Character Design Exercises to SMASH Art Block!

1. Character Design Exercises to SMASH Art Block! : What's up, guys? Welcome Dave Reed Here, AKA drug-free Dave. And today I have a brand new fun drawing class, a 2D drawing class. It's character design and it'll help you smash art block. We all have our block. It's a big issue. It's annoying. I have it, I go through it, but this exercise always helps me. So I'm gonna make some shapes and then we're going to fill in those shapes with character designs. This is something that forces you to look, to think outside the box. It'll serve help you to think differently, to create differently, to come up with different things and not just draw the same old thing over and over again. You can get bored with. This will help me draw a new characters in new ways and think in different ways. So as you can see, I did six shapes, very different, very distinct shapes. The first thing that I do is, okay, I see the shape. I'm thinking bird, I'm thinking dog. I'm thinking a girl with long hair. I'm thinking a guy with short hair. I tried to plug in what my brain thinks of and tries to plug in that empty space. And it forces me to make sometimes really weird characters. But I like doing weird characters. I like doing the Disney thing. I like doing my style. But then I also like doing these weird characters that I can bring my style into. And that's, that's the key with getting rid of art block. You just have to be, you just have to be reignited. You just have to have something that's going to that's going to ignite that. Luckily for you without saying rightly, you just want something that's going to boost your creative juices, boost your mind and buoy, booster and boot in, boost your thought process and boot your butt back to business. Alright, so I think that's it. That's all I'm going to say for this video. The next video is going to be the class project, where I'm going to tell you about what's required of you in my class. But of course you know how I am doing. My class projects are. So let's move on to the next video. Class project. 2. Class Project: Alright, welcome to video number two, the class project. Okay, so there's two parts to this class. And also this class is going to extend forever. In a sense. Now hear me out. So you can follow along everything that I'm doing because there's gonna be a lot of tips and tricks. There's a lot of ways that I opened up my brain into how I think. And I want to impart that on you because there's just lots of little things that I don t think about because of muscle memory. I just, I've been drawing forever. I've been doing this type of thing for a long time. So there's a lot of tricks. So you'll notice in this class I'm going to pause and I'm going to go back and I'm going to explain why I do certain things. I feel like that's the most important thing with these classes and that's what I love to teach, is why I am doing certain things and making certain decisions. So that's number one. After this class, I have something in my teeth. So after this class, how many shapes, what different kinds of shapes can you make? You can make a lot. You can make a ton, you can make a thousand shapes. Then you have to make something that fit in those shapes. And that's how you can get yourself out of habits. And sometimes bad habits and sometimes good habits. But it's good to break out of them and just do something different. I want you to see things the way that I see them because that's the only way that I know how to teach. So I want you to do that. And then I want you to just make your own go crazy, make your own shapes, do wherever you want to do. This is exciting. This is the fun part of art, is just doing what, wherever you want to do. Alright, so what else? Let's get to the next video. Let's get to the drawing. Make sure that you download the templates. So I have my sketch shapes and I also have my finished sketches. You can use them, you can reference them, you can trace over them, whatever makes this easier for you. However you like to learn, however you'd like to draw with it. I just want you to draw and have fun, and I appreciate you being with me for class. Let's move on to the next and third video. Yet the third video, getting started. All right. I'll see you then. You can tell I don't I don't script my script these. I just like to go off the cuff. That's just my style. Okay, cut next video. 3. Getting Started: So the first thing I'm gonna do is just make some shapes. These shapes are already going to be provided to you so that you can just use these shapes to work from. Okay, so we have a bunch of shapes. Now I'm just going to organize them. I'm going to choose six of them. And then we're just going to start sketching and we're going to see what we can come up with. Okay, so these are gonna be our shapes and that's the beginning of the journey. Okay, so let's start with our first shape, sort of like a peanut shape. And you really just have to really use your creativity and just think about different shapes that can go inside of the shape. They can sort of make something, make something visually pleasing. And it will always work. You just have to humanity with Humana to scrap it and cut and do a few different types. A few different kinds, which I might have to do here. But let's see. So when I'm drawing, see this first circle, I always think about where I want the head to be and where I want everything to be facing. So let's just say that this is the, the head of the skull, the top part of the head. So I'm gonna do a line here. And I'm going to do a line here. So what that does is it makes it a 3D object now that I can, I can work with. So if that's the case, then this mid part would be sort of where the eyes are gonna go. So I'm just gonna do a kind of a light line here. And the nose would be probably around here. So I'll just do like a light circle just to sort of give me a reference of where the nose should go. So for the nose, I'm gonna do shaped like that. And I do, uh, my, my nose is all I kind of look like that. Even humans, they look like cat noses. But I always like this, this shape for a nose. Sometimes you can do the mark for the nostril. But essentially I made another shape. See the lines sort of makes it, you know, I do think in 3D when I'm doing, when I'm working in 2D. So now the next thing I want to do is sort of like the eye sockets, like just sort of figuring out the section of the head where the eyes are gonna go. So I'll just do another line here to sort of give me a frame of reference. Then I'll make my two lines underneath like this. And these circles. Notice I'm using, I'm still using these lines, these center lines. So this is the center line. So if this is one eye socket than the other ones, sort of gonna be even to that one. And then we make the two eye sockets sort of like this. And these eye socket lines like these are, these are the sheets. So now, so now let's do the eyes. So we do a circle there. I'm going to make another little line here. Let me do a circle here. These are just sort of half circles. But you notice they're all pointing in to the center spot here. Okay, I think that looks pretty good. Now you can just add some details. Like I always do. I always make those big eyelash thing is this is stuff that I normally do. That's when your style sort of comes into it. When you start doing things that you normally do, you find that you just like doing them in all your different artworks for the mouth. So we see this angle, so the mouth should be. So here's the center line, although I'm making the center line different since the nose is here, the center line for this face is probably more about here. I'll just erase it just because I'm explaining it, but it's not really that important for the mouth. So let's do a line here and let's make it go up. And we'll do a little little cheek cheek action. Then if you want, you can do like another like a lower lip just to sort of give it that little that little kick. And then we can do some eyes to another. I hear. Now eyes are tricky. This one you see is sort of in the middle and then this one is sort of on the inside part of the sky. So just, just remember that. But another trick that you can do is, although I really like those, I will, you know what I can do? That's fine. Another trick that you can do is just make a new layer and just put it underneath. And you can do your eyes on, on a layer underneath. So let's say you, you have your character looking a certain direction. So if you, if you make a new layer underneath, then you can either move them around slightly. If you want. Which always looks kinda cool. But it just gives you that, gives you that that option to not be tied down to eyes and just to work, keep working and make sure they look good because eyes are tricky. So if this character was looking off this way, then it would be, this one would be deep over here. And you see it's not completely circular. Since I haven't so far over. It's more ovular like that. Then this one would be the same, would be pretty slight because you're not going to see that much of that eye. So something like that. We can get back to my other eyes. And I liked I can't. But we'll stick with these. You know what, I'll make them make them looking at you. Looking at camera, I should say. We'll do one here. And then we'll do one there. I think that looks pretty good. So now we'll just do some eyebrows just to sort of give his, his or her face a little shape. And maybe we wanna do, we wanna do a little bit of upper lip. Just a little bit of a shade. Can do that. Maybe I just like without it. So I think that looks pretty good. So now you always want to leave some space for the forehead. So we want this shape here to be for the forehead. Got to have a forehead. You don't have to have an x on the forehead. And see how and see how with this line I sort of give the side of the face some shape. So this is like the side of the back of the skull. So now I'm just going to do just some simple ear shapes. Can do it here. Kind of an ear shape over there. And as far as hair goes, we'll just do some want such curly hair though. Let's see. What kind of here do we want for this character. Let's do, let's do some curly hair. Curly here fits this character. Really curly hair. If it's this character, let's use Disney brush. And we'll just color in this hair a little bit. Okay, so now we have our first our first face. As you can see, like I went through a lot of different hairstyles. But, you know, sometimes you just have to keep going and just keep trying new things and so you get something that you find that you like. And remember, we're constrained to these shapes. So I'm constrained to this little bit of space, but that's part of it. Trying to get something that you like that fits into these these things. 4. Pudgy Alien Face: Let's see what we can do with this. This shape will go back to Disney sketch light. Alright, so I'm doing the same thing. You can see I have this circle here. So this is going to be the front part of the head. And then we have this whole rest of the body or the face. So let's maybe give him a let's do the line is sort of make where the whole front of his face is going to be. So I'm thinking maybe a wide nose. So I'm going to do a wide circle here, which I might change. But I think I wanna do a, I think I might want to do a big open mouth. I might look cool. So maybe I'll do the mouth shape first. So this obviously is going along with this. We're making this whole thing 3D. So this goes around the front and then when it comes around the side, it goes up for the cheek. Let's make a little cheek here. So now we're just going to follow this line all the way across or all the way along the bottom. We're going to come up there and we can just cheat where the other, the other cheek is. Well, let's see. Let's cheat. So let's make some teeth. And teeth can be very complicated as well. I think I'm very, very simple. I tried to keep the teeth very, very simple. So let's do two lumps here. And then let's just do a line across like this. Now of course you have this line going through. You can erase it. Erase brush. So you can erase it if that if that bugs you. So we have the two bottom teeth they're in for here. What I'm going to start. So sort of the same thing, I just added a little tip here and then just this curve and then this curve and I'll erase inside the teeth as well. So now we have our teeth. Let's do a tongue. So for the tongue, I like to do the two section tongue. So something like this. Then I like to do like a circle like where the back of the throat is. So I'll just put these lines here to sort of be like the back of the throat just to make it like clear. So this is all the inside of the mouth. So I'm just going to color this in. I'm going to color over here as well because that's the inside of the mouth as well. And down here, we'll color this in other kind of looks like teeth, but we'll make it the inside the mouth. So this one, I want to make darker because this is going to be like sort of like the throat. So I'm using Disney or am I using? I'm using Disney brush, which is nice and textured and you can continue to go over it. It'll just get darker and darker. Make these a little darker too. So that just sort of gives like a little bit of depth, like it's going inside the mouth. Okay, So what kinda knows that we want? So normally I would do a circle. I'm just gonna do the top half because it just, just feels right. So then I'll do some sort of nostril shapes. Let's see how this looks. Like a little dinosaur sort of character. But I like it. So now that we have that, so this is the front part of the head. And I like to I like to sort of make the front part of the head including the side. It's kinda, it's kind of confusing. But here I'm going to come up and then I'm gonna go over and I'm going to come back down. So what this does is it sort of frames out the head a little bit. And in here, in this bit here within this circle, that's where I'm going to make the eyes. So I always like to make this bottom line kind of going to the nose. And again, if he has, his nose is here. So we want to just do a little bit of these would both be equal. Sort of do that eye socket. I like my eyesight gets quite big as you can see. Maybe I'll just get rid of this line and bring it down a little further down. So something like that. Now that we have the eye sockets, then we can just make our eyes. So I'm gonna make sort of like football-shaped eyes, almond-shaped eyes for him. And I'll do the same thing that I always do. I make the top really dark pink a little line above the eyelid. And I actually think I might want to make these little higher. We'll just make the eyebrows, something like that. And then you can do the thing where you make a new layer underneath if you want. Or you can just you can just give him some eyes look over like that. So what the type of head that he would have? Maybe he has he would have like horns or something. Or maybe you just have like little cute little ears. Maybe you wouldn't expect cute little ears from this character. And maybe he has little orange as well. But that's where the fun comes into it. You can make any you can mix and match. 5. Bird Face: This next shape, I immediately see a bird, like a bird's beak, but I also see the top of hair. So let's, let's first, let's sort of play out this bird shape. So if this is the beak, will bring the mouth, sort of like that. So we can try that. You can try that out. We can make a little line for the cheek. And then I would be something like that. So we do this, the I circle sort of resting right on this, right on this cheek. So I'm gonna do the line that I always do. Like so. And then I'll do the eye right in front. So we'll do the eye socket. And eventually you could erase this sketch line. But I always like to, the eye socket is very important. The space around the eye, because that is, that holds, that holds the eye. So I do like always adding this sort of eye socket type shape. So let's make the beak can be something like this. Looks decent. Need to do a little nose on the beak. And this, what do we want this to be? This conservative, be like sort of plumage. Let's do so I'll do two little hairs coming off like that. And then maybe with this, you can see I'm implying the hair or like, even like feathers. But I'm just implying it. I'm using this shape and I'm just implying these these feathers. Okay, so we have the back of the back of the cheek here. So maybe we'll give him some shape like that. I'll give them a little belly button. And so maybe his He's little babies, little hand feathers comes off like that and we'll give them another one here. Sort of like this. Maybe he has really stubby like these little stubby legs, something like that. We'll do the other eye on the other side maybe. Since it's on the other side, I'll just make it darker. Same thing with this leg, the forelegs. So I'll make it darker. Same thing with this wing. Anything on the far side? Let's make it a little darker. And then maybe the inside of his eye socket. It's a cute little bird. But just to show you the other, the other shape that I was thinking. So we'll make a new layer. And I'll just do this one quick since we've pretty much finished this one. But let's say that the head is about here. And so let's say we make noes sort of like that. And I'm gonna do the nose slower because I know knows this can be kind of difficult. And for me it's sort of muscle memory when I do them. But I don't wanna I don't wanna do that for, you know, since I'm trying to show you guys how to do certain things. So the thing that's important about the nose is the center. So this is the center. A good way to do it is to just make a circle with the shape of the nose, even if you want the nose really, really big. This. So you make that circle and then you make the center of that. So this would be the center you want to make everything sort of think in 3D. So this is the top. So if this is the top than the other, one of the nostrils might be here. And the other one, this is the top. So the other one might, it might show a little bit here. And this part is the underside of the nose. So that's why I always do this sort of line here. You'll notice when I do noses. So I drew this line here that makes the underside of the nose. And you can now go back to Disney sketch light. You can even sketch this part of the nostril and darker, but this is the underside of the nose. So now that we have that, I guess we'll keep it and since I made it really big and we'll make it let's make his mouth pretty small. Since his nose is so big. Give them a little smile. Maybe we'll make, make his mouth open. Click that, and then maybe we, maybe this is actually hair. So obviously it's a very weird shapes. So I'm just going to same thing I did with the bird. I'm sort of implying the hair. And notice how I just sort of turn it in that direction. I just sort of alternate all everything is sort of in this direction which closes that off, not closes it off, but it just gives you the impression that all of this is coming from the same direction. Same thing here. And maybe his eyes like maybe it's very slanted eyes, something like that. Something like this. I can do maybe a few little more hair plumes on top. And you can do ears. I'm gonna do the ear shape again. Because again, a lot of times when I do ears, I do them really fast. So for ears you want to make sure that sort of right at, you want it below the eyes or you want it too high, up above the eyes. Just two simple shape like this, not really. A circle comes out a little bit and then it comes a little bit closer here than I do this little, that little nugget we have in our inner ear. And then I just do this line. So I keep it very simple. I don't do I don't go crazy with the eyes. And also don't forget that you can move things around. That's the great thing about digital art. If you want to try different areas of the mouth, where the mouth is, you can always move them around and just be creative. You can make them a really small nose, really big mouth. But we already did a big mouth here, so we'll leave we'll leave that there for now. 6. Long Face: Let's work on this shape here. So this is a very long, obviously very long face. A lot of these you can sort of get away. It's like Timmy, these look like hair. So we'll see, we'll see what we do is what we can come up with. So let's start out. I think I'm going to make a really long nose. Actually almost looks like a really big nose, to be honest with you. Um, oops, what did I do? Okay, so let's figure that this is the, this is the skull here. So this is always my anchor member of the circle is always my anchor. So let's do the, let's do the lines. What we think we want the front of our shape to be. Something like that. So it does look like a nose. So maybe let's just try to accentuate that. So instead of this, the circle with a wall, it's still a circle, but it's a very elongated circle. So I just made this whole other shape here. Inside of our shape that I think I want the nose. I think I want that to be the nose. So let's see if this is the underside of the nose. Because at the bottom I always put the underside of the nose. And maybe the, maybe this is the the nostril. So this is the nostril and maybe we'll do, always do that little nostril shape there. So for the lips, I'm gonna erase a little bit of this. I'm going to bring this under see this line. This was for the whole head but since it's for the nose. So I'm just going to bring this under. So it's almost like the nose is going under. So that's, that's the sort of 3D ish, like when I, when I think about things in 3D. So this is the line that's going under. So and also for the nostril. See how I make this whole bottom plane just by adding this line here. I make this whole bottom part of the nostril and I use Disney brush just to sort of make it clear what I'm talking about. I'll make this bottom part darker. So it sort of gives, it sort of gives another dimension to the nose. And it really, really makes, it really makes a big difference when you start thinking about and adding lines like that. It might be, this nostril might be over here. Since it's further back, since it's like the back side of the nose, then i'll I'll call, I'll shade that in darker. Okay, So again, this is our anchor, anchor point here. So we want the eyes. Again, they always come to the nose, to the right, to the bridge of the nose. I'm bringing this out a little bit more because I want them to be even. And I'm just going to make a nice curve around here. This is gonna be our eye socket. So let's make, let's do a little bit of a different expression. So I'm just going to do two circles. Again. I'm using this middle line to separate these so that they're sort of even. Now I'll go and do my thing that I always do. To the other line, coming off. Sort of like that. And let's make the inside of the eye sockets like that. And we'll do a little eyebrows, just very simple. Eye socket line, eyebrow line, like so. And maybe we'll do some eyes like this. Okay, so for the mouth, I kinda feel like I do want to stick to the shape, but well, let's just stick to it. So let's say we have this shape here. And I'm going to bring it around almost like it's coming. Our lips sort of extend from our nose coming down. So I'm going to do that and then I'll do, I'm gonna do a shape underneath like its teeth like that. And I don't even know if I want to if I want to finish this like I could finish off the shape and just sort of do something like this. If I want to add onto this shape. Which is, which is fine. I kinda like those teeth, but in the spirit of the class, I'm going to try to stick to this shape, stick to what I've done here. So maybe I want to just use this little space for like a mouth. So maybe I'll just, let's see. Let's see how can I, how can I use this space here? Erase that line too. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna erase just to give me as much or actually it's on a different layer so I can't even do that. That's okay. We're going to we'll get through it. Maybe we'll just make a really tiny little mouth here. We'll make a little tiny mouth. And maybe we'll cheat up here and we'll add some, will add something, Let's add, Let's add some like a hair shape here. Maybe some ears. So something like that, which is super weird looking. But I kinda like it sometimes you get weird stuff. But let's try something else. Let's try. I kinda like that. I kinda like those teeth that I did. So how about this? Let's use this shape. Let's cheat. Let's make it a little wider since we add this extra space. We'll do what we did before. So we'll make this and then we'll and then we'll do a mouth sort of like that. Can do a lip roughly one. And then maybe we'll do let's make some teeth in there. Super weird. But I actually like, actually like really weird stylized like features like that. So it doesn't really bother me. I think, I think it's kinda cool. Maybe do like really big teeth, something like that. And then we'll do up here will do little ears. Same ear-shaped that I always do. Then maybe we'll do a hat. Maybe we'll maybe we'll do a hat. I always do the same way. I don't I don't usually do them just exactly super straight. I always put a little bit of a curve in him. He just come around the back. Like so. And maybe we'll just do something like this. Maybe there's, maybe the hair is darker. And then I'll use Disney brush and sort of color this in. And also color in the the top part of the eye socket because that's always like sunken in more in the head. We have a weird shape, but I like it. I like it. 7. Pup Face: Okay, so for the next shape, I really see a dog face. So this is obviously our anchor here and make a new layer. This is our anchor. And first and foremost, let's do that. Let's do the nose. So a lot of times for my animal noses. Let's first think about triangles. When I do them. Even though this is, this is more of a diamond shape. But always think about triangles. What I'm doing when I'm doing noses. So let's do that again just to kinda show you a little bit more. Another way. So this is, this is the thinking behind the thinking. So when I'm making, if I'm thinking of a dog, so if this is the, this is the muzzle, Then obviously the muscle is gonna be sort of kind of like this. This is sort of like the head would work. So like if I'm, you know, I always think about how everything would be. This is the side of the head. So i'm, I'm, I'm making it a 3D space. So if I'm doing the nose, the nose would be like this. It would come off like that. But then it would also come down. Then it would come back up. The nostrils would be dogs. I think dogs might have like mushroom type noses. But I just want to show you why I'm sort of thinking about this triangle shape. Because you always have to think about all the planes like this, this front section, decide section. And I've been drawing for a long time, so I think about those without having to really show it. So that's why I'm just kinda slowing down and doing a lot of these little tricks to sort of show you how I think. And again, this is our base. And another, another easy trick. Another easy way is to make the muzzle by using a circle. So again, we have the head and this will go like that. So let's just do an easy sort of diamond shape for the nose. And then here, go like this. And we'll do a little, we'll do a little mushroom knows, right? I think that's how it is. For dog. They have little mushroom noses. Do the middle part of the nose. I'm bringing those back a little bit further. So something like this. And to make it even clearer, I sometimes I shade the bottom, the bottom part, just to kinda show that, that depth. So go back to sketch light. And so here we'll make it, I'll make another little thing here for the mouth. So I'm going to use this circle for the know where to put my rest of my cheek. So I'm gonna bring this up like this. And I'm going to bring it out like that. Notice I bring it almost up to this circle, this base. So we're gonna do the same thing with the cheek that I always do. Come off like that with the cheek. Now that we have our cheek, we can make our eye socket. Notice this little, this little shape that I do with the eye socket. You can just do a semicircle around. But I like to do this little edge. I think I got that from like Aaron Blaise or something, watching some videos. But now I just do it all the time because I think he used to do it for his lines and stuff. But now I just do it all the time. I do that. So that's the eye socket. We have the cheek here, which is gonna make them very happy. And so notice we have this round eye socket, so I'm going to match that on this side. So it sort of looks like the same thing. Even though this is the head here. Want to have that same thing. So here's how this is all cheek. So maybe we'll, we'll sort of imply that that's like, you know, some hair coming off. And dogs have like these, they have like black like lower lips. So we'll make this really thick here. And okay, this looks pretty good so far. So now let's just add an I O, we should add an ear to, we definitely should have ears, but there's no space for years. Maybe we'll give them a little ears. Now. We'll just, we'll just we'll save them the dignity of giving him such small ears will give me ears like this. So normally we would make the back shape of the head, but we could, we could always do that if we make the eye smaller. So maybe let's try that. Let's give, let's, let's make, let's make his eyes sort of small and towards the front. I'll do my thing that I always do. And might be a little too. Let's see. It doesn't look too bad. And I just wanted to extend the back of his head a little bit and will make his ears sort of come down. Like so. Just so you just really Haley Haley's has some ears. Notice sometimes I'll just do the same shape, but I'll just put it in a slightly different position. And that's the beauty of sketching. It doesn't always have to be the same. So maybe we'll make the other eye and we'll make the other. I feel like it should be a little bit lower. So that should actually be around here. Maybe we'll do the other cheek like that and give them a few little pops of hair there. So something like that. I like it. And we'll color this whole know since his nose would be darker anyway. If you can color the whole thing and we can just color the bottom one a little bit darker. And of course we'll do the inside of the top of the eye socket. And even this half, we can do all this half a little bit darker, equal to the inside of the ear, a little bit darker. 8. Warrior Face : Not least, I sort of see this sort of grand, sort of like a, like a warrior. So let's make this the center on our base. Let's do this line will sort of give us the eyes. And let's do a nice little semicircle that'll be the top of the eye sockets like that. Let's give her just a triangle nose. And I feel like she would be She's like a warrior or something. So we'll do the math. We'll do the mouth open. We want her to be angry. Then we'll do we'll do like this, something like this. And I really use these, the eyebrow lines to really shape the eyes and to really give that expression in the eyes. So let's do another sort of line, sort of pointing towards the nose like we always do. We can make the underside of the nose here. And we'll sort of just kinda color that in a little bit. So since she's got this expression, Let's see what do we wanna do here? Let's make the eyes very slanted, very closed. I'll do the same thing. Really thick eyelash. I'll make these stick to, these will be the eyebrows. And we'll do this little line across just to sort of give this some, some space here. And I wonder looking this way, I think. So I'll just make both the eyes at the corners. I for both the pupils at the corners, teeth. I'm going to keep it simple. Round there. Maybe we'll make the too little, the two little bits like so. And the tongue will just do a little, little bit like that. We don't have to go too crazy and we'll just color in the inside of the mouth. And so for this face, I'm going to keep it really, really simple. So we'll do straight lines coming towards the bottom of our circles. So straight lines like this. And then I'll just angle it out like that. So for the hair, since this really looks like hair, Let's do, let's do a little neck. We'll do a little neck like this. And then we'll do so we'll turn this into, let's see. So I'm gonna do these shapes like that. And what's nice about this is you can sort of make it. So I probably didn't even need to put this line. Let's start again and let me start. Let me do it slower. Although I hopefully you guys are loose enough to make you can just sort of like play around with this. But let's think about this. So her forehead would be here. Let's make, let's make the lines for her forehead. So this would be the forehead, which means that the hair would be starting in the middle. So I'll do a line coming off like that. I'm going to do a shape here like that. So I've just accentuated this shape. So that's the first shape. The second shape, I'm going to come up like this. It's going to come down like that. Maybe we'll make another line like that. And then maybe we'll just go right into the shape. Or maybe we can just go right into it. Here. We'll just make some lines that come off from that front section and then just go over to the back. And notice I'm not even finishing these because it's a lot of it is just implied. So don't think that you have to finish everything and make it perfect. These are sketches. These are the beauty of sketches. So up here, again, here's our center line where the hair starts. So I'm going to come like this, make a really heavy line. So this is gonna be the shape. This is all underneath. So this can all be underneath. And let's use Disney brush for anything underneath. I'm just going to color it a darker color. Just so it shows my point of the, of the depth. And even you can do a little, you can do some strands that come off. Can probably just some strands that come off like that. Now here we have all this hair that we can just take advantage of like this. And just want to follow. And maybe let's see. Like she would have some sort of armor or something on. So let's make like this. And I think this is, I think this is cool. And we'll do some ears here. And maybe like here it will just imply some arms with some armor on them. Something like this. I'm going to include all these too. So you can obviously, if you want to do what I do. But the most important thing for these things is to really get you out of trying to maintain certain rules. Because you can think about, you can think outside of the rules. And sometimes doing things like this. You'll make characters that you wouldn't normally make if you're thinking straight, hearing me, like if you're just thinking of them, you probably wouldn't make characters like this. So it's a good place to sort of warm up and to get your mind loose and get your mind ready. I love doing things like this. This is especially good with like when you have art block, just make shapes and just make characters in those shapes. I think it really helped. It's, it's really fun. Allow yourself to make mistakes. Allow yourself to just scrap it and just start again. Don't be, don't be afraid of just just starting over, starting from scratch until you get something you like. But yeah, hopefully this was fun. Hopefully you liked it. I really had a good time making these and I hope that I didn't go too fast. Just stay loose with it. Stay loose. Try things. Try to make different shapes than I and I've made. Make your own shapes. There's so much you can do. But I just wanted to do this exercise because it really helps with our block and it really helps with just loosening up your mind so that you can be creative. And you can just start thinking more outside the box. Because sometimes we can get really, really locked in and we can really, really pigeonhole ourselves. So it's good to every now and again step out of that and just do some loose fund. Our work. 9. Thank You! : All right guys, thank you so much for taking the class. I really had fun drawing these, these character designs. It's a challenge if you're not always getting like commission work and professional work, sometimes you don't really get challenged like enough. You can get bored and you can get tired of drawing certain things and you can get frustrated. But you don't really get challenged. And this is a way to sort of challenge yourself. And this is a way, even, even for me, it's, sometimes it's a challenge. Sometimes I'm forced to cheat and make it the best that it can be an honestly, it just is what it is. Sometimes it is what it is. That's, that's where your magic comes into it as the artist, sometimes you have to make executive decisions and you have to do we have to do, to make the art look, right? I hope you had fun with this. I hope that you were creative and I hope that you picked up some things that I do. And I hope you picked up some of my habits because that's how that's how I got to where I am today. That's how I learned. I have to pick up what people are doing when I watch other artists that I really like, I pick up things that they're doing, which I'm sure you've heard in this class. Even the little, the little I think that I did that I got from Aaron Blaise. I take things from other artists, artists that I like use what they do. That's how, that's how I learned. I laser-focused on every little thing that they're doing, why they're doing it. Even if I can't figure out why they're doing something, I might do it ten times and be like, Oh, okay, this is why I like the way this looks because sometimes it's just very small things. But anyway, I don't I don't even know what I'm rambling about. I appreciate you taking the class. This was fun. I hope you got something out of it. I appreciate you guys. I love that you're here with me drawing, please upload them to class. I would love to see them. You can say what's up to me on Instagram, drug-free to aid. You can say what's up to me in the Facebook group. Also, make sure you follow me on YouTube. I do a lot of live videos, 2D work and 3D work. Because I love 3D now. I just got into it last year. I love it. But I also do drawing stuff. I also, I still draw animals. I do lots of stuff on YouTube live, so please catch me there and then you can chat with me live. So that will be fine. Alright? So as always, keep drawing, keep sculpting, and I will catch you all in the next video. Peace.