Cartooning With Chris: SCRIBBLE FISH

1. Scribble Fish - Intro: Hi, This lesson is called Scribble fish. It's a great drawing warm up that anyone can do. It's designed to open your mind, think out of the box, problem-solve, and strengthen your drawing and design skills. Also, scribbling can be very freeing. Fun. I'm a cartoonist, illustrator and animator with a lifetime of drawing experience. Welcome to cartoony with Chris. I'll guide you through. I hope you enjoy. 2. Scribble Fish - Part 1: Drawing: For this video, you'll need a pencil, a small stack of paper and colored pencils. Getting a successful scribble, draw one continuous line using the full space of your paper, making big round and loopy shapes, crossing the line several times as you go. This inadvertently creates randomized shapes for us to work with. Be sure to connect loose ends when you're through. Try not to scribble too much or too fast. We don't want many shapes that are too small. Now we find the fish. Not unlike when you look at a cloud in the sky and it looks like a duck, fine shapes that look like the body of a fish and then give it a face, some fins and whatever else is necessary. Fish wives. Using as much of the scribble lines that are already there to help you along. You can add whatever is necessary to complete your ideas. Fund as many fish as you can. The number one rule for cartooning is to have fun. Give them personality. You can give the fish interesting expressions, happy, sad, and mad. Use your shapes to help you decide what it wants to be. For instance, a vibrant or exciting looking shape can be a happy fish or a droopy, wobbly shaped could be Assaf fish. Challenge yourself. You can find other sea life to like jelly fish, whales, starfish, eels, seahorses, et cetera. Build your undersea world. When you found all the fish, you can at least find three. You can use all the shapes that are not fish or negative shapes and add things you might find in a fish's habitat. Things like seaweed, coral, and bubbles. 3. Scribble Fish - Part 2: Coloring: Time for color. Now we've worked all these great shapes into fish under the sea. We can now give our drawing more life with colors. Not only can you color your fish, you can color your background to all the negative non fish shapes. If you want, you can pick out colors ahead of time. Your color palette. Definitely feel free to use unusual colors. You can use whatever set of colors you have on hand. Today I'm using a basic color palette. Try giving herself interesting limitations for coloring. One thing you might try is to use vibrant colors for the fish while saving the different blues, greens and even purples for the non-test water shapes. Another thing you can try as a personal challenge. You could use only one color per shape and then not use it again the rest of your drawing. Because the scribbling aspect of this exercise yields unpredictable shapes to work with. Each time will be its own unique experience. I hope you had fun with scribble fish. You can start your day with this warm up. Or you can even invent your own variations. Maybe you can try one with birds. 4. Scribble Fish - Outro : Here's some more examples of Scribble fish. Again, thanks for stopping by. You can find more of my work on Instagram at Christopher underscore, genes underscore P. Thanks for watching.