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1. Introduction: Do you want to
learn how to design a cartoon creatures that are unique and memorable
like Pokemon. In this class, you'll
be introduced to the fun world of
creature design by taking two existing
characters and mashing them up to
make a new character. In this series of lessons, you'll learn to draw
an animal type bodies, combined character features and decorate your creature
with color and line art. By the end of this class, you'll know the mashup technique for designing unique characters. You're welcome to follow
along with me step-by-step. If you are a beginner. Otherwise, feel free to choose your own Pokemon or
character inspiration. I'll be drawing digitally, but you can work in the
medium of your choice. I'd love to see what
you create at the end. So please share your
artwork on our community. Have fun in class.
2. Drawing the Body: We're going to be drawing
some Pokemon today. I'll be focusing on mainly
like simple shapes, like when we draw
the human body, what kind of simple shapes and 3D shapes do we want to use? And of course, they can all be different because there
are so many kinds of Pokemon, but it's a good starting point. And at this point, if
you guys like Pokemon, play Pokemon or no, any Pokemon, I want you to start thinking about try and get an idea in your head of
what you want to do. Because of course you can
always do what I wanna do, but it's always
better if you do what you want to do, right? So, yeah, just for
some examples, my sylvian mashup here, Jovian and Princess Peach. So that's if you guys want to mash up like
a human character, I'm totally fine with that. And I have another one of generals from One
Punch Man and luxury. His hair looks kinda silly
now that I look at it. But yeah, so those are a
couple of human examples. I did another one. This one is of luxury. And then grim snarled
the new, new Pokemon. Because I like both
of them very much. So as you can see, there's like, I tend to prefer the Pokemon that look more like animals, like
four-legged animals. But there are so many kinds. There are some that
look more like human, some that are just a
ball, aka jiggly puff. So I want you to think about, well, what do you wanna do? It doesn't have to be exactly
Pokemon and poke them on. Like I said, it can
be just a mash up, but I want you guys to
use Pokemon as the base, like where to start with. So what I might do
is start with an EV. Because if you're ever a
little stuck with Pokemon, because there's so many of
them like over 800, I think. So as you guys may
or may not know, Evie has a lot of EV, illusions of how it can evolve until a bunch
of different types. So you could either, if you want to start with EV, EV is pretty, pretty slick. You can create a
new type for it, or you can take another Pokemon
and mash it up with EVs. That is what I'm gonna do. Because i2, I'm overwhelmed
by 800 plus book. Let's just draw an EV first. It's a good starting point. So what I would do when I'm
looking at the picture, I want to start with
basic shapes as usual. So I'm going to start with
some construction thinking of my shapes. So maybe I think what
I'm gonna do because I just remember that
I really like Gumi. I might I'm gonna do a
mash-up of EV and Gumi. So what would evolving into
Gumi or Boudreau look like? So what I'm gonna
do is start with a simple four-legged
animal construction, but I'm gonna be tweaking it. So IBI looks more
like grownup, Right? Just like the evolutions. So I'm starting with a circle
similar to a human head. I can add a muzzle. Because when I look
at the evolutions, the muzzle is a little bit
longer than on EV cars. It's very cute. For the body. What we
want to do is draw, like draw two circles. Again, we're focusing on
some construction lines. And I'll leave the
second part up to you. If you put a circle up here, this is more for
a standing pose, but if you put the
circle down here, they're gonna be sitting. So I'm thinking,
since I'm mashing up my EV with Gumi for Gu Dre. I'm trying to picture in my head what a
standing pose work better or a sitting pose? I'm gonna go with a standing
pose because Gumi is very gooey, very drapey. And I want to show that
like goopy jelly effect. So I have this,
these two circles. I have the head, the torso, and the hips, the pelvis. So what I wanna do next is kinda connect the outline
of these circles. So now I have a neck. And then when I connect
these two circles, I get a body. Very slowly. Don't forget
the other side of the neck. So once I have my
circles connected, I can erase these guidelines. I'm going to use more guidelines
as well for the legs. So I could have the
arm stick out here. And you just want
to think about, remember these cone shapes. It's the same thing like when we were drawing the human body. You want to think about these 3D shapes or
like the shapes. If you want to think really, really simply think about this 2D really long
trapezoid or a rectangle. I can sketch one here. And another one for
the second leg. Now there's a little bit of perspective involved when you're drawing an animal or a creature, four-legged creature
in this pose. Let me give that another shot. The arms looked a little off. The ligand, the front will
be a little bit longer. So I'm just going to
fix this up here. Then here I can erase
some of the guidelines. I'm okay with that. So at this stage, all we're really looking for is like a starting
base, starting pose. And then we can add all
the details on top. It's just like when we're
drawing a human body. We want to construct it
first and then add a phase, add hair at details, et cetera. So I have the two front arms and notice that I didn't
draw any feet yet. I'm going to draw all
the feet together. I'm going to draw the
hind legs and next. So hind legs on animals
like dogs and cats, their legs are a little different or very
different from humans. You can use a really big circle
to represent their thigh. And then that rectangle shape here is a little
bit on a diagonal. Because the way the, the bones in them are laid
out a little differently. They're like going
here and here. I find that I drew this
leg a little too inward, so I'm going to make it
stick out some more. Get a little bit straighter. Then again, don't worry. If you're not sure about
the overall shape, you can always change it. I'm going to draw the other leg. The other leg, you want to
imagine the same shape, the same circle, rectangle. The only thing is that
try drawing through, drawing through the body. Also one thing,
remember what I said? Just to notice that the
feet on the far side, they look a little shorter because of perspective
being put in play. That's how we can
tell that the feet on this side are a
little bit further. They're not as close to us. Okay? So for pause, you just want to think
about like this shape. It's like a baby shoe
that I think about it. So you're, if you're the type
of artist who really likes drawing human characters
and only human characters. Drawing something like an
animal might be difficult. So if this is your first time
ever, don't be discouraged. If you're having some trouble. It just takes practice. The feet walk and I
can always change it in my outlining stage. As usual. Excuse me. So this is an okay. Starting point for me.
3. Creating the Hybrid Design: Yeah, so this is what we have
as a base so far from here, I want to think about the
traits that Evie has, as well as the second
Pokemon I'm going to use. So I have FE here and we want to look at distinguishing features. Like Evie has a
really fluffy color. He has really pointy ears. So those are, those are
distinguishing traits. So the distinguishing
features that I see in Gumi is the cheeks, the green cheeks, the
whole purple color. So when I'm coloring my mashup, I might want to use
gummies color palette. So it's the shape of an
EV, evolution at least. But the color of Gumi and some other characteristics
like these antennas. Let's start with the face. So when we're drawing a face, we can find the center
line of the head first, just like when we're
drawing a human character. So you can go about drawing
eyes in 23 different ways. So one is using the eyes of one of the first Pokemon that you're mashing it up with, or the second one or three, you can come up with
your own style, right? So I'm just going to start
with the guidelines. So gummies eyes are
actually two simple because they're just dots and
I don't really want that. So I might go for something
like Woodruff ice. There are more circular and I might put my own
spin on it as well. So once I have my guidelines, I can start by trying
a simple shape. I like to define that upper eyelid because
I find without it, it's just a circle. This is a three-quarter
view on the head. So i means the I on
the other side will be a little smaller
or a little cut-off. I'm gonna keep
adjusting the shape of the eyes until I'm happy. I want to make sure that
they're fairly even. If the overall
height is the same. I find that router has a really wide eyed look for a lot of whites
of the eye showing. I want to move that knows
a little bit higher. So if you ever want to make like a cute looking character, one way to easily
make your character Cute is kind of squishing
their features together. So like the eyes and the nose and the mouth are all
really close together. Fun little head is a little
too long for my liking so I can make the back look
a little bit bigger. I'm going to add the
antennas that gooey house. As I'm drawing
this, I'm wondering if you should still have ears. Since I am using
digital art, I can, I can easily pop in some ears and see if I like
how that looks. Yeah, I think it looks okay. It just looks more like
a like a deer or an LLC, which can be its own luck. I'll just have some temporary
ears as a sketch for now. And I can't forget the cheeks and the little goopy. Goopy line that actually
starts at the mouth. I'm going to use a
different color again. I can add a little
bit of the drips. Now I'm just looking at other features that
goo DRA house, but I'm kind of using
mostly they're, they're both in the same
evolution line, so it's ok. So I'm looking at the tail. I want to incorporate that next because it's another
distinguishing feature. So I can just start with a
cone shape and then it curves and circles. When I'm sketching,
I'm not too worried about it looking
super, super clean. Based on the contour
of the body, I need to reposition the tail because
there's a pattern that runs on under the mouth and
then the chest going around. And then remember drawing through drawing
through your picture. So when I'm drawing
through my picture, I can see that this
pattern that I draw the tail doesn't line
up with the body. So I'm going to reposition,
reposition that line. So it's good to
fix things, guys, even though you're looking at the the thing you need
to fix and you're like, God, it's going to
take some time. It's better to do it anyway
and spend the extra time. Because in the end it
will look like it'll make more sense. It'll look better. Still looks a little
funky. Shape wise. Can always fix it
in the line work. I just wanted to look
at the arms and legs. What do they look like?
They look really pointy. So I might adjust the shape of a foot. So yeah. I don't mind what I have so far. I quite like it. Very cute. I'm going to have to do
some more fixing because I don't really like this font. But again, just a reminder, you can always change it. Just like I'm changing
it right now. Just try to make these changes
before you start outlining any big changes you want
to kind of sketch that in. But if you want to fix things
during your line work, just make sure they're
like small things. I want to take
another look at EV, EVs ears because I might want to fix the shape of
these ears so they don't look super,
super dear life. They still look like, but I've kind of grown
attached to that charm now. The charm of the deer ears. Yeah, I am happy with that. So I can add some more of those, like trippy, trippy effects.
4. Outlining and Colouring the Character: Okay, So I would say that I'm happy with my sketch and then
I can start outlining it. I outlined one, I am going
to outline the other one. I'm doing the antennas
on the other side. I'm, what I'm gonna be doing is outlining the head as well. And then I can erase
some bits over there. Since I'm using digital art. Just going to outline
the ears now. So remember what I said about fixing things and a line art. So I find that the arms and
legs are a little too long. So I'm going to adjust
that as I'm outlining. Turn off my sketch to
see what I have so far. I don't like that,
so try it again. Oh, I never outlined
the Shiny, shiny thing. You're gonna do that now. Here we go. While drawing a
circle in one shot. It's really something else. So if you're drawing
any circles on paper, just remember, take your time. Drawing circles digitally is
kind of a different story. So I'm taking a look
at these circles here. I might just keep it as one. The one circle on the cheek. Because it's getting a little
too crowded on my drawing. That's what I have so far. My outline looks a lot nicer
compared to my sketch. It's nice and clean. I'm gonna do the hind legs. I want to make sure
that the legs so I'm drawing are consistent. So that just means I want
them to look the same. In terms of the
width, the height. I don't want to have
one leg really, really wide and the other
one really, really skinny. I'm almost done outlining my I don't really
know what to call it. I'll I'll think of
a name eventually. But for now, to save
myself from embarrassment, I don't want to come
up with something just yet for a name. So I'm just going to draw
the little goopy bits in my head. I'm like, hmm,
that's a weird name. I do not want to save that because it sounded embarrassing, but now I've said it a Gumi on. It just sounds like a like a lazy and names like there wasn't much thought
put into Gumi on. Okay, So my outline is done. I'm just gonna do
some quick coloring because just to save
time really quickly, want to look at the
colors. Gu DRA has. Boudreau slash Gumi, can make
most of it a light purple. I have a really tiny Gumi
figurine on my monitor. I don't even have a Gumi
like in in my game. I don't even have fun because
it's a shield exclusive, so I don't have gloomy. My friend owns it and
wants to give me a gamete, but I need to renew my Nintendo
Internet subscription. I'm too lazy. So I have the two main color. Green is important. The green cheeks. Green cheeks green.
That's right. Doesn't have a no.
So I'm wondering what color should the nurse be? Maybe green or dark dark purple. Yeah. Let's try a dark purple. That's okay. That's acceptable. Inside of the ears can
be dark purple as well. I'm just going to color in
these little goofy bits. The goopy bits are just going to erase
them for some blending. Okay. There we go. I'm just gonna change
the color of my outline. Yeah. Thank you guys. Thanks for joining me today. I'm going to end the class here. Yeah.
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