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1. Welcome: What's up, guys? Welcome back. My name is Dave Reed, aka age vote for Dave, and I'm back today with another
character design course, my favorite thing to do. And today we're going
to sketch a cat. Today we're just
going to sketch. So I'm just going to teach you all of the tips and
tricks I know about character design and looking at an animal and seeing the shapes. Once you learn how to
look at an animal and see the shapes that make that
animal as beautiful as it is. Those are your answers that, that's what will
make your artwork in your drawing stand out. So we're just going
to sketch a cat. I'm gonna keep it nice
and simple and fun, like I always do, hopefully. So I'm gonna teach you
how I go about creating my characters and making them dynamic and cute and
all that good stuff. So let's move on to the
next video class project.
2. Class Project: So today we're just
going to draw a cat. We're just going
to sketch a cat. And that's basically the
extent of the class project. Now if you want to go ahead
and draw a different cat, or if you've finished the
tutorial and then you have cats of your own or
pictures of your own. Feel free to use those. I'd love to see what you can
do with a different cat. Once you've learned and
you should have picked up the way that I'm
thinking when I'm drawing. Use, use it for your own
animals or your own cats. They don't even have to be cats. There's really no rules. I want you to enjoy class, I want you to have fun, and I want you to take
what you've learned and I want you to put it to use
on your own pictures, your own cats or
your own animals. And yeah, if you can
please upload them. I'd love to see
them and everyone else in class would love
to see them as well. So that's the extent
of the class project. Nothing too difficult,
nothing to worry about, nothing to stress about. We're just gonna
have fun, relax, and do some sketching. All right, let's move on to the next video. Getting Started.
3. Part3: Okay, so let's draw our little cat ear and we're
gonna keep it really simple. I'm going to use Disney pencil. And I'm gonna make
sure that I have a new layer above
our image layer. So it can be a little
daunting, drawing animals. But just think of
them as shapes, break them down into
really simple shapes. First, I'll just make the ground around where his the bottom of
our cab will be. In this might change,
but just to touch this, just give it a base you
want to do step-by-step, whatever makes it
easier for you. So sometimes I just
draw this little line just so I know where
the bottom is. Let's start with his head. And you see his head shape. And at first it's like this. It's kind of like that this actually can look pretty good. But I wanted to be a
little bit softer. So I'm just gonna make
a new layer above it. Just lower the opacity
of that layer. And you want to take
this same shape, but just round it out. It's the same shape. You
just keep it nice and round. It doesn't always
have to be perfect. I mean, this is an illustration. You make it as clean or
as loose as you want. But you still want to
have that general shape because that's
what fits the cat. You still want it to look like the cat that you're drawing. Now that we have his head shape, we can go ahead
and make his ears. They're pretty much
around these points. Maybe little off
of those points. Just want to make sure
they're pretty equal. If one is a little bigger
than near the one, you just kinda have to just eyeball it and you want
them to be fairly equal. Again, they don't
have to be perfect. But you don't want
one really big ear and one really small year. Of course, you can make
these ears bigger. You can make them
smaller if you want. And that's where, that's
where the character design really comes into play. If you want to make
them really small. Up here, you can are really big. That's where the character
design comes into it. And you just have to
figure out what you like. Maybe I'll make
these a little wider and be okay with
erasing experimentally. That's an important
part of this process, is just experimenting until you see something that's gratifying. You want to see shapes
that are gratifying. I'm just gonna get
rid of this lower layer because we don't need it. But I'll make a new
layer and I'll just make that line at
the bottom again. I'll just go back to the
top layer just so I can, I can move it around because
we might I might change it. I might make the
ground lower the head I or something like that
depending on how I do his body. But don't be afraid
to use layers. I use a lot of
layers and it's good because you didn't
then you have a lot of versatility in
what you're doing. Let's make the centerline
down his face. For his eyes. I usually
do like a line like this. And then I do something
where his nose is, that's just to give
me like a basis like a little w almost make
sure I'm on the right layer. I just do that to help me out. So his eyes are a bit higher than not in the middle of our shape. They're a
little bit higher. I'm gonna go here,
I'm going to do that little bump and
then I'll go back up. That would just help me
kind of pocket his eyes. Now for this shape, we're just going to
make an upside-down, almost looks like an
upside down heart-shaped. We're gonna do that
upside-down heart shape here. We'll just use that
center line as a guide. Now for the nose, I usually do an upside-down
sharp heart shape as well. You can get technical
with the nose, but I find that little heart-shaped usually
look pretty cute for noses. Now we have our
little heart-shaped there and we'll just darken
this line down the middle. And we'll just
make a little line here for his little mouth. Another really fun thing
that I do to accentuate the smile is on this
line coming up. Then I just go like this. Here's another option and something that I
actually have to do often for some reason I always
make this part a bit big. So you can just take
your select tool. These are just things to
think about when you're drawing because I always
think about them. I'm always looking at
everything as a whole. And I'm gonna make this
smaller and bring it up. Because I find that,
I find that that helps with my animals being
cuter if I make their snout. And things a little bit smaller. For some reason, I tend
to always draw them big and that's something
that I always do. Experiment. You can
also make them bigger. That will make your character
look much different. You know what I mean? If you, if you make them really big, then sometimes you just have to make that you had just have to make the face bigger as well. Something like that. Then you can make the eyes really
small or something like that. You can, there's a lot
of things that you can do to sort of characterize your, your, your art. We're
doing pretty well. We have the head. I'm gonna move the
head up a little bit. What I move the line down. Not that it really makes
that much of a difference, but it's okay to be neurotic a little bit and do the kind of silly
things that you do. If they, if they
help your workflow. I'm gonna do the body
on a separate layer because sometimes I mess up on the
body and it's just good to do it on a second layer. It relieves a little bit of the pressure because
we have the head, I'm happy with the head,
we'll do the eyes later. Let's go for these,
these general shapes. So it looks like there can be a nice line here and
a nice line here. It looks like he's a
little bit of a neck area. So I'm just going to sort of it was just sort of do these, this little bit here. I'll make this line coming down. I'm actually going to make
Mexican and do this shape. I think that'll be good
for a nice chest shape. Looks like he has a coupon
or something like that. I'll just do this. I'll
do that little shape. And that might just help me. Help me find the other shapes. Give them a nice
chest right there and then it looks like he has a big section here.
So let's do that. We already have most of it. Then it goes down here. This is where his little it'll pause a b and I don't see them. So I'm just gonna do
some little dome, some little dome pause. And I'll just make
this line street. We go not looking too bad. It's a little it's a little
fatter than than him, so I'm just going to erase it. So every time, every
everything that I'm doing, I'm looking at this
and I'm saying, okay, like he doesn't have how big is this compared
to his head? Right now? Mine is a little big. So I'm gonna go ahead
and make this line. Kind of hugs his body
a little bit more. Then I'm just going to do the transform tool and I'll make it all a
little bit smaller. And I'm gonna erase this
line because we don't really need who doesn't have
like hard lines. Those lines are
mostly just guides. I'll leave a little bit here. I'll just round these
out a little bit. Now for the back of him, is this nice little puff right here and it
comes straight down. We don't have to get
too crazy with that. Other little leg would be there. You can do a little dome
if you want to do like the shape of his
other little foot. I'm just going to
straighten them out because you can see that
I've drawn cricket, which is normal, so
I'm just going to straighten everything
out a little bit. That looks good. I'm just
going to label my layers now. Good to label your layers. That way you can just keep
track of everything ground. It's a really good habit to
get into a name this cat. Not that we don't know
what that layer is, but I like to be thorough.
4. Part4: Okay, so our cat looks
a little different. His little hump looks like mine kinda comes
out a little bit. So another little trick
that I do is I use Liquify. I'm just going to pull
that out a little bit. Was nice and round. That looks good. I also feel like his body is a little taller and his his
head is a little low on here. So I'm going to bring the
head up a little bit. I'm going to tilt it because his head is tilted a little bit. I'm going to bring
it up. Then I'm gonna go to our body layer. I'm just going to use Liquify. I'm just going to bring
this up a little bit. Basically what I do. Often as I do a lot of
editing as I'm going along, just to make sure
that everything looks as good as it can. So you do want to
match the shapes. But now that you have your
shapes, at a later point, you can refine them and you can smooth them
out and you can make it really simple
and really illustrative. I'm gonna, I'm gonna
bring his little leg. Let's go to his body. I like I like the spot
where these feet are. I'm just going to
kind of make a line. Next. We think that looks pretty good. I don't think we
need to do anymore. With that. I'm gonna erase this
because the arm comes up a little bit, but it's not, there's
no hard lines. There's no really,
really hard lines. Just gonna erase some
of this sketch a little bit just to kind of clean
them up a little bit. Let's do some eyes. I'm gonna do the eyes between the
body and the head. I just like to do them
underneath the initial lines. For the eyes. I like to do mine very
cartoony, very Disney like. So. I'm gonna start out
with his eye sockets. They're going to come up
kind of like a big dome. So something like this. I can see already that
this eye is a little off. I'm just going to erase this
because you want them to be the similar place coming
up on that center line. Always use the center lines
in your sketch lines. Just use them, but you also want to make sure
that everything is straight and everything
is fairly symmetrical. Didn't have to be
really symmetrical, but it's not going to be if, unless you're using
the symmetry tool, you're naturally not going to draw a perfectly symmetrical. I can actually make this
left one a little smaller. Just so this sort of match
up a little bit better. Here we go. You can do all
sorts of arcs here, but I just find a nice
arc and then a little, that little zip at the end. Just makes for a
nice eye socket. For the eyes. Let's go with some circles. This is where you
figured out that the size of the
eyes that you want. I think that's a
pretty decent size. I bring it right up
to that bottom line and then sort of snuggle them into right above his
little right above here. There's some space
in the in this, but I usually bring mine
a little bit closer. There's a few other ways that
you can do eyes as well. I'm gonna turn off this layer
and actually you know what? That's okay. I'll just redraw
the eye sockets as well. I'm going to make a new layer. I'll draw, I'll draw them a little bit
differently this time. I'll just do, just
do an arc like this. I'll bring it up. Again. I can see that
images are a little off. I might I might have to stretch his face a little bit because it seems like everything is a little
bit off-center. One thing that I can do is, and this is something that's
really good for you to learn how to do is be
okay with messing up, but just see when
things are not. When things might
need to be changed. And you can actually see here, there's a lot more space on this side and there
is on this side. That's when you just
find your layer. Find your layer
with what you need. Let's see, where's his
head? There's his head. I'm just going to
select all of this. I'm gonna go ahead and select these eyes that we just made. I think we're good. Now that we've
selected that circle. I'm just going to
bring everything over a little bit. Right
to the middle. There we go. You want to constantly be making sure of things like that. And I noticed a few times the this I kept coming
up against here. I just had to make
that make that change. That will really help if you can really see things like that. That's a lot better. There are a lot more a lot
more even on his, on his head. Okay, so let's go to
this secondary eyes. And then you could do more like football-shaped
eyes like this. You can do I shaped like that. Let me fix my fix this. I just bring it
down a little bit. Remember, you don't really,
sometimes you don't see things perfectly when you're drawing because we're
drawing in different angles. So constantly adjust your shapes in your their drawings
and that's it. That's a real skill
is just seeing where things need to be changed. And essentially you want to
keep these on the same line. Minor a little off,
but they're close enough where they're
not too bad. Let's get to some fun stuff. I like to do a thick
eyelash type thing. Of course you don't have to put the little tips on the end. You could always just do. You can always just do
a thicker line here. Then I do a little line here. For the for the little
space above the eyelids. I'm gonna do it. I can't help you put the
two, these can help it. Then you make your eyeballs wherever you want your
cat to be looking. What's really important
is that they match up. Like see this one is down and
it's touching the bottom. So this one should be touching. You don't want to have
one eye here and then one eye that's not touching because then it
will look very, very off. If you want to have
an eye like this, then they both need to be, even if it's looking at it, at an angle or something,
they both need to be the same amount of space above that bottom
part of the eye around. So we'll just look weird. But I don't want to
look in that high up. So I'll make an I there. I there. Let me drag it. Let me go ahead and move this down a little bit
because I can still see that this iss a
little bit higher. I'm gonna move it
down and closer. Here we go. Feels better.
5. Part5: Now I'm just gonna, I'm just
gonna use Disney brush. And I'm gonna do some quick. I like to color in the eyes. I like to color in the eye
sockets to give some depth. I'll go back Disney brush and
I'm gonna add for his ears. Notice his ears, oops, that's a little thick. Notice his ears go like this. And then there's this
little tiny piece, which is little tiny piece here. Little tiny piece
here, you see it. It kind of curves over things
like that are important. And I really like
making those shapes. I think they really
give it some life. In order to do their shapes, I'm gonna go ahead and merge
the head and the eyes. Homework to the body to at this point in time,
I'm happy with it. Those little shapes on the ears. When I make this triangle, I just go like this. It's almost like you
just complete it. You complete this
little triangle, but then you have
this little bit here. And I think that
always makes ears look really, really great. He has a lot of
hair in his ears. So I just kinda go like this. Just kind of put some
puffs of air in there. I think it's looking
pretty good. Now if you want to,
you can duplicate it. Not duplicated or my thinking, you can bring the
opacity down really low. Then you can do some
really nice line work over your sketch. I'm going to use Disney pencil because I want
this sketchy look. I'm gonna make a new layer. Okay, and I don't
want it to be this thick because I don't I
don't need it to be this thick anymore because
I'm actually going over so I'm actually going
over the lines. So I'll start out with his eyes. Nice. I shapes with
that nice dark eyelash. This little line here. You can just go over
all your little shapes. What I like, what I love
about this brush is like that sometimes when I
need to get thicker, thicker stroke, then I
can just press harder. That's why I design these, these brushes to fit
the way that I draw, the way that I add in color and lines and
things like that. Notice this line I'm
doing really light. Doesn't really need to be thick. Let's make this
line for the head. Go ahead and make the ears. And you notice I just
leave some space because it doesn't
have to all connect. These lines. Don't have to connect. Also notice the speed. Sometimes I put
lines in and I sort of just like make
them a trail off. That's another
important part about brushes and lines and
things like that. These, I just want
to be very clean. Just do a little
little puff here. So it looks like
his tail is kind of going back behind him. I think it looks
pretty good so far. Give him some eyes. I'm just going to
adjust I'm gonna adjust this eye a little bit. Looks like his other
eyes a little bigger. So I'm gonna make
this a little bigger. And I mentioned a
turn it a little bit and I'll bring it closer. That way they're a
little more equal. The space is a little more equal from the nose to the eye. I'll make it a little
smaller to again, constantly looking
at little details. You want certain things to
really match up and be At a good symmetry to each other. Make some fun little
puffs for that. Another cute thing
that I always do, just make a little tiny
little puffs there. These are like these
little dark marks here. That's what that represents. They're very small and very
slight, but cats always have, usually there's a little
spot here that their, their hair sort of
changes a little bit. So that's, that's kind
of what that represents. I made one really compared
to the other ones. I could leave it,
but I always want to want to change and kind of
get them a little bit more. Let them more nice on
this pass of the drawing. For his little motifs, I will just add some lines here. Kind of going along
the same direction, but nice and round. For Xofigo. Want to keep
them nice and round. Maybe do some little bits here. Something like that.
6. Part6: Okay, This all
looks pretty good. The only thing that
I want is I want his cheeks to be a
little bit bigger. And if you can see there's a lot more space here than here. So this is when I use
my liquify tool again, you can actually
liquefy the sketch as well if you want to keep that
sketchy look underneath, oops, I forgot his at all. I don't want to forget
his little chin. I'm gonna highlight
both those layers. I'm gonna go to liquefy. I just want to try to drag
this out a little bit. You have to get used
to using Liquify. I use it quite often. It's not too bad. I want it to curve into his
head a little bit more. I don't want it to be like his head is really
sitting on top there. Let me just loosen
that up a little bit. I'll do. Whoops. Where's my other
they are. I'm just going to use a regular eraser. I use the G brush
and just erase. I don't want it to be that
thick there, right there. So it's important to have you don't want certain
lines to be too, too thick because
they draw attention. The only line that I might
make thicker now that I'm thinking about it is this line. Let me carve a little
bit of this off. Just get them a little more. I'll use Liquify and I'll sort of pull that out a little bit. Because I can see that this is a little bit
longer than this. And he actually has quite long, quite a long little snout there. Now let's go back to our
little Disney brush. Didn't he brushes just like
it just helps me shade. It's just a nice little textured shading brush that I use. And he's all, he's kind of all shaded so I can make the
brush actually really big. And I really liked to leave, leave it nice and sketchy. Just color them in. Would've been nice if
I actually did it in one long brushstroke.
But that's okay. He's a little bit
of a darker cat, so I'll just make the
eye sockets a little bit darker to kind of draw them
out from everything else. If you want, you can
add in some little bit of little bit of shadows like that and maybe some maybe make the back of the eat the little folded ear darker. Maybe over here a
little bit darker. Maybe make this the
back leg a little darker and a tail a
little bit darker. Maybe underneath you
can add a little, add a little shadow here. I'll go back to Disney pencil. And now you can figure
out if you want, Here's a darker, he's
kind of a dark knows. I'll make it still a heart
knows a little bit darker. And then you can figure
out if you want some, some pupils will see
how these pupils look. Not bad. Let's see if I make
them a little lighter. There's definitely an art
to make them things look like nice and sketchy
and things like that. Sometimes you just
have to experiment. Let's try this. Try
that Disney brush. See how that looks. See which one looks more
natural. Disney brush. Think that looks a little
more natural to me. I think I like that. So obviously you can choose
whichever way you like. I'm just going to use Disney brush and
make a little bit of a shadow right underneath. Then as I was taking my eraser, I'll make sure everything's
on a layer together. I'll just add a little
pop right there. You can add a circle. Sometimes I just do like
a little line like that. To just give a little bit of a highlight in terms of experiment and see what kind
of highlight I like best. You want them to move them
to sort of match and be in a similar place
because the light is hitting in a
similar, similar place. I liked this little guy here. So that's how I would
character design a cat. I think the cat is really cute. Experiment with different
shapes and sizes, experiment with different cats. But just have fun with it. And it doesn't always have
to be super, super perfect. You just need to really get
the shapes down if you get nice shapes and everything looks like it's sitting comfortably, like even a little bit, it's a little bit up so I can I can actually even it out a little bit just so it's flat. Just so it's a little flatter. I think that looks nice. But that's pretty much how I, how I go about thinking about creating characters
and doing character designs. Just little tips like
putting these little thing. They just, they make them look a little more anthropomorphic, but enough like the cat. And I just think it's
really, really fun. I hope you guys hope
you guys enjoyed.
7. Bonus1: Okay, So I want to do some bonus footage
of really giving him some are her some
different expressions to audio was copy and paste. And I'll include this page. Just so you can practice
doing your expressions. I'll probably erase the eyes or I'm not sure how
I will do that, but I definitely
want to include this so that you can practice
doing your expressions. You can trace the cat, you can just sort of
get into the flow of little cat here. I'm just going to
duplicate this right now. Just so I have an extra one
just in case I mess up. If you want to make
the eye closed, you can use that same shape, but needs to align. You want to have this
part and be thinner. And I'm gonna move
it over because I, because I wanted to be close. I want this edge to be
right up, right up here. I don't want that. I don't want that to go because the eye starts right there. I want them to be
in the same spot. So I'm gonna move it over. So that's how if you want to make him blinking or winking, not blinking, blinking
would be both eyes. So let's give them
another expression. If I was gonna give them
sort of a rascal expression, I would take this eyebrow. And instead of just
going up like this, I could go up and I
can go down and over. That's all it takes
to give him a really, really different expression. I could leave this,
I can leave this up or I can make
this even higher. To accentuate it. I can make that even higher. Like that. Let's say he's worried. Take those eyebrows
and usually for worry, I do an eyebrow
sort of like this. I'll erase this little
eyebrow sort of shape. And I'll do this for both eyes. And then I'll get rid of this. Smile. Let's see how
do I want to do this? I might even be able
to let me erase this. Makes mouth open a little bit and you can even get rid of the smile a
little bit more. Just give them a little bit
of that shape of the mouth. Just so he's a little worried, a little bit nervous. Let's say you want
to give them a big, big smile with both eyes closed. We'll start, we'll go ahead
and I'm gonna try to start at where I wanted to put
on it to bring it over. Makes me make a line here
as though he's really, really squeezing his eyes shut. Then we'll take
this and I'm just going to select the mouth. Let's see if I can. Let's see if this
shortcut actually works. I've selected the mouth
and then I'm going to liquefy my favorite,
my favorite tool. And I'm just going to
flatten this sort of works, but then it's already
gets lost in the thing. That's okay. Let me undo my selection. And now I'm just
going to remake this. And how big do we
want his mouth? We can make his mouth
pretty break ME pretty big if he's really,
really laughing hard. Maybe it's like absurdly big. Maybe he's got a
little tongue in there. Might be too big. So sometimes I have to reassess. Let's do, let's do the math. Like maybe we just want
to do a semicircle. Sometimes I just
have to keep going until I find something that fits little tongue in their use or a Disney brush to just give a little
depth of his mouth. I think that works a
little bit better. These are not to be
so big like this. For some reason, this
really, really big. I'm just gonna make this smaller because it didn't
have to be that huge. Eyes. Maybe I'll even
skinny it up a little bit. Make it nice and thin. I think that looks a lot better. I'll bring this one down a
little bit just so it's a little bit off from where we'd
like I was saying before. Sometimes they get
a little bit far away from the from the nose. Will make them
smiling, laughing. I'll still do that little. Try to even this
out a little bit. I'll go back to Disney brush and we'll just add
in a little bit of a lid and then a
little tick here. Though his actual skin
on his eyes is way up. Let's do a different
mouth expression. Let's just do, let's do. Let's do something like this. Again. I'm really just playing
with that that top line. And it's really,
that's all it is. Once you start to master
that top eyeline, you can get so many
good expressions. We'll do this one the same way. Just erase. So I have enough to
make a nice dome. If you haven't, if
you have a car and he has a particular expression, you can, you can
sort of make it, let's make this a little,
Let's make this smaller. Better. For this one. Let's let's make maybe make him sleeping,
something like that. So for sleeping, I usually I
usually do the closed eyes, but they're a little
bit different. Instead of doing
them up like this, you kind of do them sort
of the opposite direction. If I kind of flipped
upside down. I'll just do a nice thick want to even amount. This one is the own
weight way wild. Pointing up. This one is pointing this way. This one is pointing
way up that way. So I just want to fix it. Even that out a little bit. Clean this up a little
bit just so I can keep my sketches a little
prettier if I can. Maybe I'll just, maybe
I'll just match the other. I get rid of this altogether. I can use liquify.
I'll use liquify. I'll just pull this down until it looks like
it's straight across.
8. Bonus2: It's really important that
you sort of take a step back and make sure that things
are straight like this. Because lot of times
they won't be. Another trick that you can
do is be careful doing this. Because if you save it
or if you exit out, you could cut off some
of your artworks. So be very careful
sometimes to be safe. I'll just duplicate it. And then I'll take the
duplicate layer and I'll go to our Transform tool and
I'll flip it horizontally. And then you can see how offset
certain things are. Like. I can see that my faces are there all sort of,
they're all sort of crooked. Let's say I wanted to
really straighten this out. I'm gonna have to take each one and then sort of just tilt it like that to sort of straighten
them out on the head. Something like that. And I can see little differences here. But it's not really that it's
not that critical because I know I'm aware of it enough that I tried to fix it
as I'm as I'm drawing. So it doesn't look that drastic, but sometimes it can
look very, very drastic. So it's just something that
you want to be aware of. If you've seen people
flip the canvas. You just want to be
aware that your eyes don't really see
things. Normally. For example, like this
one is way bigger. This is way bigger
than this side. There's sometimes
I'll just take time and try to even amount
as much as possible, straighten it out on the head. And either make one
bigger or one smaller. Maybe we'll just maybe we'll try and make
this one bigger. Something like that. I'll just try to just try
to even them out so they look good if it's flipped
backwards or forwards. It's just something that
just pay attention to and be aware of because it's
normal, it happens. So let's actually see
what it looks like. If I flip it back. It'll could flip back. Now let's see what they look like compared to the other one. Was probably hard to notice. As you saw, I didn't
make changes. So there are differences. Sometimes they're slight, but just be aware that it's
those slight things that really can make or break artwork and really elevate
your art to the next level, which is being aware
of things like that. Because they're very important. They're not super, super. Don't worry about them too much. But just be aware that
your eyes don't really see things perfectly all the
times, all the time. So sometimes you have
to sometimes you have to adjust for it.
Since it's a bonus. I just feel like I am okay with getting into the weeds
a little bit about that. Just so you're aware of it. Because most people
just aren't even aware. They don't realize
that your eyes aren't aren't seeing things the way that they
actually look crazy. I'm just going through and
just kind of adjusting, moving things to the
middle, evening things out. What are we going to do
for his little mouth here? Just like just like a
kind of a relaxed face. Maybe we'll make them a little happier when he's sleeping. Sometimes I'll just keep
going through and trying different things
until the expression really speaks to me. I just wanted to show you some variations,
some expressions. Just so you have an
idea of how you, if you want to do your cat a little bit differently or
make different expressions, I just wanted to show you
some different variations. So have fun with that. I'm going to include
this in the class. I'm gonna, I'm gonna include this just so you can work on it. You can trace them, you
can just practice them. You can practice different ones. You can erase the
eyes and just do your own eyes if you
want to just practice. But it's all about practicing. It's all about getting better and working and
just being obsessed. And you will excel,
I promise you. All right.
9. Thank You!: All right guys, thank
you so much for joining me in class today. I hope that you learned
something and I hope you had fun drawing this cat. And I hope you continue
to draw other animals and other cats and just expand on what you learned
here in class today. I really had fun making
this, making this cat. I hope you did too. And if you have any questions, if you have any problems or
if you want to chat to me, then check out my YouTube. I'm always online. You can ask me questions. You can ask questions here on my social media,
things like that. Just reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns, or if you want to know
anything else about class or about drawing
or about life. Although I can't guarantee you that my advice will be
the best about life. But when it comes to drawing, when it comes to
sketching, I'm your man. But again, thank you so
much for joining me. It's always a pleasure and I can't wait to see what you do. Please tag me on social
media and I'm happy to share your work on like
on my Instagram and things like that because I just loved to see
what you guys do. So again, keep drawing, keep sculpting, and I will catch you all in the next video. Morning.
Dave Reed, 2D & 3D Illustrator - Brooklyn, NY
