shear mess with
this one tooth here. It can be a baby sure. Mesh. And erasing. Just that little mistake
I made when I went over my line is round little feet. Zoom out. Now we'll do
these two in the back here. Thin polka dots here. And his angry face. I like how simple is faces. Just to show that
very simple designs can also be very interesting. You don't have to have
a lot of detail to your drawings to make
them look very unique. There's a worried
look on his face. Hopefully he won't get caught. I have a circle up here. This will be his little glimmer in his eye or a highlight there. Lot of cartoon characters like
to have that look on them. Lots of round shapes
on square root or destroying some more
designs on the turtle here. And I'm going to thicken my
outline on his head just so it's a different size to
the details in there. Want to make sure that
when they look at him, they're looking at
his head first. Now I'll do some lining
details in my environment. He's bushes are gonna
be very cartoony like lots of loops. You'd like to have more realistic designed
to yours as well. You can do that. You want to have
more of yours at painterly look, That's awesome. I'm also adding some
different grass strokes here, different from my sketch. Because I think I need some
more across my bush here. A great way of showing graphs
without actually drawing all the little
strokes are just by doing these half triangles here, not completely closing it. Some side-by-side. Somewhere around my trail here. You can have yours in
front of a tree or a bush. Now have some small ones here to showing variety of each size. So if you have some small ones, it also have some
larger ones beside it. Just makes it a little
more interesting. Also facing different
directions as well. And I'm going to
make my lines in the background a little thinner than they
are in the front. Just because it is farther away. So it will be hard
to see these ones. Taking my pen and quickly
making some loops here. And I have some
overlapping each other. They're not all side-by-side, but some are sticking
out from underneath. Someone's way, way back
there to be even more thin, will start to lose
their form here. Since they're so far away. They're definitely not as thick if you compare to
the ones up here. They're very small, very thin. Just as they are, disappear
into the distance. I'm gonna continue this
bush little farther. Not ended exactly
where I had it. Maybe it moves all the
way to the side here. Very long hedge in
the background. Also includes some
mini ones about here. Around where my trail ends. So my line will become
a little more thick. As it gets closer
on this trail here. I'm just going to
erase it as it went through a couple of
my grass blades here. It's going to erase
a couple of those. And seeing here, haven't drawn
the grass blades here yet. So once I do that, I can
erase my trail lines. They're going to add more
than I had on my sketch. Tall ones, maybe some
very skinny ones here. And some more
bushes to the side. Lots of loops. Almost like as if I was
drawing curly hair. This is how I would
draw some curly hair. Lots and lots of around loops. I might have some flowers
growing on my bushes. I think it might
bring these bushes down just a little bit. So they're not so high up there. And maybe I'll continue
ease back bushes instead. Again, making sure
that I'm going to do some thin lines back here. Very lightly drawing, not
pressing too hard with my pen. In erasing just some parts here. Now I'm going to add some
of my trees that I have. Here's my sin trunk. These trees are going
to be very skinny. And they're not going to
have any leaves on them. These ones are just going
to be trees with branches. All their leaves fell off. Some thin branches coming
off of it as well. Lots of lines here. Maybe you have some trees
that are like this as well. Maybe you don't want to add any sort of greenery
to it or any leaves. You could just have branches. Adding more branches
to this guy. Didn't do too many in my sketch. But that's okay because I
can go back and add some more some more over here as well. I have some grass blades
up against my tree. Just some more half triangles. I'm actually going to make
these a little more thin. It's there in the
background here. Be a little hard to see. I'm going to draw some very, very thin and minds here showing that there are
trees in the background. But you can't quite see them. It might be too far away. Really get all those details. It's going to move
this guy over here.
5. Colouring the Background: Alright, and I think
I'm going to start with some very simple
coloring today. Maybe I'll start with
my background first. Actually going to do a light bluey green
color for the sky here. To fill this all in. I'm not going to
worry about my color going over top of my bushes here because I know
I'm going to be putting green right
over top of it. But then once they start
coloring in my bushes, I need to be very careful. I don't go outside
of those lines. Let's start by having this bluey green color as these
bushes in the background. Solid coloring that one in. Not worrying about any shadows
or highlights just yet. This blocking in
my colors for now. I'm going to just do just
the solid colors first. And then I'll add some shadows or find out where I'm
going to have my son. My son could be on any
side of my page right now. It just blocking in
these colors first, making sure I get
right to those borders there with my bushes. And since they're just
little small outlines, I can go over them just a
little bit. And that's okay. If you're using pencil crayon, make sure that you're
working with it very lightly and not going too hard. And coloring at every angle. Make sure that if you're
coloring in one direction, maybe you going up and down or maybe you're
going side to side. Make sure it's not
all over the place. So you get an even color. You could even outline your
drawing with pencil crayon. Instead. You don't have
to use a pen or a marker. Even just use your pencil
crayon to do that. That would just be
by pressing down harder or the outline
and then pressing lightly to color it
in and zoom out here. See my colors. Now I think for
the rest of my green here, I'm going to have a
more of a yellow green. This is more of a
bluey green to it. I did have a lot of blue there. Now I'm going to go back
and get some bright green. Shoe mesh is kind of a darker green with
some yellow there. We're going to have those
types of colors here. We'll start with a
darker green for these bushes and then a
lighter green for the rest. And just like before
just adding that solid color in before I do any kind of
shadows, highlights. I'm going to zoom in
here so I can look nice up and close at those curves. If I have some bushes
in-between here is might be a darker color after I
go in with the shadows. Since it's hiding
behind something, maybe the light won't
be hitting it as much. So it will be a darker green. Following along my waves. You can even think
about what season your environments in. Maybe you have some snow
on your trees or bushes. Or they could be red
or orange colors. If it's the fall. You don't have to
be a bright green. Leaves could be falling
down from the trees. You could have some in
the air that are slowly falling down show
like a gust of wind. So on these bushes
that I have closer, I'm just adding a
different green to them, not the same ones that I
have in the background. Just so I have some variation
and changes to them. Just so they're a little bit
different from one another. I have those bushes down. I think I'm going to add a really big patch of
green to cover the rest. Might be a little bit
more of a yellow green. Let's test it. Yeah, that's a good one. Color this part all in here. So I can get a lot
of green down very quickly and then I'll
go in and do my grass. I can go over my shoe mesh here because I am going to
be coloring over top. So I'm not too
worried about that. And I can also go
ahead and erase some parts following that
trail that I made before. The trail that they are on
is going to be a dirt trail. That's why I have my grass here in that color is
going to be different. Maybe orangey, yellow or
a tan color for my dirt. It just know it's going to
be different from my grass. That's why I'm avoiding it. Here we go. Erasing some of my lines
that I just went over. In picking up some
places that I must have missed. As I was coloring. I'll have my grass a
lighter or darker color. So you can tell the
difference between just the land and
these blades here. Thinking, I might make
it a darker green. I also have some
grass that comes onto my dirt road which is okay. This overlaps it
just a little bit. I'm just slowly doing
my grass blades here. I do have a lot of them, so they do take some time. It also rounding out the bottom. So once they get there.
6. Colouring the Creature: I'm going to get that gold, yellow color for sure. Mesh a little lighter. Sure. Which has these little green
spots on them to eerie, cute yellow and green
mushrooms sort of creature. Quick little highlights
on his feet in on him to just some light
yellow yellow patches. All right. So since I already used the colors
for our first remiss here, I'm going to grab that
exact same yellow and use it for this bottom one. But make sure to keep track of any colors that you are using. Just so if you are using the
same color for anything, it will match up perfectly, going to grab a
bigger brush so I can fill in this larger area. We're gonna go over
top of the body, first with the yellow. And then I'll go back and
add those green spots, some yellow highlights, and the rest of the
green feet and legs. And then underneath we
have that green color. So I'm just going to grab
that same green from the irregular mesh and
color it right underneath, going to be the same color
as the feet, though. I don't mind if I just
color this straight through and this will be the same green for the spots on the body. I'll just fill in those as well since I have
this green selected. Next, I have the Shrew mesh
with their mouth open. So I'm going to use a pink color or the tongue and also
the inside of the mouth. And maybe I will have different color for both
the inside of the mouth and the tongue will use a
pink with the inside, slightly darker pink
and I'll grab more of a pastel pink for
the tongue here. I go back and fix up little
spots that I went over. And for the tooth, I'm going to have it white. If you have any spots on your drawing and that
is going to be white, you can just leave
that area plane. But since I colored over
top of it with the yellow, I'm just going to go over it
with the white that I have. And just like our shrew
mesh up here that I have, I'm going to use that
same yellow highlight on the top here of my head. And I'm going to use
that same light green or some highlights on the feet
and even the shadow here. So that's more of a
golden color that'll have on the edge
of this rubbish. And I'll put it right underneath this little brow
part here as well, since there'll be
a little crevice. And I'm going to do
the exact same thing for our shrew Amish
up at the top here. So grabbing that
same yellow color for the body and coloring it in, I'll zoom in a bit just so I can see all these little edges. And I'll grab that
same green from down here and use it for the feet. And since this your mesh
mouth is open as well, we'll do the exact same pink or the inside and
also the tongue. When you get these polka dots
filled in first, zoom out, go grab that pink
that we have here, making sure I'm using
the same colors and not switching from maybe a
slightly lighter pink. I want everything just seem very cohesive and the same curve, just keeping track of the
same colors that I used. And similar to the highlights
here we'll add one on the top of this Romesh and also some of those
golden shadows. So we'll add one to this little brow we have here
that's pointing downward. It's more angry. It will have it along on the inside of these
little parts. There will be a little
bit of a shadow here since the petals or an over top of this area and also
along this side of the body. Alright, so now that we
have our shrew mesh done, I'll color in the middle, which has very different
colors from the Shrew mesh, a squirrel has a nice blue color to its head, hands, and feet. It's features are very small, so I'm going to be careful
when going along these edges. There's some tight corners wheeling around the
eye filling that all n. And we have
one-foot here. Since he's running. We have them in
action and filling in the back of this
foot here as well. Alright, so next, I'll add
some color to its shell, which is a warm brown. And for the belly of the square root will
it actually has a pale yellow color which is different to the shell
while grabbed a very light yellow and fill
that in on the bottom. And I just missed the tail. So grab that blue color and fill it in for
squirrels tail. And there we have
the base colors. And since the square root
will has its mouth open, I'm going to grab that
same pinky color from the Shrew meshes mouth and use it for the square
root will as well, since we have some
white in the eye, I'll just fill that in
with a brown colors. So this will be the
square root color and around squirrel shell, I'm also going to
use a white S4. The trim that's the shell
has a little bit of white around the trim
instead of that brown color. And to add some of that shadow like we did to the Shrew meshes. I'm going to pick the
blue color and choose a slightly darker blue or
some of those shadow parts. So anywhere where the light
won't be hitting it too much. So around the sections
that are overlapping. So maybe on the face
here a little bit where the curling tail comes in. This is kind of hidden
a little bit here, but we'll add a darker blue along this part
of the foot here, and maybe just between
the fingers here as well. All right, and I'll also
add some highlights to the shell since the light is going to be shining
down on there, I'll grab a warmer
brown and just put a warm spots where these
highlights here, perfect. So now we have our
Pokemon colored in.
7. Adding Details and Shadows: I'm going to go into
the environment. Though I have a large
dirt patch that I want to add and start picking
a nice color for it. But I'm going to
choose a tan or this. So tans a bit in-between,
orange and yellow. It's very light color. I want this to be a dirt
path and I will start coloring in
underneath the colors that I did before, my new color, this entire thing in here, I'll use my paint bucket, will be a little bit faster, might be easier to color this section in before
the characters. If you have a really large part of your page that's going to be the same color going around
each one of the characters, making sure that I didn't miss
any of those little spots. And around the bushes
here I have in the back. And since I want there to
be some texture to show that this part of the
habitat is rough, like dirt or sand. I'm going to add some
dots and specs around it in some darker and
some lighter colors. So I'm going to use
a special brush for this to make
the dots quickly, which is our stipple pen here. But if you want to take this
look and make sand or dirt, and you're using a
pencil and paper, you can take your pencil
and just dot your paper really fast as many
times as you can. This will create a speckled
look that can bring an interesting texture to the surface that
you're coloring. I'm going to grab a darker
shade here of brown, different from the brown
that I'm using for the entire path going
around some of these edges, adding that bandy look to it and the stippling
of that texture. Making my brush a little
bit bigger to go along. I'll grab a lighter
color as well, making some more dots. Zoom in here. You can see that
texture here a little bit. It's just all
speckled like dirt. And back to my regular brush, I can go in and add
larger dots here, this sum in other areas
to show that dirt, I can make some smaller dots, some larger ones will add
them around the outline here, get that dirt, look to it. All right. So after
I have my dirt path, I'm going to go in and finish up the trees that I have here. I have some in the
background and I have these larger
ones that are closer. So I'm going to
grab a brown color. I like the brown that's
used on squirrels shells. So I'll grab that same brown and start coloring
in these trees. Zoom in to make sure that I'm getting it right along the edge. Make my brush size a
little smaller to get in these little tiny crevices
in along these branches. I'm coloring just like
how I did the line. So I'm not going
from side-to-side. I'm going up and down, following the exact same way
that the line is moving. If I'm coloring in this tree, I'm going all the
way up and down, not gonna go against it. It's much easier if I go with the line and
color just like that, it's easier and I won't go over the line work that I have. We have some in the background. We'll use that same
brown go along with it. The trees are
getting smaller and smaller as they get
to the background, since they are
farther away from us, the branches start to be more thin and I don't have many
lines coming from here, so maybe I'll just create some, we have one line
will draw some very, very thin branches
in the distance. Some tiny lines that
are coming from the trunk though now after
laying all of that color, I'll start adding
some of those shadows and highlights that
are underneath the sun is shining down on the creatures from the left side
of our scene here. So coming down like this, we have our highlights
on this side. So if we're going
to make a shadow, It's going to go
towards the right. So I'm going to put some shadows right underneath our
characters here, which will be a darker
brown from the dirt. So I'll grab a dark
brown and I'm going to place that right
underneath our characters, just a little circle. And for our squirrel here, since it's jumping
up in the air, will have the shadow go right below it instead of it
being attached to it. This will show that it's
lifted up from the ground. There's a little bit of a
gap between the shadow. And I'll also add some
shadows and highlights to our green bushes
that we have. The sun is shining
from this left side. We'll have some nice
bright green colors coming from the
tops of the bushes. Let's do these ones
in the back here. Going right along the tops will just add some
nice green highlights. Just going in that
same bubbly motion that I did for the
actual sketch. And the line work very
circular and bubbly. This matching the same style
as we have for the bushes. Maybe we have some
in the middle here, some smaller ones have
some thick and some thing. I'll also add it to
these bushes as well, since they're the same color. We can add some
within the bushes. Well, doesn't have to be right where the lines are that I drew. There can be some that don't
have any lines at all, just some highlights in the
middle of the bush as well. I'll add some to this bush here. That's a much lighter color. Make it a different
green from the grass. Don't want it to
be too confusing. And we can also add some darker ones by the
bottom, not too dark. That's something to break up. The flat colors though these bushes are over
top of one another. So I'm going to have a shadow that's coming right
underneath there, anywhere where the
bushes are meeting near the bottom is also good as well. Some very subtle ones at some
of that darker green color. And just like the highlights, we can have some
in the middle two doesn't have to be
right by the lines. And here is our final
creature habitat with a few Pokemon friends. I hope you enjoyed the
process of putting this scene together from sketch to final coloring.
Thanks for joining.
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