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1. Introduction: Do you want to draw
a cute TB animals and pets and an anime style? In this class, I will
guide you through drawing TB animals with cute
features and proportions. My name is Felicia
in IMA concept artist and instructor
at when Canvas. In the next set of lessons, I'll walk you through drawing
three different types of TV animals using
simple shapes, line art, and
coloring techniques. By the end of this class, you'll have brought
your cute animals to life with unique, lovable and squished
oval features. You're invited to follow
along with me step-by-step. If you're a beginner. Otherwise, feel free
to experiment with these techniques to create different animal
characters of your own. My demo is drawn digitally, but you can draw in the
medium of your choice. I'd love to see what
you create at the end. So please share your
artwork with our community. Have fun in class.
2. Sketching the Chibi Animals: Today we're doing
TB animals using your favorite creatures,
pets as inspiration. Chubby is a Japanese
slang, meaning short. So we're going to make exaggerated features on our
animals like stubby limbs, really big heads, and
really cute features to really get this
form a stylized art. So I will show some examples. We have little cows, and they each represent a milk. So we have chocolate,
strawberry, and I believe this is
banana or vanilla. So this is a simple
eyes cartoon version of them using very
stubby little limbs. So very rounded shapes
on this as well. And they are just two
adorable, usually TV styled. Our meaning that they
want to look really cute. So all of these animals that we're going to be making
today are going to be just cute since they are
small and round and chubby. Here are some examples
of axilla models. So this is a very fun
animal on itself. Artists rounded
out their features and kind of made it more simple. So instead of having all of those little fingers
that they have, this artists just
rounded it all out to just make this nub
or a little stub for their arms and legs
and also adding little rounded shapes for
the rest of their bodies. Kinda taking in the
style of anime as well. For their eyes, they have some bright highlights
in them as well. Not really a realistic sort of, I hear other sort of TV
animals, different types. There's tons here, that's a fox, dog, panda, all different
kinds of types. They're all just sitting down, prompt in their arms, right in front of
another but very rounded shapes and very small features. We don't want to go for
super realistic today. We are going super,
super simple. I will start with
my sketch today. I have a little
reference in the corner. You can see a little bunny here. This is my pet bunny. I will be doing HEB
version of him today. I'm going to have
him lying down. So in the similar position
as he is in this reference. And I'm going to
start with the head. So for the head, she be styles are very round. While I'm going
to start off with a very round head starting
off from the top, you're going to create this
little nub for his cheek, or almost end up
like a bean shape. This will be the
peak of the bunny. And I'll also very lightly draw a round shape for the head. I'm not sure where the head will sit once I'm done coloring, so I'm going to create
a placeholder for it. So just a round shape. His head here. This is just a sketch for now. So you don't have to
worry about having your lines super clean. If you have lines going across, don't worry about it. This is just our way of
getting our ideas down. Just by sketching. I'll start by reading
the rest of the body. The way his cheek will be. I'll just make a very round locked out of shape
for the body. Very short to the ground. So it's not a very tall bunny, very round, much more around
than you would normally see. Bunny egg around almost
like a low bunny will be a big fun reading that very big round edge
all the way around. Fixing up this
rounded shape here. I want there to be a little bit of a way where
he's sitting on the ground. So moving that rounded part
to the ground a little bit and you're going to have a little tail at
the back as well. A little fluff ball there. Now for the important
part is ears. And now we're a very
cute part for my bunny. I will do is face now for TV, any sort of characters, animals, you can use almost
like an anime. I, if you'd like for it, Animate likes to use lots
of shine and highlights. Into their eyes,
and that tends to make a character or
animal very cute. You can choose to have them
slain and solid for mine, I'm going to make
them quite round, almost like a oval
shape, not a circle. I'm doing an oval shape for mine and there
are decent size. I'm not making them
too big or small. I think I might have a
shine to mine as well. So I'm going to fill this
all in with one color. This will be all the same. And then using my eraser, going to the eraser tool and I'm kinda making a small size. I'm just using the dial to
make it a smaller size. And I'm going to erase a little circle in
the top of it there. A little bit of a glimmer. Almost like the sun is
shining right on them. It has a little
highlight in there. And then with that, I will make a little
bunnies knows. That comes down to as
both very small features. Here. I'm not really exaggerating all those little fur
or anything like that. This kind of keeping
it very simple. Add some whiskers as well. Let me just a couple where
I have my funny low. So this will just be
my sketch for now. I'm going to move it to the side since i'll
I'll do a couple today and then we'll continue with some lining and coloring. But for now I'll just do
a sketch or my next one. I'm going to do a
little sheep or a lamb, some sort of animal like that. I'm going to take reference
from the Pokemon Wu Lue, if you know wou, I just wanted to
do a little fun, fluffy sort of creature though. I will do that and I'm also going to have it
in a different pose. So this bunnies kind of sitting down and sit
in their comfortable, I'm going to have my
other creature almost like leaping or
galloping, right? So again, I'm going to
start with the head. Very similar to the bunny. I'm going to have it come down and I'm going to
make a cheek here. I think the side views or the animals are a
lot more fun to do, especially with that little
round cheek that they have. I'm just going to
make that rounded out very lightly drawn out where I want the
rest of the head to be. I don't think I'm
going to keep it. So that's why I'm
drawing super lightly. But just so I know where I
would like to sit there. And now I can do a
little fluffy parts. Though. This Pokemon Lulu has
lots of For all around her. I'm making almost like these little bubbly
patterns on her. Reading these really
rounded out shapes here. Or like her bangs. Look like bangs. This kinda following
that same style. Connecting these these, I guess they look
like little half sees with rounded out shapes and
it almost looks like very fluffy when you have
that round texture in your hair up here. Other big long piece. Horns humming it from
the side as well. And I will do their body. So for this lamb or sheep
sort of animal here, I know that they have a
long or a big round body. So what you could
do is kinda put a big circle in
shape their body. So you kinda have a good idea of where you want to put
all those details for. I'm just going to make
a really big ball. And then on top of this ball, I can move around it and do those herbs next to each other. Following that
circle that I made. Just adding those
big bubbly shapes. I'm going to bring
it all the way. At the end of her chin
here at the back, since this sheep will be
galloping or running. I have stubby little legs back
here around sort of feet. Not too much detail. The summer, rounded out
rectangles, almost. Not very sharp edges. When you draw chubby characters, they don't have lots of
sharp lines in the front. I have other feet big these
like a little bigger. Want them to be studied in this ears coming
off the side here. The one we'll be showing
maybe a little bit of the other one
on the other side. But it will be hidden since this shape is on a side angle. We'll just have it kinda. You can note from there. Now that I have the basic
body for my animal, I'm going to do the
cute little face, very similar to the
bunny eyes I have. I'm going to have
a build in ovals. And I'm also going to put
a cute little I liked. I might make them further
apart of grabbing my eraser again and putting a
light at the top. A little nose. She does
have a little smile, so I'll do that as well. Right there, my little
TV animals so far. All to a cat. A cat. That's what I was going to
do and I think it'd be cute. So starting with the cat, I'm just going to show you what I did before
starting with the head. For this cat. I'm also
making it a super round one. And it fits, fits
the CI Venus a lot. Make them super
short and around. It's also fairly funny
as I'm drawing it to. How unrealistic it is. Making a little stubs
for this cat's feet. So very round. And again, I'm not creating those
really sharp angles to it. There are no straight lines. Even if they're a straight legs. I'm adding a bit of
a round bend to it. But there are some
rounded edges. This just makes it
look super soft. Move my girl here, nice tail. Just fixing up a little
bit of my sketch. I have lines going
all over the place. We'll just clean it up a little. You don't need to, but
that's just my preference. I can see it a little better. And also so you can all
see the little better. Thinking if I should have a
little color on this guy. And I'll put a little, little heart as the little
medallion on them. I think with these
with these three, I can get started on
lining and coloring. Little bigger just
so it matches. Set them. Just kinda shaping them out
on my page a little bit, moving them around
where I like them. I'm using the lasso tool right now to select a
part of my drawing. And then I'm just going
to size them up a little.
3. Outlining the Cute Animals: So now that I have my sketch, I'm going to create a new layer. So I just hit this button
down here just saying Add Layer with a little age
and a corner folded over. This is the Add Layer button. And now I can align
over top of my sketch. So I'm going to make my drawing
a little bit see-through. So by using the opacity
slider up here, I can move it down a
little bit to about 50%. So I can have it a little bit see-through and I can
draw right over top. Going back to my bunny, I'm going to have a black
outline for this first. I might make it a
different color as I begin actually
coloring the bunny. But right now I'm just
going to work with black. I'm just going to go over my sketch following
the lines that I made. Just going right over it. So now I have a very
clean trying to work with instead of those little sketchy
lines that I made, I'm going to leave this
round bit that I made here. We're going to see if I actually
need to keep it or not. For now. I'm just going to read you
round portion of my funny. I'm going to rotate my
canvas just so I can get a better grip on the
angle that I'm drawing in. So my angle is a very awkward. I don't really want to
move my wrist all around. If you are ever finding
your hand is in an uncomfortable or awkward
position as you are drawing, you can rotate your page around and that sometimes will
help you with that. And they'll do the
bunny ear details. For any of the details that
I'm making on my bunny, they will be a smaller size as opposed to the
outline of my piece. So I'm changing the size
of my brush so I can add very thin outlines
to the details and a thick border for the
outline of my drawing. We want to make sure
that the outline is the first thing that
the viewer sees. As opposed to maybe like the whiskers on my bunny
or maybe the nose. Those will be much more thin. Yeah, using using
references is great. So you can learn from pictures. And then once you've learned, you can now kind of draw
it without the image. It's always a good
starting point to use references to learn. And then it's like
once you get to that point where it's like
you can grow without them, you can definitely
challenge yourself. Then after, like Brian, draw without using anything. But all artists need IID
references for everything. It's very, very hard to draw without looking at some
sort of reference. Even the, even the best artists in the world
use references. On my Lam, I'm actually going to be erasing these
little cheeks here. I feel like I don't need
to add linework to them. I can just kind of add them
in when I start coloring. So I'm just about done
my line work and then I can move on to coloring
my little animal. That's super exciting. It's always the most fun part.
4. Colouring the Kawaii Animals: So right now I have a new
layer for my coloring. I have it underneath my lining layer just
so I'm able to color right underneath those
lines and I don't have to worry about it going
over top of them, so I will start
coloring my bunny. So I start with the darks first. Though he ever
need to start with the shadows or highlights? Always start with your shadows. Highlights should be the last
thing that you worry about. That I have my sort of
brown coat on my body. I'm going to add some
little spots to him. He does have some orange, almost like ginger. First. Let's try to bite on
how I want to do this. That is very splotchy, but I want to be able to still
simplify it a little bit. So maybe I'll just do some
light sort of line squiggles, splotches sort of
thing around here. So some thick little
zigzags, maybe. I'm adding some lighter
colors so to the ear. Lighter little portions
inside picture. It doesn't go too much
over those lines. So I'm just getting
my, my brown again. I'm going to add some
lighter oranges is this little patch of hatches
that I've made on the body. So I have an if data set tone
and I'm just adding some, some later versions
right over top. So it has more variety to it and it looks a little
more interesting. Adding a little bit more detail than I actually planned on and making a little bit of
extra for which is not needed. Don't have to have
this much detail and just adding a little
bit extra to it. I thought I'd be a little fun. And I can't forget. Tail here does have a
little cotton ball tail. And make sure
that's all colored. Right, I'm good to my blue
here, light brown skin. I'll make sure to
fill it in here. If you have solid lines, are solid shapes
in your drawing, you can choose to use the paint bucket to fill in
those areas very quickly. Or you can just
kind of coloring it in like how I'm doing it. It's up to you and
your preference. Continuing with
this light brown, I'm going to go
all the way around picking out where I
have this brown color, then coloring it
in with my brush. Very similar to just
coloring in a coloring book. Billing rate in those solid, nice lines that you've made. And the nice fluff
that's going all the way around is a white color, but I am going to make it not completely white
since weight is very, very bright, I like
to tone it down a little bit and not
make it too bright. I will add a little
bit of color, maybe a bit of
yellow and butter. Cream. White is a very, very bright colors work with. So I kinda leave that for highlights or anything
that is just super bright. So for the ends, like a tan color right over top of those
little lines that I've made. Just filling in. The bottoms are these
little tips of Lulu's feet. A little pink color. I'm just grabbing
the same pink from the ear, putting it on there. Let's have a little a
little braids air that are a different
color from the rest. In this grade here
is also great. So I'll stop it right
at that bulb there. Where this, this last
round that kind of ends is where I'll
end that gray color. With this white. I will have a cream
going on. Instead. I create a background
color over everything. You can see how it is
not a pure weight. It is more of a little
creme of some sort. I think that just tones it
down just a little bit, makes it look a little nicer. Oh, one more little horns here. Almost forgot about. Those. Will be a nice brown color. I think I'll add a little bit
of detail on here as well. The braid portion, I'll have some highlights, little highlights here. So just by grabbing
a lighter brown, I'm just very lightly pressing
down with my opinion, lightly over that and create a nice little
highlighter glow to them. And also within, within the ear, a little bit of a darker
pink inside here, since this will be
a bit of a shadow. Adding a darker instead. Underneath the fur. I can also add a
shadow here if I like, going around the little
bubbles that I've made. And now I can see the
little kitty either make it a yellowy sort of cats. Hello here. Maybe for the color. The medallion might be silvery TO definitely want a
pink little nose them. Adding inside frictions. Around. Here's maybe we'll
have a different color. Maybe on the shine of my color, I'll have a little bit
to better highlight. Since this is a silver
little ag or medallion here, I'll add a little bit of a light shine up here. I'll add a besides in the body, we'll add some highlights
on this kind of, uh, making little
dashes, lines on them. Create little
highlight something. Here's a nice little
color for the background. Here's my little
finished pieces, but I hope you guys had
a lot of fun with this. I love the Chevy little style. It's super fun. So see you all later. Bye everyone.
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