Draw Your Own Kaiju Monster

1. 1 intro kaiju: Hey, have you ever want to draw your own kaiju monster? This is your opportunity. I'm going to walk you through it step by step, all the way from the beginning to the very end stages. A kaiju is a gigantic monster. Think something like Godzilla, King Kong, Gda Rodan. Amazingly fun to draw, but some people don't know how to do it. And if that's you stick around for the entire lesson, we are going to go through the idea phase. So basically what it resembles, what kind of creature it might be, where is it from? We're going to go through that generation idea phase together. At the same time, you're going to watch me create my own as well. Then we're going to move on to the second phase which is the thumbnail phase. The idea of the thumbnail phase is to get out the design of your creature general like body type. We're going to be doing that together as well. I'm going to teach you two amazing ways to do it. Then we're going to move on to the main pose, how I lay out the main pose of the creature. Once we have these ideas set, then the final line art, which you will watch me do as well. This entire thing, by the way, is you're going to watch me do my own creature, and at the same time you're going to do yours, which is amazingly fun, and I want to see you post it as well. And then the last video of the entire thing, we're going to name your Kaiju. Name your own Kai Ju. And I'm going to show you how I generate ideas for that as well. So it's a really fun process. I think this is one of the funnest lessons I've ever done. And that's it. Let's just hop right into the video and you're going to learn a whole lot in a short amount of time. Let's do it. 2. Your Ideas! : Okay, so we're going to start on paper Before we ever get to the drawing part, right, We're going to do this together. You're going to watch me do it. And I want you to do one as well and post it in the project section. I'll put that there. Let's go over the ideas. What are some things you should think about just to give you some base ideas? Number one, I think there's a list of a couple of things we can go through to find out more about your ju, to narrow it down, let's go over body type. Is it going to be an invertebrate? Is it, you know, something with a spine, like a lizard or a monkey? Right? Or a wolf or anything like that? Or is it going to be is it going to be more of a octopus or a slug? Something with no spine. Something with an exoskeleton, maybe a bug, something like a crustacean. And when you do that, we come to the natural thing. Is it animal like? Right? What animal does it resemble? Some don't resemble any animals. But it gives you a good start to think of like an animal that your Kaiju can resemble. Your big monster can resemble, obviously we look at Godzilla, he looks like a lizard, right? And he also looks like a combination of a lizard and like a stegosaurus or something like still lizard like when you look at King Kong, obviously he's a giant gorilla. Thinking of other ones, like Dan sometimes looks like he looks like a Pterodactyl sometimes and then sometimes look more like an eagle. It just depends what version of him or like hawk, uh, maybe some sort of phoenix thinking of page that game Rampage. There's like a wolf character in there. I forgot his name. But a lot of these tend to be very similar to when you look at Kaiju, say maybe big foot. That's not totally an animal. I mean it is an animal. It's a cryptozoology thing, right? But it kind of leads into that natural question. Maybe what animal does it resemble? Or a mixture of animals. Think of that. Another thing to think of is this is from, where is your air Kaiju? Earth Kaiju from outer space U. Where is Kaiju from? Thinking of the backstory is going to influence how your character ultimately looks like. This is like the funniest part. Sometimes I think for me is coming up with all that stuff. Just play into that idea. Ask yourself these questions. I would say body type and that can relate into what animal is it like, or a mixture of animals. It's a like, where are they from? Think of something like Godzilla versus space Godzilla. Godzilla to me looks more like from Earth to me. When you look at something like space Godzilla, he's got like the crystals on the shoulders and he's got this bizarre fixture in his head. It looks more extra terrestrial to me, even down to like I would say, monster zero, right? Gda, the three headed lizard that looks extra terrestrial as well. To me thinking about their backstories and where they're coming from, it can play a big part in what they look like. Let's think about, see if I was to throw on one more thing in there, okay? I would think about their temperament. You know, this is getting deep in there, right? Temperament are a good guy, are they a bad guy, Maybe not even so much. Good guy or bad guy, are they predatorial? Or I wouldn't say they're prey because I haven't seen a single Kaiju that's prey, right? Maybe. I don't know. Obviously looks like a predator too. But you think about temperament is, are they friendly? Like Godzilla. He sometimes will save the world and sometimes he does not. All right. You know, I would say King Kong's temperament, especially in the new movies has almost always been very friendly. Relatable gorillas are, you know, I guess, very close to humans, so he's got a lot of expression in his face. Think about stuff like that, their temperament. And it might also influence how bad guy of a look they have as opposed to not. Maybe there's more angles and sharp, maybe a lot more like sharp edges around them when they're more like evil or bad guy or predatorial. Then maybe they're a little bit more round and soft or at least friendlier looking when their temperament is like chill. Maybe they're just an animal trying to get by or something like that like. Think of something like Frankenstein, which I guess leads into the whole King Kong story. But hopefully that makes sense. So let's go through this together. Okay, I'm going to go through my list. Okay, I'm going to create a character for you. And then you're going to create your own as well. And I'll want you to post it. Okay, so let's jump into the next video. I'm going to talk about each one of these. Okay, so now we're going to get into my example, which again, you should be doing your own as we're doing this or think about it afterward. So this is like the fun part for me. So body type, what is it that I want? And I'll walk you through what I'm thinking, right, for me. Body type, I really like gorilla type body types for one. But I don't want it to be a gorilla. Right? Because that's just cant kong. Or you could vary it up. I could vary it up but I'm thinking of that body type with the large like arms out in the front right there, you know, like where it's like the way gorillas walk, those silverback gorillas. Awesome. I love that. Look, I want that gorilla gorilla walk or body type then that plays into that animal. Like right off the bat it's going to have gorilla body. Okay? You know, obviously you can brainstorm bazillion things and you can cross off whatever you don't want, right. This is just me. I just like that right off the bat. I could have written like three or four maybe. I want like a snake body type or a tiger body type or something like that. But I like the gorilla body type a lot. But I'm also a big fan of what do you say this giant horns for example. Like horns of like a bull. I want like bullhorns on there. I know I want that bullhorns. I want the face of, doesn't have to be specific, but I also want like a reptilian vibe to it. Maybe something reptilian. Reptile with the skin. I prefer scales. Stuff like that. Scales, All right? This could take care of 1.2 right there. This is what I have in my mind. I don't know what that's going to be. We'll figure it out in the next stage as we're going through it. At least we're going through mine. Where is he from? I know a lot of them come from the center of the Earth. I don't want him coming from the ocean because if he was coming from the ocean depths, he'd have to have more of a fish kind of thing going on. I know they all kind of travel through the ocean, but by the way, like write down comments to me as I'm thinking of ideas like let me know your ideas. In the comment section below, I want you to maybe like pick at my ideas a little bit. Like hey, what do you think about it? Or is there another character you'd think it's similar because if it's too similar to another character, you can always like, you know, tweak it a little bit. If someone's like, hey, it's like this, you can tweak it to fit, you know, your own. I know I just say the center of the Earth. But he kind of has to be somewhere underground. I don't know where. Maybe it doesn't have to be the center of the Earth. He's got to be underground though. I don't want him to be alien maybe in the ancient world, which is the same thing though. Ancient world, I guess I got vibes like that. Maybe like something ancient. Meaning passed 100 years ago, maybe Roman coliseum, something like that. That's the stuff that comes to my mind. But he's come from the ground or at least be terrestrial to this planet. He has to be from Earth. That's kind of what I'm thinking. But is he from the jungle? I'm thinking he's got to be from the mountain area. But the girls aren't from the mountains, are they? No. I'm going to say it's got to be the jungle. Honestly, I'm going to have to pick one. I'm doing this quicker than I normally would because this is a demonstration. So these are my little attributes right there. Underground, maybe underground in the jungle. Maybe like from a cave. Right, Exactly. Cave in the jungle. That could be something temperament, he has got to be mean. I want him to be mean. I want a bad guy, I want to predator. There's all that stuff. I love that. Look, I don't know if I spelled that wrong, but that one's easy. Personally, we're not going to name him till the very end. I don't know. I know we could dame him beforehand, but you're going to name your at the very end after you're done drawing him, unless you have a name in mind already. But for me, I'm going to name him at the very end. And we're going to go through that in the video too, But these are my attributes just to go through them really quick. Gorilla. Okay, so three animals I want to combine. Gorilla, I want the body gorilla. I want like the bull horns on his head. I don't know how big or how small go to make those. He's going to have like reptilian skin. That's what I want. He's going to be from either maybe in a cave in the jungle, right underground. So like a cave, it could be underground right there in a mountain. And from the ancient world maybe. But I guess that's irrelevant, right? Because all these monsters are like ancient. I want his temperament to be mean. I want to be a bad guy. I want to be a predator, like this thing that people fear. That's redundant, right there. Any mean. There you go. This is mine. You come up with a list of yours and post them in the comments below. That'd be really fun to go through this step by step together. Okay, let's move on to the next stage. 3. Thumbnail Your Creature!: Okay, so right now before we look up, you know, references or anything like that, I'm going to do ideations. I recommend you do the same thing and post them below in the comments. I don't know if you can post pictures in the comments but, or in the project area. For the actual stuff, I suggest two different ways. Number one, you just start doing silhouettes. You can do this. I'm doing it in marker just to show you more. But you can also do it in pencil. Doesn't matter. It doesn't really matter. You can do it in pen. So there's two ways I do ideations. I do either. I'm not actually doing ideation for my own thing, I'm just, well, I guess I right here, a scribble method, right? I'm just scribbling it in here and I'm thinking head, torso, legs over here, some like that. You have that scribbly method, right? That's what I use. A scribble, I would say that's a good one. If you prefer another one, you can use the silhouette. You just do some similar but using maybe the side of the marker, the side of the pencil, whatever is that you prefer, you are coming up with a straight up silhouette of your creation, whatever that may be. The things I don't like about the silhouette though, as much like I can recognize this as the head right on front of the shoulder over here, if you're thinking of the head right here. But over here it's like you have to make concessions because it'll completely block out that area. It's a little bit more limited, I think personally when you do silhouettes, but it looks stronger. Have you noticed that it gets the idea across quicker? You can do a combination of both. You can do one of each. That's two ways I would do it. Method one, scribbles, method two. Silhouette, one or the other. I'm going to go over maybe a little bit of both. We'll see. Let's go over mine. And I'm thinking of gorilla type body, right? Is that what we're doing here? Gorilla body reptile. The reptile stuff is probably not going to come out. And then the horns, I'm going to think of something like and again, just scribble. Not overthinking. This is nothing to do with the final. Right. There's all just like loose ideas. I'm just pooping out whatever I can from my mind. Doesn't have to be anatomically correct. Doesn't matter. Don't think about any of that. I'm thinking, okay, this guy is going to have big horns, right? Stands like a gorilla. Maybe guy's legs back here and maybe his arms like over there. Right? I'm trying to make it readable too because a lot of ideations, you can read them sometimes, right? I'm thinking something like that. Let me, let me go wild with the horns. Let's say over here, let's just say it's humongous horns. Again, your process can be totally, it's going to be different for whatever giant monster you want to make. I'm just saying from the notes I had, right? That's what I'm pulling from my personal notes. Remember that? Always keep those notes around. By the way, let me have them. 1 second. So, like these notes, right? These are the ones I made in the last video. Keep yours, you know, kind of handy because do not forget that what you're doing. It's easy to kind of forget. So let's just say we go over here and maybe it's a little bit more upright over here, the proportion is a little bit different. We've got like a smaller chest. Don't worry about making a good pose or anything like that. You're just trying to read it to kind of get some of the proportions across. Like it looks like a baby or something right there, right? Maybe that's one right there. Right? Let's do another one over here. Let's see. Yeah, Probably going to lean toward making the head maybe wider. Maybe the head will be really wide and the horns can be super thick. Like one of my favorite movies with Tim Curry where he was the devil. I think it was legends, right? He has these humongous wild horns where I'm like, what? That was amazing. And maybe he has like a were like the Scrible method I think is a little bit better aware of. Maybe his shoulders are over here very high up, right? Like maybe he's got like these football football shoulders of thing. Then I think I'm never going to pull away from the forum has got to be long like a gorillas. Because again, I want that gorilla body. Can't wait for the last video, close to the last video where I'm going to name this guy. I don't know what, maybe after I design him. And I'm going to talk about a method of naming characters too, so stick around for that. But yeah, like I said in the description by the way as well, because description comment in the comment section. I want you guys feedback for example. I don't know. What method do you guys like? Do you guys like the scribble method or do you guys like a more shadowy method? This is closer to that, Right. I got, let me do a little bit more. Maybe more of a side view here if it's totally the side. All right. Let me see. Gorillas tend to be plant to grade, which is interesting if you don't know what that is. When you look at a dog, you look at a cat. Have you noticed their heels don't touch the ground when they walk? They have. They're basically walking on their tippy toes. That's called Digi grade. It helps you run faster. I don't just more efficient for them to run a plant. Our touch the ground when makes a little bit slower. Gorillas have what we have their they walk on their heels. I want more like a hunched over like that kind of thing. Right? Whatever shows the pose, better to be honest. I'm really digging this pose right here. The side view. If I could just turn that a little bit toward us, right? To show off to show the character. Do I want to tail? I never thought about that. Lizards have a tail. I don't want to like a long tail. I just want to have, You don't want to be Godzilla or anything, you know what I mean? But I want to have something. See, this is what I mean by you're working out ideas as you're doing this process. I think I like this one right here. I'm going to take this guy and I think I'm going to turn him around. I dig this hunched over thing going on, actually, quite a lot. Something like that. A little bit of. And I would say, look here as well, right? Little bit animated. I want to thin waist. I got to thicken out his legs just for physics. I mean, you don't have to do this, but I don't know, like these things are so huge, right? You just feel like they have to have like a lower body to carry themselves. But I want something like this and maybe a little bit of a tail back there. Not much of one though sticking out. But yeah, I'm going to lean on this one right here and obviously these are quicker than they normally would. I think these two are my winners. I don't know what if you think so. See like I had to work my way there and obviously I'm doing quicker because we're demoing here. But if I was doing this on my own, I'd probably take my time and really dig into that. But we will dig into that in the following video, so. All right, let's hop into the next video. And what do I do when I take, I already got my pose, my general proportions right here. What do I do with that? Now we're going to grab our references, start going into detail. 4. Your Kaiju Framework!: Okay, so next stage is I'm going to show you how I do it. You can do it anyway you want. You can do it with pencil. But the way I like to do this is I'm taking my pose, okay? And I'm probably going to kind of flip at the other direction, to be honest. I'll keep it here as a guide with me. I kind of tore it out, see like the guide. And I'm going to use this as a kind of reference to my final pose, per se. I'm thinking in simple shapes first. Again, I'm going to do this in layers right off the bat, I'm thinking like, all right, we're going to have maybe the head shape over here somewhere. I'm just going to form a simple shape rectangle for the head. Pretty much. I'm going to go over over here. I'm thinking of the entire, I would say think of the shoulder. One thing that changes from this pose, other than I'm reflecting it is I want his shoulders on front. That's way more gorilla like I want that ball. That shoulder, he's going to be looking in this direction over here. But I want that ball that should coming in there. I'm going to go over here in the framework and I'm thinking about where the elbow is going to be. Maybe something like that. All right. This is elbow. I would say the end of his hand is right there. Normally with gorillas, for example, gorillas I think walk on their knn what do you call it, The fist. They walk on their knuckles, if that makes sense. Like this. And not on their knuckles. Walk on the hand knuckles. That's something that is something to remember and that's something that I learned before. And we're going to go over here on this side, let's see, Ball that other far shoulder over here. Well, I'm thinking of that chest area first. I want that chest area to look that torso, that rib cage to be something like this. I want the head to be smaller because I wanted to emphasize how big that chest area is over here. The hand is out there, tripoding his hand over there. Same thing over here. Again, I'm being a little bit scribbly, but since this is underneath my final, mostly final pose, I'm going to be doing that. Then again, try to find that waste. You're thinking a lot in three D, I'm thinking of very simplistic shapes. If you want to learn more about this drawing anything in simple shapes, that it's also over there. I have a course on that, You guys can check that out in the same realm here. If you have any questions, ask me below. This is very much a participatory thing. I really want you to participate and I want to connect with you. The more you post over here, I'll answer as many questions as you have. Again, this is just the first pass of the final pose over here. I would say his legs going to be back there. Well, let me see. I want him to bend at the waist a little bit more. I want the leg over here, somewhere in the back. This is the pelvis area. This is the torso rib cage area. Maybe you're going to be able to see some of the leg coming over here, because this right here is going to be huge. His front arm, I'm thinking about everything as like a skeletal system because then you can throw cool stuff over it. That's the idea. You also going to remember that your final pose will be less dynamic than your sketch, just the way it is. I don't know why it's like that. I'll probably move his head to down here and see how I draw like a skeletal system right there. I'm going to make those tubes. Now over here, the form. And he's got to have like these huge mitts, right? Again, this stage is much different than it is not much different then the stuff we kind of went through before. Pretty much. And by this time I'm kind of using the reference for the poses, stuff like that. You'll see the reference I have over on the left. I would say grab your reference and put it on the left side. It's just for inspiration or little stuff like that, you don't have to look right at it. But normally the way you use reference is you go do your own thing, and as you're working you're like, oh man, what does that look like? How's a gorilla stand, Stuff like that. That's what you use it for. How does this, you're using it for help, but that's it really, it's a little bit of a guide if you get lost. But the idea, most of it's just go my own. So I got this pretty well down the torso, little bit bigger. I don't want butt to stick out a little bit more. I think that would make a lot more sense. I have this and this is what I normally do. Okay, I want you to see this. I have regular printing paper completely, like straight up out of the computer printing paper. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab one. That's also why I do it in marker by the way. But if you're in pencil, you can just erase stuff. But I don't know if you can see this, but I can right here, this gives me another layer. Now that I've figured out my torso and stuff like that, I am going to make a version of my final. Pretty much I want to have like a little bit of a snout there, but I'm making a cleaner version of my final so that I can understand it better. Something like that, shoulder over here, kind of a back. So far, so good. Again, it's kind of putting this out there, you know, when I say final, this isn't like a final forever kind of thing. Because I'm just kind of giving myself that more, that framework that I wanted to kind of play into. Cool, sweet going over here, just a bit like a net pose right there. Taken from that, I don't know what kind of feet he's going to have, probably hooves. I think I want him to have hooves. So he's a little bit more bull like on that side, but he's going to have hands in the front, then a little bit of a tail sticking out the back over there. And I don't really want anything on the end of the tail. All right, cool, cool. What I could do is also work out the face this way. But I have a pretty good idea to face to be honest. If you need help in the face, let me know. Like I said, I can maybe answer it in the section, in the comments. Okay, I like this pose right here. It looks pretty good. Looks pretty real. I could maybe make the head a little bit smaller, but I'm not really sure yet going to make the eyes over here in this area. And I want his face to look a little bit more lizard like instead of bull like. Right? Because he obviously has this bull motif. But I'm going to give him, I'm just drawing, see this position of where I want stuff to be drawn. But he's going to have more of a lizard motif that's really big for me. He's a little less animated than like my pose over here. See, this looks a little bit more like a rock monster or something. But I didn't want the, I think these proportions right here are too cartoony. It still looks good, and it's just a different thing. I want it to be less cartoony because I just think it's just my opinion. You can obviously make it anything you want. All right. I'm digging that. Yeah, I like that right there. So let's, so this is my final pose and now I'm going to do the exact same thing that I did before. Again, if you have a pencil, you don't need to do this layering stuff, I just recommend it. I'm going to go over here, take another sheet of paper, and now we're going to jump into the final, final for as far as I can tell. All right, so let's jump into that. 5. Your Final Lineart!: Okay, So we got our thumbnail. Kind of, I mean, we have it traced out underneath. And I have this as a layer. Remember this is just basic, basic paper, right? This isn't really too hard, it's very basic, you know, printer paper, so nothing fancy, but you can layer it like that so that we have the body structure underneath. All right, let's go into like some stuff. Okay, let's go into his face. Looking at my references, I'm thinking of like the face with a little bit of a snout on it. But I'm going into the eye right there. He's aimed this way, so you're probably not going to be able to see the other eye very much. You might see a sliver it on that side and that's what I'm trying to portray right there over here. For the brow, he's probably got very big brows. Very big brow in that area, line underneath the eyes right there. How do you say? I want to say I basically, it's like the bag into the eye. Sorry about that. I hair rained right here a little bit right now. Nostrils, big nostrils out front curving up right there. That is zygomatic arch, which is basically your cheek bone. I want to have a pretty high, very similar to that small image we have you for reference, but you never want to be a slave to your references. You just want it to be as a guide. Right now, I'm like mostly looking at this. Then occasionally when I need help, I'll look over at the, It's not even really help. When I need a reference, I'll look at the reference right when I need a little bit of extra boost there, draw some teeth underneath here. I'm using a Sharpie, by the way, mostly to show you through example. You can use anything you'd like, Anything you'd like, pencil, pen marker, charcoal, whatever that you find. It works for you is I think for me I'd probably do this digitally if I was doing it on my own. Again, I'm just doing it for demonstration purposes. I'd probably use something digital mouth underneath there with the jaw pull back right there into the lower jaw, right there. Again, that cheek bone right here, I want to look like he took like human growth hormone or something like little cheekbones. Just a big frame all around line over here. The horns are coming right from the side of big side of his head. Let's go over here and find them curve out. We have them underneath and I don't know if you can see the layer underneath. I did show it to you, but I can see that layer where I drew the horns beforehand. So out over here for the top of the head. Let's go over here, the far side, up over here. Now up over here, see I'm doing this in marker so I can't really race or anything. Probably alter the size of that one a little bit. I do want to big but I think on digital you have the option to adjust certain things, stuff like that. Going in to smaller details in the face. I'm not going to do smaller details yet. Right. I just want the overall impression of everything. I'm going to go over here made to the mighty Joe Young. But right here for the shoulder, so arm over here on this side. He's not fully flexing it, so I don't think he needs to have like this huge bicep or anything like that downward over here. Let's go over here to the tricep just quick. No wild anatomy, something like that. Back of the elbow. And then we're going to go over here on this area. Pull the back of the right there. I would say for this I'm going to form his knuckles over here in this area. I told you he walks, his hands are like this. That's what I'm going to do is I'm going to find the hands down there like that. Just a little bit, spread out like that. Over here on this side as well. Over here on this side. There you go. Like that. We had some more stuff to make it look more animal like right now. It just looks a little bit, obviously it's humanoid proportions. Go over here, up curve over here for the pectoralis. Down over here in this area, curve line, line. I never really thought about it. He wouldn't definitely not be wearing clothing. It'd be more of like a lizard body type, like think of like tyrant or something from resineval. He's got like a lizard body going on. So we're going to go over here, draw his legs, say it goes back so I don't want to him walking on this tippy toes or whatever the heck. I want to have this like crocodile feet over here. All right. Like I said, so far, so good. We're making some pretty good progress right here pretty quickly. And pulling out over here for the other side of him. Line over here, line over here, over there for that side, going over here. The form on that side, same thing over here with the knuckle area. Knuckles over here. You would do multiple passes like this too. I could easily do another pass of this in a different style. You are the one that's going to have to decide on your own. This is just the demonstration phase of the entire thing. Maybe he's got his feet back there, he's dragging his feet a little bit, and you could see a little bit around the corner there. Yeah. Honestly, I don't know how those will work right there. Let's go here. The back all right, there we have a pretty decent layout. Honestly, I'm digging the layout pretty well. I'm going to go in here and I'm going to push into like some more detail oriented things. Sorry about the mice by the way. I keep moving it, but let me talk really quick about the detail of the skin and the texture, right? Okay, so let's get into the detail of this guy. So we have a general good body framework right here. And I'm thinking, okay, what kind of detail can I put on him? One, I want to go a little bit thinner on the lines and I'm going to go into his face just a bit right here, putting in some more wrinkles along the outer portion of his nostrils because that's what it brings in, a little bit more realism to him in general. Not too big on the nostrils because it's going to make him look too humanoid. But what I want to do is I really want to maybe deeper darker in set eyes and going to give him a pupil right there, kind of like slip pupils, even though that makes no sense. Big animals don't have that. They don't evolve with that, With slip pupils down over here for the neck, just a bit over here, maybe a little bit. We're looking at his musculature and I want to add a little bit more muscle definition right here, like that rippling muscle kind of thing. Because he's a crazy animal dude, If think about like chimpanzee with like no hair on it. Line over here, line over here. And again, I can take many, many passes at this character until I get something that is perfectly up to par, right? Um, that's a cool part about this is you can just keep going through these steps, following it step by step by step. As far as color goes, I'm not demonstrating color here in this lesson. But I would say for him, I'm going to want him to be maybe more of like of the Earth. I don't know. I don't want him to be red. I want him to be blue. I just really think blue would be a better color for him. Drawing in right here a little bit more of the musculature, things like that. Maybe drawing a little bit more of the fingers there and the nails, again, a lot of detail I'm doing nicks and scratches. Little detail in shadow. That again, like at this point we're just cruising, putting in some things are just style like the shadow under here, we can put like his entire lower body here in the shadow. That can definitely give a cool look to it. All right, Like he's leaning over and there's a lot of shadow covering this area. But he is a pretty big dude, so he's going to have a, a lot of reflected light coming from all over the place. But it's also a good idea to put that in shadow because it falls back on our eye. More steration here on the deltoid, which is the top of the shoulder line over here a little bit. I'm keeping my my lines thin at this point. Thin, right there. The thing on the hand steration, the hand over here along the horns shed, over here, over here in this area, and over here as well. Again, just on the horns right here, giving that roundness to this guy. You along the brow here, drawing the thin areas, but I can just keep going on him. I said also that I wanted him to have a reptilian look. As far as skin goes, I am trying to draw, see these little curves right here. These little curves are like texture. I'm not drawing them everywhere because you can overdo it. But I'm drawing it here and there just to give it some form. All right, when you're drawing it here and there, you do something called indication, meaning you're drawing it here like little bits over here and little bits over here. And the viewer is going to think it's everywhere. The viewer is going to fill that shape and draw some darkness over here under the neck. Again, I could keep going off of this. His hand is on front, so I'm going to put a thicker line at the front here. That thicker line shows that this hand right here is closer to us. So that's kind of like a drawing technique. But anyways, um, you kind of get the idea. I can kind of keep going on this guy forever. Stay tuned to the last video and we're going to go over the name. Okay, so let's go over the name. What are we going to name this dude? And we'll go over that in the next video. So let's do that right now. 6. Name Your Kaiju!: Okay, so we got our character. We have our kaiju here, at least this is my kaiju. And I'm going to go over a name with all you guys, how would I come up with a name? You do it on Google, just write them out. Think of something, maybe epic. It doesn't have to be completely made up, right. It can be maybe like a word that we're not sure. But the first thing I want to do is to write a list of them and then cross off the ones that you don't like. And, and I'm just kind of brainstorming with you. So the first thing that comes to my mind is, and there's probably other ones, right? Beholden, maybe. Beholden. I'm just spitting out words. I'm thinking of something like that. Seems big like Garon maybe. I don't know if Gargon is already another one though. You also got to make sure you got to run it across the internet, see like what's already taken or not. As far as Kaiju goes Hornbill, I'm literally, this is like just pouring out of my head right now as we're doing hornbill. I don't know. I keep thinking B, thinking B, right. You can also look into like ancient names to kind of give you a little bit more inspiration of what's going on with that daisy. Let me move this over you guys, think of some other stuff. Let me see, Stronghold. That's more of a superhero name. Stronghold. Sorry, forgive my writing powerhouse. I think that's another character too. All these characters are taken, but are they Kaiju? Right? Let's do one more, just kind of throw this around. Power. Let's see, I'm thinking something with a Centaur, but not century, maybe. Centi. What I want you to do is also definitely Google them. I'm going to tell you which one I'm leaning on. For me personally, I don't like real words. You can think of real words, right? You can think of maybe something ancient in Greek mythology, some sort of like that. You can come up with a spin on one of those. I don't like stronghold because it's just to superhero like. So I'm going to go with no on that. Powerhouse is the same thing. Hornbill sounds more like a bird gargan, I think is already a kaiju. And beholden I think is a kaiju. But I'm leaning toward this guy. Sentient. Let me look up. Kai, I don't think there's one called sentian, but there's something about that. There's Centurion. But Sentian, I think is not even a word. I'm going to go with this guy named Sentian. That is my process. Literally. I'm just thinking of real words. Again, leaning on the what is sounds big. I'm thinking of. Let me like sentinel. But there you go. What is your name? I want you guys to put all your stuff like your Kaiju in the description in the project. Like I want to see all of your guys' stuff and I want to know the name of your guys as Kaiju. So put that in there, it's going to be fun. I'm excited to see it. And I'm going to reply to every single thing you put. So I'll see you soon.