Drawing Cartoon Humans! Part 1

1. Welcome! : What's up, guys. Welcome. Dave Reed here, AKA Drug-Free Dave coming to you from Brooklyn, and I'm really glad that you're joining me today for another drawing class. I've gotten asked a lot about drawing humans and modern hydroxy humans, and I actually do. I'm a children's book Illustrator, so of course I have to draw a lot of humans. My style is very fun, very whimsical, very children's book illustrator, read Disneyesque. I'm going to teach you everything I know about creating characters. This one is just going to be cute face, lots of different hairstyles. I'm just going to bring you through how I go from a rough sketch to a regular sketch slash drawing type thing. Then in another video, we'll do line work and we'll do coloring. The magic comes from the rough sketch and your sketch. That's what we're going to concentrate today in class. I'm going to be using Procreate on a 2021 iPad Pro, but it doesn't matter what application you use. This is fundamentals, this is drawing, this is sketching. You can even use pencil and paper. Doesn't really matter what application you have as long as you want to draw, and you want to learn, then you're in the right place. Let's get on to the next video, The Class Project. [MUSIC] 2. Class Project : Class projects. We're going to design a cute human, we just going to do a very stylized human. Bigger eyes, very cute, very engaging, very dynamic character design. That's what I do, that's what I love to do. Like I said, children's book illustration, so of course, it's going to be very cute and very round, features, things like that, round features like lend itself to things just being cute. Make sure that you download the templates. I have all the templates of the hair I'm going to do, of the face, so you can just lower the opacity and you can trace over that. If you feel like drawing it is actually too advanced for you and that's fine because tracing is a big part of this whole thing, and learning and tracing might get you out of habits that you don't even realize you're doing. Don't worry about that, download the templates, you can make them really light, and then you can just use them as an aid, as we're going along in the tutorial, because everything starts out ugly. It starts out as just lines and circles, and then we slowly build-up to the character that we want to draw. That's all for the class project, just make your own character. You can change a lot of the features on our face if you want, wherever you want to do, be creative. Like I always say my videos, this is for you, this art is for you. Feel free to make it your own or free to make it exactly the way that I'm doing it, because either way you're going to be learning and you're going to be learning how to make a character from the ground up, which is essential. That's about it, be sure to upload them to the class if you want to when you're done because I love to see them in a lot of other students would love to see them as well. One more thing for Procreate users, be sure to download my procreate brushes, my Disney style brushes. They're free with his class, and you can use the same exact brush that I'm using when we do this tutorial. Let's move on to the third video, getting started, so we can finally get started. One more thing for Procreate users. [BACKGROUND] I can't say procreate. 3. Getting Started : Getting Started. Welcome, guys. My canvas size is just screen size 2732 by 2048. One thing that I always do is I go to the background color and I always just make it a little bit darker and a little bit warmer because I just find it to be easy on the eyes. I'm going to be using Disney Sketch Lite, which is included with the class. Make sure to download that and also be sure to download the template because if you want to, you can bring it in, lower the opacity, and you can use it as a guide when you're drawing. Disney Sketch Lite. Let's go ahead and make sure we're on a new layer. This is the practice one that I did, so let's see. When I'm doing a human, I start out with basic shapes first. Let's start out with just a circle. Just a sketched circle. I know it's always weird when artists do that thing where they're drawing really fast and they repeat the shapes. It's because you're wanting it to make a perfect circle and you can see when things are off, so you're just adjusting so that it's the most perfect circle you can make. That's what I'm actually doing. I'm drawing, but I'm also adjusting as I'm going. That's why I'm making all of these lines. Of course, I could just go like this, and then I could change the shape to a circle. It's essentially the same thing, but I don't do all those extra steps when I'm drawing. I'll just make the messy sketch circle. Now that we have our circle, Let's just draw a straight line down the middle. All of this takes work to see the right way, and just try to make sure that it's in the middle. Sometimes we don't look at our drawings and look at our artwork straight on because we look at our artwork like this instead of straight on. You might see something I'm drawing and it might not be perfectly symmetrical because that's how our eyes view. Just be aware of that. I know I am so slow. Let me get to the good stuff already. A lot of the basic shapes for making sketches and making people are the same things I would do for animals. I like to do just an oval down here using this center line just to show me where the mouth would be. That's what that line is. Make sure this isn't too dark. That's what this oval shape is. Now, the next thing I do is make two lines here, and this is like the bottom of the eye socket. I make it here and here, and try to keep them level. If you need to you can just go all the way to this line but I usually don't. I make two lines there like the bottom of the eye socket. Be aware you can probably see that. Let's use a selection tool so I can show you what I mean. This is the right no, I want a rectangle. Now, I'm just checking to see what's straight and what isn't. This is a little trick I do sometimes with the rectangle tool. If I want to see if this line up, I'll just do the rectangle line and just see if they line up. You see how off this is. The top of this line hits here, whereas the top of this line is all the way up here. That's what I was saying before, is just by the naked eye, and if I'm looking at it, it doesn't look too far off, but it actually is. Since I mentioned it, I usually don't. That's just the nature of sketching. But since we're talking about it, I'm going to go ahead and just lower it down a little bit. Let me change the snapping. I'm just going to lower this down a little bit, just so it's a little more even. That should be a little bit better. That's much better. Just another tips and tricks that you can be aware of when you're drawing. Now, we'll just make the top. I like to make a dome over these, and that gives you our eye sockets. I find that when I really work out the inner shapes of the eye, like the eye socket, it really just helps my drawing along, it helps the anatomy of the drawing. Of course, this is cartoony, but it's just something that I always do and it helps me. If I wanted to do something where one eyebrow is up, and one eyebrow is low, something like that, you can actually do that here. You can just use this as the top and you can bring another one like that. Then it gives you that expression. Just very, very useful. Let's see. What's the next thing that I want to do with this? With a human, they have more of a forehead. If this is where let's say the eyebrows will be, this is the top of our eye socket, we do want to give it some forehead. We can just use this line and just make a bigger arc around the top just so you have a little bit of that forehead space. Because this space, I see a lot of artists, they'll forget completely about this forehead space and they'll just start making hair here. Which is fine if it's bangs or something like that, then it's fine. But you have to remember that human characters do have a forehead and it's very important. Let's see how many shapes I can put on the dang forehead. 4. Face & Ear Shapes: Now that we have the forehead here, we can figure out the rest of the shape of the face. Here's the cheekish area, so you can make them pudgy cheeks. If you wanted to pudgier cheeks or if you just want straight, little bit more straight shape. We can just use our circle as a guide. So we'll just have two lines coming down, we'll just use our circle as a guide. If this is the muzzle, the mouth nose area, you can either go right underneath as I would if I was doing a cartoon, an animal or something. But if it's a human, we might want to just bring it down to a point. [NOISE] Just use our circle and just bring it down to a singular point. Something like that. So we have our forehead here. Also this isoquant line, I'm going to use that on both sides to make the ears. For the ears, I'm not going to do anything too crazy. I'm just going to do a shape like this for the ears, and I do that on both sides. I just use that line for the eye socket to know where it is. Because ears really aren't that high. You can look in a mirror and see where your ears are. Of course, you can adjust it. You can make higher ears. Some people have long faces and people who have wider faces, rounder faces, thinner faces. You can always adjust that. A tricky way to adjust something like that, if you decide that your character's face is too wide, you can take the Liquify tool. So you just go to adjustments, liquify and you want to use push. I usually keep my pressure up, distortion low, momentum low. Make the brush fairly big. Then you can just make it a little bit smaller. You can just skinny up the face if you want. You can make it smaller and like maybe his ears and sticking out. You can do a lot of edits with the Liquify tool. I use it a lot. I'll make this face a little bit thinner. I think that looks good. Also, if you decide that the ears are too big, which these ears are quite big, you can go to freehand, just go to the Selection tool. Freehand. You can trace your ear. Then you can go to the Transform tool and then you can just make it smaller. If you want, you can bring it in. If you want to use Freeform, you can make it a little smaller this way. That's probably a more normal sized ear. I like that one. Let's just erase this side. Same thing, selection tool, freehand will just trace this three fingers swipe down. Duplicate. Now with these options, flip horizontal, which means flip, like this. Flip horizontal. Now you have another ear that you know is the same size as the other ear. Also, if you've wondered what snapping is, you can tap snapping and you have these, play around with these because they might be useful for you. Magnetics. Sometimes I use magnetics, like for example, if I'm bringing this across, let's go back. I'll show you from the beginning. I flip it horizontal, snapping and now I've turned on magnetics. The fact that I've turned on magnetics, now it's magnetized, see how it's sticky. It will stay on this line. Now I can bring it across and I know that it's on the same line as it was. That's what magnetics is. But sometimes I leave it off because sometimes I want to just move in very tiny increments and you'll want to turn magnetics off for that. We're doing well, we have the head shape, we have the ears. Let's see what do we want to do next? Let's do some eyes. We go ahead and merge the ear layer down so that it's all one layer because this is just a sketch. 5. Eye & Nose Shapes: For eyes, I like to do, not a teardrop. I should use just plain circles for eyes and sometimes I do. But I also like to just go, I want to try to keep like equidistant from the center here. I'm just going to make this line-up, you come down about here. Then I'm going to bring this line across, so it's a little bit higher up than our eye socket line. It's just better, it's like a half-circle. Move a little bit more than a half-circle or something like that. Of course, if you want to do it's smaller. You can do a circle. If you want to just do a circle here, you can do that as well. But I tend to do just like a half dome-type eye like this going up straight and then sort of just pointing off almond dish. I tend to do more almond dish type eyes. If you want, again, a shortcut, you can select this, and then you can duplicate it. Flip horizontal, so same as we did with the ears, and you can bring it over. You just want to match this space from the centerline again. You can do something like that. Let's see. Now let's just flush out our eye socket a little bit more. I'm just going to make another dome around here like this. Then I'll just curve it underneath, so we'll go up, down, I'm just curve it underneath like so. Now we have a nice clean eye socket. The next thing we can do is a nose. Let's just imagine the nose comes down from here, and it comes out a little bit. I'll just do a generic nose, but of course, there's so many noses, and I want to keep my nose round. Keep it a little darker on the bottom. A lot of this you'll really fix up when you're doing your line work. That's when you can figure out some of the detail, I forgot the cat sitting underneath my feet. That's when you can work out a lot of the details. For example, I'll take my eraser and I'll just erase. I'm I doing this on a new layer? I am. I can bring this down to the same layer. I forgot when I changed the I, I made a new layer so I can just bring it all down to one layer. I'm going to erase some of this sketch because you don't really need that center line too much. We have the nose, I'll leave it there for now. We don't really need this circle anymore. Clean this up a little bit. I do like a sketchy look, but sometimes it's nice to also clean it up. Once you've worked out a lot of the things that you need to work out. Again, use your selection tool if you want the nose to be a little bit bigger, you can make it a little bit bigger. You can make it higher, you can make it lower, all of that will drastically change your character. If you can see my nose is basically just like this with a little round bit. Maybe not that sharp. But then around bid on top. You can go like this to make nostrils, and you can do something like this to make a little bit more of a nostril. Nostrils is very well, have to be so something like that. It's probably better. Because you wouldn't be really looking like straight into the nostrils. Although some people have nostrils like that, some people are very nostrily. Maybe you want your character to be very nostrily. We'll do a little bit of roundness here. Let's see what do we think? I'll just do some little, we'll keep it around for now. But I do like to show you options, but we'll keep it nice and simple like this for now. Let's just shake out the head so you can see our forehead is a little thin compared to the bottom of the face. I'm just going to write it out a little bit. I'll just widen it out and I'll just bring this line up, and just widen that out and then I'll just clean up around. I use Disney G brush to erase just because it's a thicker brush. But I'm going to use this to just clean up around our head. We don't really need this line anymore. But just clean up that sketch and really see what we're looking like. I think it's looking pretty good so far. I feel like the ears are a little bit off-centre. Let's see, let's use our selection tool and just check the ears. Now they're pretty good. Sometimes things can just look off sometimes and not be off. Let's check the top of the eyes. That's a little high. This one's a little high, so let's just select all of this. Let's go to freehand. This is something that you should constantly do until you're more aware of it with your drawings. It's always good to just check the proportions of things. Let's clean up under here a little bit. I think it's looking good. 6. Eye Details & Lips: I always make this part of the eye darker. That doubles as like an eyelash type shape. You know me, I always go like this. You don't have to do that. Maybe I won't do that in this. I'll do the same thing for this eye. I'II just make this darker. [BACKGROUND] Make that nice and dark. Then I will do another small line here. I'll start about here. Then I'll just bring it around like that on an eyelid type thing, like an eyelid crease. Now let's make some lips. I like to make the shadow of the upper lip. I'll just do like a shallow half dome for the upper lip. Make sure it's shaded in. I just make like a half dome. Then I make the line for the bottom lip. Then I make little dark areas on the bottom like on the creases of the lips. I just do like little dark lines. If you want it to be a little bit like maybe I think it's a she, maybe she's smirking a little bit. You can bring this up a little bit here. I'll do the dark spot there. Then you just do a little light make it look like it's doing its thing there. Maybe I want to bring her nose a little bit higher up. A little bit higher up and I'm going to select the mouth and I will make it a little bit bigger. We'll make it a little centered. If you want to use free form, maybe can make it a little wider too. These are some tools and adjustments that I use all the time with my characters. Let's give her some eyebrows. For eyebrows, I use this line, I use this arc. Go back to our brush. You see I just do a general shape line that way. Bring it up and then come down. Again for the eyebrow I like to just start on an angle like this, bring it around and then go down. That's pretty much like the extent of an eyebrow sometimes might be a little too thick. I just like just shave off some of it. Not shave off, that sounds rude. But something like that again, this is just our rough sketch. Just to get everything how we want it. 7. Pupils: Let's make a new layer underneath our sketch, and we just label it eyes for now. I like to do a layer underneath in case I want to move them around. I'll make our brush a little bit bigger. Disney sketch light, a little bit bigger. We can also just give her some pupils. Then it starts to slowly with human faces a little big, but we can fix that. There's a few edits that I might want to make. Some times I mess with the level of the eyes. Like I might want to bring the eyes down. But we'll see. I'm going to right swipe on the eye too. Right swipe on both of them and then use the selection tool. That way the people comes down as well. I can just take a look if I like it better. Like a better or a little lower, I'll just do the same thing with the other eye. Just right swipe on both of them. Selection Tool. I'll just grab this eye and bring it down as well. Also, I notice one thing to be aware of is you don't want the eyeball to be too close to this line up here. Like you want them to have equal space from the eye, from the pupil to the either they're both touching but one can't be too far away. It starts to look a little bit silly. We'll just grab that one and do the transform tool and we'll just drop it down a little bit. Also another thing if you notice when I make the eyes make sure that you don't see them in the middle because if you put them both in the middle, it starts to get that dead stare like it's like a scary doll. So don't put them in the middle of the eyes. Well, I didn't turn on my lights. It's probably a nicer with the lights on. Whatever you do, don't do this. Also for the ears I don't do too much of crazy details for the ears. I just do one loop here and then I do a smaller loop here. One loop, and I do a smaller loop right there. Keep it simple. 8. Hairstyles: Here, I like to think of it in one big shape and it has to be a nice shape, a nice silhouette. I know that might be weird to think about, but that's how I think about my hair. Something like this. We'll do a loop here, do a loop here, and then we'll do something that comes down. Maybe we'll do something like that. This is really big shapes and I'm just trying to give the hair some volume and just make it fun and loose. I try to think of the whole shape as one and then I'll do the details and tie it back into her head. Since I made this size big and bushy and gave it a lot of volume, I don't want to add the same amount here. You could, but just to keep it interesting, I'm just going to make her hair a little bit smaller on this side. So maybe something like this and then maybe it comes around and just joins. Maybe something like that. Let's see. Maybe something like this just so this side is smaller than this side comes out a little bit asymmetrical, but I think that feels nice. I probably should have done this on a new layer. We're going to lose the hair. I was on the eye layer. Let's do the hair on a different layer. You know what, I'm going to grab the eyes with my selection tool. Let's put the eyes on a different layer, cut, and paste. Now we have the eyes [NOISE]. This can be the hair or this is also the ear thing, isn't it? Let's grab the ear things. If I want to grab both, I use the selection tool freehand and then I tap on the little gray circle. Hopefully, you can see that. Once you tap on that and if you're still in freehand, then you can grab the other one. Tap on it, and now you have both three-finger swipe, cut, and paste. We'll just merge these together. Actually, I'm going to emerge this one with the rest of the face. So now we have face, we have eyes, I'll go ahead and merge them. It's a rough sketch. Hair, but I might want to do some different kinds of hair. Let's make sure. There we go, hair. Make everything a little bit smaller. Maybe you want a different hairstyle. Let's try something else. That's the beauty of layers, is you can just experiment. Let's say we want to lower the eyebrows, which we could do easily with the selection tool. Say we wanted to lower these, you can lower them and then you could add some bangs [NOISE], and you can just add, let's see, maybe something like this. The neck there, something like that you can do. 9. More Hair: Of course you can do some round shapes. Nice afro, if that's what you're into. You can do something around like that. I feel like I want to do some tips. Let's clear that one. You can do a line all around it. Let me just make some nice straight hair like this. Now it's important to add apart two. For that I just cross the headline like this. That's make that part. Then I just bring some lines around like that. Then when it gets towards the back, I just move the lines, go in the opposite direction. Then I just make this line which will lead the hair behind the ears because I want the hair to go behind the ears. Another line there. This neck in, whatever you do, don't have your character have a neck that long. There we go. Here now you know, if you look at your own hair, there's that part of here that's like this and comes down. That's important to add too. We're just going to make that going around so it looks like it's just going behind the ear. You can even have some coming in front of the ear as well. Then I just bring it all, nice light lines, I just bring it all down like that. Now if we wanted to do like a curly hair, I'll make the brush really thick. This might be something that you didn't want to do after you've already done a lot of details with the face, because you don't want to spend too much time now that it's only like a rough sketch. But let's say we'll do rounder like this. We'll make the part here. We want to make a curly. The brush is really thick. I'm just drawing some squiggles. Nice tight squiggles. You don't want to do them too big, or you can do them too big actually. You can do some curls, some coils. Two shapes that I'm doing is, one I'm doing like this and one I'm doing like this. The one like this is basically just like a filler. Then I want to do these little coils. I still want to do that. I still want to leave room for that. The bits here. I want to do some coils coming down, maybe even in front of the face. I want to just even this out so it's nice and even and round and then like that. You can just make all this darker. But it's really nice to make some curls that come down in front of the face too , something like that. What else do we want to do? Let's say you want to do a part is shaved and part isn't. We have the forehead here so I don't want to bring it too far down. I'll make the part there. Let's do some nice curls here like a nice curve. Make it go behind the ear again. Decent shape. I would say the best thing to do is practice these shapes like practice nice flowy shapes. Like if this is the head, one side bigger, and then one side not so big. Just add some curls to it. Just takes practice, just thinking about bigger shapes and thinking about things as a whole. You can use almost any shape for hair. It's actually a fun exercise that you can do. Just try out different shapes and see if you can make them turn into hair. If one side is shaved, let's say it's like this. Let's extend her head a little bit. We extend her head a little bit out, like this. Then you out to erase this line. Let's see, where is it? I would erase this. This double brush, I think it's material. It used to be a different name. Stubble would be great for that. You could add stubble in, so one side is shaved and one side isn't. Let's go back to our regular brush. You can give her some earrings, something like that. 10. Even More Hair: I like to do the general framing. That's how I do the framing of the hair. Maybe even something like this, one curl coming down or something like that. It's interesting. It looks a little Elvis-y, but you can actually go ahead and go crazy. You do something like this. You can make the bottom part of the hat. This is basically just two spheres. Then I'll make that little framing that I always do. Maybe she has the hair and something like that. The neck coming down, some pearls or something like that. There's so much you can do. Let's see. What else do we want to do for this hair? I have to put that line back. Actually, I'll leave it. The hat was fun. Make a new layer. Sometimes I just do big shapes. Maybe turtleneck or something like that. Again, I always bring those lines down to bring it behind the ears a little bit. But you could actually bring it in front of the ears too, and just crop the ears. Maybe just like a bow or something in her hair, I don't know. Let's see. Maybe even something like this. I'm going to make a new round shape above because you don't want to do it right on the skin line. We'll just make it a little rounder right on top. This will be our crease. It doesn't have to be that long. Maybe something like this. Maybe this side goes behind the ear. Something like that, and you would just erase the face. There's tons of different hairstyles hopefully, that just gets you excited to experiment and just make new ones. I don't even know. I want to look at a hat thing because there's probably so many cool hat type things that you can make for these characters. But this is a beauty in a rough sketch. I want to fix up the face now. Let me pause there so we can really fix up the face because it's looking a little rough. 11. Drawing: Now let's fix up our face and really get it finalized because it looks pretty good, but it can definitely look better. Let me go back to the regular face and I'm going to bring this layer to the top, and I want to make a new layer above it. I'm going to turn the opacity down pretty low. I think I'll use Disney pencil. This is just where you solidify your sketch, and we just clean it up. Let's start with the eyes. I'm at size eight. Let's see how that looks. That looks pretty good. You see I just make it a little bit thicker on this side by pressing a little harder. Again, I'm using a Disney pencil. I'll do the same thing with this side, and I just start pressing a little bit harder when I get to this area, like so. We don't need to copy every single line. That's one of the best things about making the sketch now, is we don't have to use all of these lines. For the bottom part of the eye, I'm just going to just generally put a line down here, and it's pretty good for the eye. We'll make this little line here. For the nose, you can put whatever nose that you had if you want to add some little details or some little nostril type things, you can do that. But I'll just keep mine simple. I'll just keep mine simple. I'll make this little round bit on top. You can see as I'm drawing, I have to think about what I want to do, and I have to experiment. That's just the way that I create, and I encourage you to do the same thing as well. For the mouth, I come down, will make our line there. I can make this nice and clean and I add a little darker spot to the edges. If you want to shade it in, I like to use Disney brush just to get a nice even shade. But of course, you can also just use the Disney pencil and go really sketchy with it too. I'll make the bottom lip. For the eyebrows, and now we're going to clean up the shapes a little bit. We just do the general shapes, which is very, very cleanly. I can't talk. Just very clean and very put together as compared to the rough sketch because we're just using the information from the rough sketch. Now the shape of the face is very, very important, and you can see the shape, but I'm going to make it a lot cleaner. I'm going to stick to the inside of the sketch. We want this line coming down. I'm going to make it nice and round and clean under the chin, and I'm going to try to match that over here and the straight line coming down, and I'm going to curve it around right under the chin. Then I'll go ahead and clean this up too. Nice round top of the head. Then the ears, I put the ears in. I just did the location of this one because it's still, for some reason, it just looked low. But I think that looks pretty good. Underneath, I'll do the same thing. I'll use our happy little circle for the eyes, like that. 12. Refining Hair: Don't ever have any shame for like tracing and things like that. As long as you're using it to work and to improve your skills, tracing can be very, very beneficial because it will just get you out of doing things that you might not realize that you're doing. The end goal is to be able to create these things yourself, but if you do trace and work hard, and then try to sketch things on your own, you'll get closer and closer to where you want to be. You can either get rid of the other sketch, but sometimes I just like to make it a little bit lower. I like having it there. I just think it looks nice to have that little bit of color underneath, that a little bit of depth and texture. Now we can figure out which hairstyle we want to do. I know I said I was going to do a couple, but I might just do the original orgy hair. Whichever hair you want, just bring that human to the top. I'll make a new layer above it and then I'll just lower the opacity. We don't have to there, it looks pretty good. I think the hair looks pretty nice, to be honest with you. I'll just go over the sketch a little bit better. I think this sketch actually looks pretty good. Sometimes I do this when I color. I'm just doing it to show you now, but sometimes when I color this in, I'll add some strands, it makes it look really good. I don't think I'm going to do this in this class, I'm going to do another class where we lined it up and add some color, so that'll be fun. Now, let's just merge the hair to the head. Like I was saying before, there's going to be an area here where you want to reserve for the forehead. Let's see, which layer am I on? I'm going to do all of this one on a new layer. If we want to adjust it later or get rid of it, or you want to start again, it'll be really easy. We want to reserve this area for the forehead. Just keep that space there. Foreheads are very, very important. Now, I'm just going to figure out where I want the part to be. How about right there? I'm just going to make some lines like this. Keep it pretty simple. I'll make a line like that. I'm going to curve that in. Like I said, just so it looks like it's going behind the ear, like so. Now I'm going to erase, I could do the other side first but, I'm going to erase these lines from the head. Now we have the hair there. It might be nice to actually bring the hair in front of the ear, like that. Doesn't have to be that thick though. Now this side, we'll just do similar lines like that, and we'll bring it down. Let's erase a little bit of this head. There's another reason why it's good to label your layers. [NOISE] Sketch eyes, hair details. We have some details here. Go back to our brush. I don't really like this line, so let's switch it up. I think that looks nicer. Yeah, I like that. Another thing I want to do now is erase parts of this head behind here. You can even erase that little ear. Let's go ahead and give her a little neck, and I just keep that pretty thin. I mean, it's lopsided. Pretty thin, right in the middle, and it's going to pull out at the bottom a little bit if you wanted to. But we're just going to do the head, so it's not really that important. But also the hair can block off most of that, even if she was wearing something. There is of a lot of other things you can do to get whatever the look you're going for. But I think, for now, we'll just keep it like this. 13. Final Touches: We can just add a little bit of extra texture, so I'm going to take Disney Brush. I made a new layer here, and I'm just going to name this, I'll name it Darker and this one is above this original rough sketch and below the eyes. With Darker Disney Brush, I'll just make it really big, and then just shade in the hair. I'm trying to do it all without lifting the Apple pencil up, so it's nice and even. Like so, that looks pretty good. We can make it really small. You can actually do another one here. Another sliver under the top part of the eye, and that'll make it look like it's a shadow from the eye and even on the bottom of the nose, too. It's a little bit of shadow and maybe the inner part of the ear. I'll lower the opacity to about 40, and then I'll also just shade in this eye socket here like that. Another trick, you can actually add some shadows from the hair if you like. I'll bring the opacity up and I'll just make it a little bit darker here as though there's a little bit of hair still there as well, so we'll just make that a little darker and a little bit under the lip too and under the head. Let's also darken this lip up. Here we go. I'm pretty happy with this. The only thing I want to do is bring this area down a little bit. There's a little too much forehead. Here's another little tip. You can take all your layers like this hair color. I need the hair color, I don't need that. I just need hair details and this darker. I've swiped on those two. I go to liquefy and then I can just push this down. Yeah, that's better and then I'll just find this line and get rid of it. There it is. I go to that layer and just erase this line. Another little thing that I love to do on these type of sketches, let's go ahead and take the color white or take white. I don't know why is it the color white. We'll go all the way down to Sketch Master. Actually, we will go to Disney G-Brush, Disney Butter. Sometimes I can't make up my mind. We bring the opacity down to 25 percent, and we'll do this on a layer right over the eyes. With our eyes right here, we want to make a layer right over them and we're going to use Disney Butter at size 25. Let's make some jelly beans. Just jelly bean-shaped from the bottom of the eye like that. Then we'll raise it up to 100 percent, we'll bring it down to about eight. Then we'll add a little spot of light here, and the same thing on this side. Just to really make the eyes pop. Here we go. I would say keep practicing, practice with the different types of hair. In the next class, I think we can line this up. We can do some linework and then we can also color this character as well. Let me know if you're interested in that because I think that'll be fun. There's so many things you can do with characters and with sketches. Just make sure to really concentrate on your rough sketch. Use big shapes. Really just think outside of the box. I hope that these tips will be helpful in your character design and all your characters that you want to make in the future. 14. Thank you! : [MUSIC] Well, that's it guys. Thank you so much for joining me in class. I hope that you learned a lot. I hope you are able to take a lot of the tips and techniques that I talked about in this class and just use them. Use them for your own characters. Just keep going, keep practicing. That's the only way that we all get better. As always, I'm really glad that you decided to take your time to take my class. It's always a pleasure for me to teach. If there's something that I can do better or different, please let me know because I'm also improving, and I want to be the best teacher that I can be, because this is fun for me and I hope that it's fun for you as well. Be sure to upload them to the class project because I'd love to see them. Also if you want to tag me on Instagram, Drugfreedave. I'm happy to share your work in my story, because of course I want to lift you guys up and maybe give you guys some Instagram swag. Be proud of your work. Post it. I can't wait to see it and I can't wait to see you in the next class. I think we'll use the same character. I'm going to do a few characters like obviously I have to do a male character or more masculine character, and maybe some expressions and things like that. There's so much that I can do. This is the first video. I think the next one will align this up and then color it, and then we can move on to a different character. I think we'll do it that way because there's just so much and I'm really looking forward to making more classes. If there something that you're interested in, please let me know because I'm here for you. I'll make whatever classes that you guys think that you want to see. I think that's about it. Once again, I really appreciate you guys. Subscribe on YouTube too, I have a lot of videos there, Procreate videos and just a lot of other contents, stuff there that you might like. As always, keep drawing, keep sculpting, and I'll catch you all in the next video. [MUSIC]