How To Draw Cartoony Characters

1. Intro: Hello and welcome to ECE drawing cartoony characters. My name is Christa, and together we will learn how easy and families to draw. We will create funny and wacky characters. Go through drawing principles, him some tricks to help drawing your skills. I see myself as a storyteller. I think any medium can be used to tell the tale, can be a boot again, or an animated story. I worked on multivariate projects, written and illustrated books, develop games, anti-piracy. Having fun and just playing around can be a great way to free yourself and create something marvelous in person. This is the beginning of a great journey into your gradient world. Are happy to be your guide. Let's get started. 2. Warm-up and A Man With Moustache: So for this exercise, I will use two kinds of pencils, a blue one and the black one. This is just that you can make very rough round vowels with the blue pencil. And then I can do to clean up with a black one. If you prefer to use a pen or a marker or crayon, It's fine too. As long as you're sketching. It can be good to loosen up your hand a little bit before you start the exercises. And also it's about avoiding the fear of the blank paper. It's a little bit, but when you do doodling, maybe on a piece of paper, just do some lines like that. Maybe a few lines, straight lines like that. Just to get your nervous system up and ready and feeling loose and ready. I usually do is that I draw a very rough circle like this. Draw a square. And then I draw a triangle. Some basic shapes like this. Maybe if you wanted to, you, maybe we'll draw a very simple little character like this. In this exercise is not super necessary, but it's good if you start doing it. If you feel a little bit anxious, stiff. It's just about starting to having fun and experimental films, not carrying that anything is supposed to be super perfect. So something like that. So let's start by doing a simple, egg-shaped. As you see, I have very rough and loose lines. Simple egg-shaped like this. I think this is going to be a man. He will have a little bit of a potato knows, like days. Maybe. Big mustache, like dues, small little ice and put up some eyebrows like that. I think he will have very, very curly hair. Like this. My nickname is actually true lynn Swedish, which is a bit ironic at the moment, since I don't have so much hair. Then we're going to put a little line here to show where he's tries. Trousers are some small, tiny legs like this. Don't we go ahead and do sort of Aladin shoes. I love this shape. Almost like skis. Also draw out other shoe. And, um, let's see what he will do with his house. I think we can put one arm here and he's just holding it loosely against his body. When I do hands, I usually just do a circle like this to begin with. And done with the darker pen, we can draw more details like fingers, etc. His arm can go like this. And he might be holding something. Let's see what's going to hold. It's the same with this. When you draw that and just do a circle. And afterwards you can always add fingers like this. What do you think? What should it be holding? Maybe a flower can hold up. Beautiful, maybe almost like a sunflower. And it can look a bit like his hair with big leaves like this. And as you see, it's just doodling and don't care if the lines are crossing each other or if something feels wrong because he can't do wrong. Actually, this is just about playing around with having found him. This is actually a very good exercise to do for loosing up your hand. So you also continue to play around and start to think about little bit about his background. What is his occupation? Where does it live? What does he do when he goes to buy milk in the shop? You see a strange guy or a happy guy or grumpy guy. Add a little bit of stripes to his trial. So I think like this. There you go. This is the first rough. They alter the character. I think it looks quite good. If you want to add some other details. Please do. Feel free to find the size. So play around with the character. So now I'm gonna change to the black pencil. I will make the lines a little cleaner. And also more clear. As you see, even when I'm cleaning up, I have a very rough line. I usually do multiple small lines instead of having a very long line like this. And this is just my style. Maybe your style is more precise and simple line, but I always been drawing like this. Stood eyes. And I usually leave a little bit of a wrong white circle like that. It's just to give the character a little bit more life. You can try both to have them completely black or have them with this little light. I think it's nice that they are shying lame like this, gives the character a little bit more life. And big brushy eyebrows. When they do to clean up, I usually start with the face. If a character actually has a face, it's just easier to finalize the character when you put the most effort into this area. Continue with the trousers. Don't worry if you go outside the blue lines or if you feel you want to change something, please do business just about exploration and having fun. You can always use an eraser and go back. But I encourage you actually to just finished complete drawing. And Daniel's do another one. And it has continued experiment with the character. This is about learning. It's not about doing something very precise. Finally, going to feel them. This will start to look a bit like a referee, but maybe that's his occupation. Actually. He has continued to wear this kind of petals on his spare time. I'm going to draw out here. Maybe add a little bit of showing a finger to the other flower. Tight grip on this flower. So maybe the flower is very important to him. To shade. Norm, I ask him to do a very wobbly one line for the leaves. Lastly, the shoes. I'm done. I'm going to add a little bit stronger lines beneath the shoes. So this is to grow the character. Because when you add these lines, it looks more like it's actually standing on something on the ground. I usually also do very, very rough. Longest like this. Not super strong but a little bit wobbly and this is just so there's a little bit of shade. The nice the character. There you go, your first character, it looks really good. Yeah, this is really great. Very good. I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. Dancing Duck: So next we're going to do a little strange dancing duck. I think I'll start with a simple circle like this. Will be his belly. And I'm going to do almost like a bucket. I think. This. And when you draw a body with a geometric shape, think about the volume the bowl has. Imagine that it is transparent and you can see the whole shape. I will go over this later. So no worries. Just focus right now about having fun. It's not something that is super serious. It's just something that you can add if you wanted to. Same with this bucket. The base of it will also be same shape as this one. Next, I think we will add a little bit of dancing. Arms. Wouldn't be really dark. This is more like a strange creature, but just continue to play around and have fun with this character. And the next arm. Up here, a little bit of a firm. This adds a little bit of legs. I don't know what kind of music is listening to uninstall sing, but try to imagine what could be going on in these characters. Had last leg. Maybe he's stretching out a little bit like this. Welcome to add the beat. Sticking out a little bit from the buckets. Of course, he should be smiling like this. Add ice like this. So I can still remember when I was drawing together with my father and most about three years old and it was so great sitting with him and he just fantasizing about what you can put on paper. My father really, really loved drawing postbellum by the bicycle. And my father is not an artist or anything, but just some quality time we spend together. And I think that was actually start to Y0. So far. The things I do. So there you have the basics. Start to do the black lines. So it's time to start to do the like lines. In this stage, is this something that you are not super excited about? You can always take the eraser and maybe you don't want this line at all. Just remove it. So maybe it's how this more like this. You can always come back with the blue one or maybe he has a few hair pieces like this. Ms. More fun for you. Let's fill this in. I don't know what this hairdo is actually called. Should maybe invited some kind of name for it. And as in previous drawing over and started to have these white spots giving the character a little bit more of a life. Continue with the B. Make sure that you put into it a little bit of a smile for him because he's so happy when he's dazzling his nostrils. Or maybe it's not. Maybe it's the CI, or it can put all kinds of attributes to your drawings and always swap them and change them later on. Fees, almost like this is kind of robot arms almost. Maybe it's a robot, robot, duck. Baryonic dancing, whose sole purpose is to make people happy. This in the previous drawing of allowed some weight to the character by adding strong lines where the feet touch the ground. I'm also add a little bit scribbly lines like this. Give him a little bit of a shadow. The stronger the lines you make them more importance goes into it. Because contrast and strong parts out of focus, what you're supposed to look at. So if you withdraw very way guys, it's very hard to see you them, but if you feel the minimal, the focus goals into that, I feel something is missing. Maybe we should add something here for his chest. It could be maybe bottles like that. Maybe has some sweater on. Or we can remove this. Maybe he has some kind of superhero symbol there. What really Superman, but something similar like that. I'm not super. When it comes to cleaning up. This is just a sketch. It's just about having fun. So if you're drawing look very messy, it doesn't matter. It's actually quite good because that means that you are experimenting. Really interested in learning. So it could be a super dark, the dancing mechanical, super dark. If that's the best superhero name, but it's quite good. Here we go. Fill in, but the DLL bit, like this, we can add a little bit of shade. Since this is quits big bowl to give it some more about volume. So there you go. It's your first superhero, mechanical dancing Duck. Very good. Next lesson will be something, well, I don't know. Let's see what we'll find out. 4. Cheese Lady: So let's see what's up. Next thing we are going to start with triangular shape. Like dubious. Wonder why it can be maybe a pair of legs like this. I think. What kind of shoes it should be maybe should be some kind of wooden shoes. I think it's called clogs and English. Probably realized that right now that English is not my native language, but I do hope you can understand what I'm saying. So paralogs and a little face, eyes and nose, a big smile on some, maybe some buck teeth. Being really keen on cheese lately. So I think I will do this. Like cheese or someone who is made out of cheese. I don't know if you like cheese or not, but I can't resist it. Like this. I want to add a little bit of dimension to him. I will do the job also. They don't have to do at this party if I don't want it, you can add it to very flat character, but this case I preferred to this piece on them. You can also do that. The holes are eating away a little bit of the edges, something like that. Don't add pupils. Maybe he's a little bit slightly actually, I didn't know. You can also add lashes like this. So the character looks more female. So it's actually a she's a woman. Well, yeah, I think so. That's interesting. Um, before we start doing with the black lines, maybe she asked a little compound him. Maybe there's little rat sitting here. The wrath is really putting his nose up. Ars sauce and smiling. Because the smell of cheeses, delightful. And don't forget to put tail. Yeah, something like this. Let's start with the nose. Doing the ice. She should have a really big sparkling or ice lashes. Maybe there's some mascara there too. Just like that. Can also shade the top eyelid a little bit like that. And you have the slide on the teeth. Maybe she should have some lipstick. Little bit more shape of our mouth. Like that. Yeah, this looks good. A little bit of shading underneath the nose. We can continue with this G spot. He also tried to randomize the holes. This looks more natural. So not all of the wholesale have the same size, the same distance to each other. Of course, if your patterns start to be a bit too, even have this effect that it's, doesn't look so natural. It looks more like it's man-made, like it's like a pattern over wallpaper or something like that. So we also try to randomize the whole side a little bit. They don't have to be super dark. All of them, some of them might be a little bit lighter. And then put shading to give the character a little bit more depth. Strength, fingers line. It looks like it's coming more out to you. What kind of flavor Do you think this lady has? Is that a jeder lady or a dimer or what is your favorite cheese? I continue with her legs. Maybe the legs is more like she has some kind of sucks on. Just like that. I can show you them also a little bit Good. Put even a little bit more stronger shade just underneath this shape. And then you do this, you see that the legs are going under, beneath the shape. The clocks. I'm not worn clogs for very many years. Award them almost every day during the summers when I was a kid, but not worn them since. As we've done before, the contact with the surface underneath make the lines a bit stronger. That's the C. I'm I'm I'm not very precise. This is very aware of roughened. When you start to be too precise in the beginning. It means that you stiffen up and it's not so good actually, it's better that you are loose and wide and maybe make it a little bit of my mistakes. But that's actually how you find the true character and the two lines. Because you will draw this character many, many times and eventually you will find what you're looking for. So don't worry about it being messy or anything like that. Just to have fun and try to explore the character. Make this a little bit stronger, a little bit. And you see that if you have very small, overly also do extra Sarah. If you haven't lived with very small pupils, where you have an eye with very much pupils. The expression of them is quite different. So this is something you can experiment with two, because usually when you have big round pupils like this, you get the warmer person and if you have smaller wells day it looks kinda look scared over history. I'm just going to emphasize the mouth and the teeth so they have almost the same value as dy. So this is sticking together and now you see that you have more focus in this area. Lastly, we will do the rats. In this case, I didn't draw any from Paul, say ISD, the feed for it and I think I will keep it like that. I don't usually go with that. It's very important that everything is an atomically correct or a person should have this much house or feet or dose or whatever he sells. I usually go with the feeling I get when I'm drawing something. It might look a little bit later, but it's my style and I like it. I like it a lot. The ears and the eyes are closed. Closed. Smile. Lastly, we have the tail. Sometimes that might look like a worm or something like that. Books. When I draw red tails, prefer to do it like this. Just to give it a different kind of texture. Why not? Do the rats a little bit more fluffy tails? So it looks like it comes out from the Tumblr. Maybe it's like this kind of route that likes to lie in the clubs that people very, very hairy. Little bit of shadow collected characters a little bit on the ground. And there you go. Your first cheese lady, maybe. It looks great. I hope you had fun and learned a lot. Remember to practice not to eat. Just one cell, tried to do it as many times as possible. And you will find and develop new ideas every time you do it. Good effort and see you in the next lecture. 5. Monkey Guy: So the next character, I think he's going to be maybe a little monkey for Mukesh creature. Let's see. I'm wondering if you should have some kind of Dory. Oh, dorsal, big hubs. Let's explore the face a little bit more. A little bit of a nose. Like a pug pug nose. Of course, a big smile outside. And doing what he loves. Oval-shaped eyes like this. Some small hears. Wonder if you should have this kind of whimsical curly hair. They can explore it later. Then we bring out the black pen. A little bit of his gym like that. I think you should it's locked but Dallas or something he's holding is it sounds like it's ski sticks. Could be bananas if you'd like to. It's no problem. Sticks. Hello, This part I don't know what it's called in English. I'm not going to even try. It will be your somethings. So English sticks like that. He's long, bulky arms like that. Done his body, his chest. So small legs like that. One little foot in front of the other. So he has ski sticks but most keys, Let's quiet. Okay. He's outdoorsy. Doing what he loves. Don't worry about the lines or anything else to explore and try to find a shape, see where it goes. Eventually you will be very, very good at drawing. And this is the way out to do it. Very easy and very simple. Yes, play around and have fun. Let's start with the black pen. I think I will start here with the hands. If you want to add some locals like that, or if you prefer, you can just have a round shape, but doesn't matter. Just draw what you feel is natural for you. I will do the locals here on this side to this fingers, as you see, I don't draw four fingers. I drove. I don't draw five fingers. I mean, I draw four fingers. So this is something that comes from the animation side. Is that why animated characters, all four fingers, is it justice easier to animate? It's faster than have broken, but five fingers. This has transferred over all so today illustrations. But if you prefer to draw as a real lab, just to add another finger down below the top of the ski sticks. So down here, why I'm started with the hands is actually this is going to be quite a strong part. Because if I make this lined more black, there was stand out a little bit from the back with a body and arms that's a trunk. Continuing to be this t-statistics. I know my mother is usually using ski sticks when she assault exercising, so maybe this is the front of my mother. When they are walking. You never know. The tips. Then I will do like I do with the contact points with the feet and shoes, etc. I will add some extra pressure down here. Statistics are realistic into the ground. And he has a really, really long arms. So I suppose he's very good at using these sticks. Now it's time for the face. I believe this little glimmer of life in the size. Also I think I will change change his little Seville, but maybe it's more like this. Mismo. If you want to, you can always the little time that is sticking out. A little bit blue sites. Bit different from the rest of the face. Big smile. And as I said in the earlier lessons, is about exploring, don't worry about the lines. They don't have to be perfect or anything. This is just about exploring. And eventually when you have done this enough times, you will find your own way of drawing that feels natural to you and you will find your own style. Come back to. I wonder if you should have some kind of jacket where the little bit of bottles like that. It looks quite fashionable, but actually maybe estimate this Gore-Tex equipment. Cross covering in the mountains, soar, countryside. Done. I'm just going to add a little bit of shadow. It doesn't have to be a lot. To bring all of this together. Blue line. As you see, the stronger lines you draw, the more contrast and the more focus goes to that place. Under stronger I make these lines, the more they pop up from the rest of the picture, the rest of the drawing. So you can experiment with that a little bit. You can do a drawing, but everything is almost equal. Let's see how that feels along that is very, very exaggerated that these lines are pure black. And see how that works. A little bit shallow in the back here, on the arms. There you go. Maybe it's not really a monkey man, but let's say it's called a monkey with the ski sticks is just out. Having a nice walk. There you go. Your skis, the monkey, ma'am, congratulations. See you in the next lesson. 6. Girl With Candy Canes: Okay, so the next character that we go to play with is, I think it's going to be a little girl. The big round head and a nice pretty dress. Draw a bowl. Little small, almost triangular. She's going to have big beautiful eyes. Little, little little, little smile like that. Put some small ears. I don't know what kind of hair tszuj job what do you think? Should she have braids or maybe a big hairdo or small hairdo? I think she should have small prints like that. I think. Sure. Shirt, skirt, what's short skirt? See my English. It's going to have a little bit of a different color pattern here. She's going to have timing legs. Should have tiny shoes, but with a little little heel like this. I'll let you work down. She's she's holding something holding something in one lower this part a little bit so it doesn't interfere with I think she's holding a candy came. When I was a little kid. We used to do this kind of Keynes. Liver. Very, very sweet. We loved them. Wonder, Have you ever done a candy cane by yourself? Maybe you should try. Of course, she's looking at her or sweets. And done in the other hand, what she can be doing with her other hand. I think she sold them to candy canes. Actually. It's good to have two wheels to have them spread apart. Case you eat to false. As usual, don't worry about that. Everything is supposed to look neat or anything. Just play around with the shapes and see what you can find. As I said earlier with the ice is that if there are big and round, if you have the pupils, really big, diameter, it looks very cute. Just like that. Of course, you can add some eyelashes to. Also paint out a little bit of texture. Just so you have to feel on how the hair looks like. Let me should do some black lines. I got to start with that ice. Since they are going to be an important part of this drawing. And as I said earlier also, you can always switch to a character from voice to girl to whatever. Maybe in your drawing some time it will be a boy holding a candy cane. When I draw ears, I usually ask to add a little bit of this shape. I will draw it a little bit bigger. I usually draw something like this. Just to simply valued version of how the ear actually it looks like it works. Maybe she has gotten something that we call in Sweden is called Saturday candy. Because back in the days when I grew up in Sweden, we only got candy on Saturdays. All other days was forbidden to eat candy cane over K. In hindsight. But when you're a kid and you know, there's candy in the house and you really want to eat it and you have to wait till Saturday. Oh my God. They always tried to get your parents to give you candy before Saturday him. But my parents wasn't quite straight, so I think he was in the long run towards good. Continue with the shoes. She's quite fashionable. Fashionable shoes. Let's come out of the lycopods. Little bit of shadow underneath her dress. And I wonder about what kind of pattern we should have for the dress. What do you think? Maybe should be? Checkered dress? Something like this. Almost like to show support. That looks good to me else got to fill it in black. So there we have it. Go with her. Saturday, candy, being happy and she's full of anticipation to eat the sweets. Very nice. So, see you in the next lesson and continue to have great fun. 7. Two Cats: Flat Vs Volume: In this lesson, I think we should draw two cats, one that is kind of flat and one that has volume. So you can see the difference. We start with the character is flat. I'm just going to draw almost like an egg shape, but not completely. And it will be a little bit as symmetrical. Find characters that are to submit metrical a little bit boring, so I always try to mix them up. We will add a little tail and tiny, tiny feet like this. And I'm, the face is going to be around here. The little nose to small eyes like this, and a little mouth. Whiskers. I usually just use three lines for whiskers on either side, you can add more if you want to. Change this to character a little bit. So just play around with it. And then we're going to add two-way beers. Like that. Is Katie is kind of fat, so well-fed and probably has a good home. Just going to define the body a little bit better. Yeah, something like that. This is going to be the flat Kitty. Next to it. I will draw something that has more volume. I was taught, start with the body. There's going to be a bowl. On top of that will be the head. That is also a bowl. And as I mentioned earlier, we will think about the volume for this character. So imagine if the body ball is transparent, you can see the backside like this. And then the ball is not completely straight forward like this. We turned a little bit. So it's a little bit from the side like that. Don't worry about it. It's supposed to be super perfect. This is just an exercise to start to think about. While you also just play around with the lines. And we'll start to imagine how things have volume. And then we'll do the same with the head. Like this. You have two squares. You can see the volume. What do you bio-metric shape of both of them. And then we're going to add feet for this one too. Little paws. Nobody else to add on this slide. Back foot. Just like that. And I will add, um, it will be quite thick. So fluffy kitty. If you want another shape or another kind of tail, please do. Feel free to find whatever you think is best for this character. We're going to add a little triangle. Like this. Will make the ice a little bit bigger for this cat. I'm going to add the little mouth. Can be kinda cute, but if you wanted to smile, they can use to add little shape on both sides like this. Looks more happy. This one is maybe a little bit grumpy or concentrated. Maybe it wonderous about this cat, why it's shape is different. Now we've allowed airs for this one to the other. Ears will be here. Like this. Now you see when you have a swear in the bowl, you can start to imagine that this area is fixed to the ball here and other one is on the backside so that air is actually fixed to the wall behind this shape. I will draw the d tastes later with a black belt for, for the pause. Should have pupils to they are looking at each other. As cats usually do is I can stare at each other for hours. Our care dislike that. It doesn't like to be inside. So it has been linked with living outside for five years now. And there's quite a lot of cats in the area on their their hobbies like staring at each other for hours. They don't do anything and it seems to be a good occupation for them. Oh, I forgot to put whiskers on this one. It will be a little bit there will be a little bit wobbly like this. This looks good. Now for the black pencil, a little bit of cleanup. Start with the tail. Looks almost like the candy cane. Actually. I think this drawing is spilling over into this one. If you prefer to do these drawings on a single sheet of paper, please do. If you think this is getting too messy, I prefer to put all the characters together because they are integrating with each other eventually. But you should feel free to do whatever you feel like. If you want to draw them all singles or foot, all of the drawings from the same paper. That's up to you. Okay. Let's make sure to get this really felt. I know I'm allowed as usual, the contact to the ground. Let's put a little bit more on toes on the cat like this. Then the nose, little mouth. Actually don't put the white spot in the eyes. And you will see that the cat looks completely different than compared to the other characters. It doesn't have that spark or anything. It looks more like. Maybe. This is why I asked you to experiment with different shapes and different ways of filling things because it changes your character in a way that might be very good. Continue with the cat with volume. And as I see, I'm drawing. So this shape is on top of this one a little bit more forward. Because this is important when you draw lines later on, is that depending on how you put the lines, it will make the character or the shapes shift a little bit for them backwards. If I would have done, done two opposite here, drawing these lines on top of this file, it means actually the head is on the backside, the ears. And the same here. I'm drawing this line on top of the air that is actually the shape is here. But when drawing like that means that this part is on the backside of that. I think I will draw some petals are located on the cat later on. Lots. Sure I not decided yet about what kind of pattern should have. I'm just going to say when you draw a nose and you want to have it like a sparkle or that it is a little bit wet or whatever it is, you can always leave a little bit of light, like with ice, and it gets a little bit of a different appearance. I think I will make this cat a little bit cross-side, because some cats are really, really cross-side. They look really cute. So I shifted ice. So it's actually more looking at something else, then please get that and under or blue whiskers, something like that. Some toes. Also for the poor. That's going to make some of the lights a little bit stronger of the weight. The cat. You feel that it's sitting on the ground? Yeah. Something like that. Know about what kind of pattern. I don't know what you want to prefer, but I think I will do. But it has a little bit of a black black spot on the table. And I think I will make just, let's see, this kind of pattern. It's a little bit cartoony. Maybe not yet looked really looks like that, but still this kind of pattern. If you want to make it spotty or thicker lines that wherever, please, please do. Feel free to. Whatever you feel is good for the cat. Something like this. I think I will make the ears little bit darker also. On the same path down here. Super cute. Fill the member a little bit. It looks almost like the hairdo object, eula, from the black and white. Little bit more focused on the eyes. No, no, we'll do some shallow part connecting the character. So they actually sitting in the same spot. I guess continuing with my wobbly lines. So it's not super precise, but they are describing a shadow fitting together. So now we have two cats. One that is very flat, it doesn't have super much volume. One that has a lot of volume. And they have very different kinds of characteristics. None of them are right or wrong. It's just different ways of drawing and try to experiment with the other characteristic that you have drawn so far and see if you can make them very flat or make them very much with a volume, maybe add some more shadow to them. Like if I draw. But add some shadow here for the cat. May even make a little bit darker. So the bowl form is showing more like this. See what happens with the shape that you're working with. Don't worry about destroying your drawings. This is exercise. Exercise is so it's just about finding and learning and having fun. Of course, that's the most important thing when you draw actually is to have fun. That is actually why you will go back. Continue to draw again and again and again. This is about having fun, because if it gets too serious, it actually destroys her motivation. That's not what we're after. We are about having fun and learning. And there you go. Two cats, volume versus flat. See you in the next lesson. 8. One Face : Four Ways: In this lesson, we will draw four phases. And it's actually going to be four different versions of the same simple phase. We'll start by drawing four circles. Very simple ones like this. A third world. Don't worry, they don't have to be exactly the same size. We asked him to be circles that are almost the same. It's not super important. So there you go. They have four circles that will be the start of the faces. And I will draw guidelines. The circles. This is to help to place the different shapes that will be part of the face. We've drawn all of them. That's the same, not super important, that is hundred percent the same place or straight lines or anything. Since the awesome exercise, you go. The first phase I will start to draw is going to have a simple roundels. You can place. It should be about where dislike goes. There. You have the nose and then we'll have two big eyes like this. Gills tells them a little bit connected to the little slide that why you draw guidelines like that is because you can see it's very much more simple to actually place the eyes and nose and everything in the more symmetrical place. Symmetrical way. When you've been drawing a lot of times, you don't need these slides, you will actually see them in your head. They're already there. I think he musters. Right? Yeah. Something like that. Quite big pupils, eyebrows. Maybe it looks like it looks a little bit surprised. I don't know if you can hear it in the background while the birds are singing. Happy that spring arrives. They will not interfere too much. Mustache. And remember that the ears, you're asking me clear off this line a little bit better. And they will be quite centered around this line. On this slide. I will draw the same shape as I did in an earlier exercise like this. Also the opposite, reverse like that. I think she will have fewer hair lines like this. Little bit messy hair. There we go. When I was taught with other one. And this one, I will draw the nose much further down like this and it will not be wrong. It will be oval, oval shaped. Like this. Mustaches. More droopy. He's ice is going to be more round. These are more although who drove them or wrong? All right. Sharp from the lines a little bit here. And then he will be I think he will be cross-side actually like that. On his ears will be up here instead. Lets you see when you move around, is basically the same kind of objects. You get a totally different kind of character. This exercise is about just playing around and seeing that if you have filed something that you really like about the character, but there's something that is, something that is missing. It isn't a good way to actually play around with the character until you actually find the perfect way of drawing that character. And then I think, I think the hair will be like this with his character. I could come over. Summer was young too little. You have done them do the later part of life. And let's see the third character. I think his nose is going to be more like a triangle, like that with the rounded edges. And his eyes are going to be I think they're going to be oval like this, this kind of shape. I'm using the guidelines to get the same distance between the placement. I think he's mustaches going to be quite big actually. Maybe not the right, really the same shape. I think he's going to be looking like this big moustache. The finding the head shall deface little bit stronger. His ears are going to be placed the same as this one. They will be centered around this line here shape or a simple like this. And I think he will he will be looking down like this. Maybe isn't very tall character. So he's actually looking down when he's talking to someone. I think his eyebrows are going to be quite big. Like his mustache. So a bit like this. Maybe this character doesn't have so much hurried. Maybe his bold else to fill it look like this. The fourth character. I think we're going to make him quite a symmetrical. I'm also let's see. I think she's snow says Come to be more protruding almost like you're like this. Like a banana shape. I'm just going to have one big, I'm smaller, one that is squinting a little bit. Mustaches is gonna be very curvy like that. This one is figured other one like this. On this side, he has a very big eyebrow. This one here somewhere is much smaller. As you see. You can make a character very symmetrical, or it can make us play around with it and see what happens if everything is all lined up. His eyes. I think maybe he's looking up little bit like this. Defining the outer edges. And that's usually just play around the worry about the lime supposed to be perfect or anything. This is just an exercise to help you grow your skills. Course. The most important part when you draw ways that you're actually drawing is not about how good it is or what kind of paper or pencil or whatever you think is the rules is just about drawing it. I'm putting in. Fun and effort into it. I think his ears is going to be, maybe this one is a little bit almost droopy like that. This one is going to be quite big on this side. Yeah. Something like that. Let's think he's hair is going to be little bit more wide like this. Maybe solved racing his car or something. Or maybe you put a lot of hair gel into his and his morning routine? Yeah. Something like that. And I'm going to clear off the lines. Starting with the nose. Should know eyebrows. Fill in, the mustache shows quite dark. If you want to make the most protrude a little bit sticking out, what you should do is to add quite a strong black line underneath like this. You see the more I feel that in the longer, longer it produce above the mustache. And underfocus goals into this area to same with the eyes. Can have very strong pupils. Eyebrows cell so you can little bit more black to it. Here's feel when we got even more. Maybe yes, woke him up in their ear shape like this. Here with the eye ears. If I will draw this line completely wrong, it means that the air is, will be on the backside or might, might be some hair in the way. You can always play around with this and see what happens. What happens if you draw the line up to a little bit like this? That means that this part of the air is behind the, this part of the face. Same will happen up here also. If I do like this. Well, it looks like there is usually only do this part a little bit. And the rest will be, let's say that this character actually has some hair I will use to add air to it. Your style here I can see the Harris covering this part of the array. Then continue with the second character. Start with the nose. True being mustache. Pupils will do the same when it smells also has more black lines underneath here. Out of this character, I will not put an a minus on top. Well, they're just sticking out two number lines for the same here, like we did with the nose. If you add a little bit more, dark children leads to mustache. You lift it out from this part of the face. The shim. Second character. Then we go to the third one with the triangle nose. Otherwise, this character looks a little bit scary and this is why there's a huge difference. How you draw the eye shapes. Round eyes usually means in the cells. It looks cute. More open. If the character is squinting. Get to cope, lead to different appearance. Is also the same way how you angle the eyebrows. Imagine that we will draw the eyebrow more angular like this. It means actually, this angle means that you're not angry. You're maybe curious or wandering or maybe does to you while you're smiling. If you will draw the eyebrow more towards the middle, I like that. You can see it looks more angry. So please play around with these kind of features and try different shapes, some methods of getting where your character is supposed to go. The monsters. This one in to the strength of the leaf, the moves like that. This is same here. If you want this to. A more important to some more volume, can be us to add more dark lines like that. And they were beautiful pop-out. Them to go to the symmetrical character. See how he's doing. You know, if he's driving a car or maybe he's found in his hair, something is going on. At least. You can actually see that he is probably thinking about something. Just imagine what your characters have going on in their head. That can give you great ideas to how to evolve the character and add or subtract things. Like, what kind of clothes does the character have? What kind of environment is the character? Is it eating something special or occupation doesn't have? As you see here, if I draw the eyebrow very close to the eye, gets a different appearance of the character. It looks more stern. If you go even higher up with this one. It looks more curious or surprised. If you have a little bit more on distance between the eyebrow and I can either remove a little bit of blue. Almost like in the warm-up. Just do vary wildly. Lives, living wild and crazy. When this character, I think we will just be a team player. Like that. There we go. Four different characters, but based on the same shape from the first one. And they have completely different appearance, demeanour, and personality. So please continue to play around with this exercise. And you will find very exciting characters. Good luck. 9. Simple Perspective and Depth: In this lesson, we will go through simple way to draw perspective. And this is to help get dumped thing or drawing away or simulate depth on a flat surface. So if you can imagine that you have a stick almost like a pencil. It's round and you will draw it straight from the side. It will look like this. Like a rectangular shape. What will happen if you will see it more from the side? We will be looking like this. It'll be around the sides. And you will see this side. This looks a little bit more interesting maybe than this, this shape. But imagine that we will really turn it out like this. So this side is going to be much, much bigger. We will use the same shape. Here. Imagine that you have the shape going bad. We'll draw the same thing here. But this slide is very much bigger. It's very close to worry. It doesn't have to be perfect shapes. Describing the shape. This will look something like this. Make this troll or two, since it's closer to you. It's the same object. It's just described in different ways. Here it's very, very flat. Here you start to see some volume Hello of southern here. This is really popping up towards you and I will also fill this in then black, then you will see even a bigger difference. So the flat version first show where you just see the slide, but it's still quite flat. And then this one that is much more treaty like that, that would make this stronger since it's closer to, you know, you have three different ways of drawing the same object. None of them is right or wrong. It's just different ways of describing your drawing your picture. And you can always elaborate around by using these shapes and see what is right for what you're drawing. Next, we're going to draw apparel, legs, some feet. Imagine that. You'll see the legs like this. Very straight. Then you have your feet sticking out like this. Quite straight lines and it looks quite flat. But imagine if you were actually watching your feet from your point of view, you're looking down. All of a sudden. It will look something like this. So your feet and legs not have the same proportions anymore. Instead of a straight line I will make around like they understood this. Instead of having the feet this size, I will make them even a little bit smaller. To show that they are further away. Like that. Then you have a perspective going down into the ground. This cool look much more interesting. To describe the direction you're looking down on something. Maybe this person is actually. Standing next to the seaside looking at some fish. Or maybe he's looking down to try to find a kitten that has been hiding in the kitchen. And the volume of the legs like this. So there we have two different ways of describing the same kind of barreled eggs. I'm just trying to find what is most interesting for your character. So imagine that you have a character where your strawberries, simple character. Round head. Looking sideways, still nose and eyes? Yes. Simple arms and hands, something like that. Standard like this. With his feet angled like that. And how to describe a little bit more depth because if it's straight from the side, legs will be the same size. Would only be the difference as this leg is closer to you than the other one. But what would happen if we want to have some perspective of this? I will just enlarge this area. He imagined that his legs are going down like that. And then you have the first foot like this. I will just make it a little mirror looking like a shoe them this shape. Instead of drawing them equally. To get a little bit more depth into your picture, the other leg is better, that is a little bit smaller. I'm also imagine that if you have lines going to appoint over here, something like that. A simple point. That means that if this foot is this big and it follows the same form of this line, the other foot is supposed to be behind it. It will be, they're going to, they're like that. Hello dislike, but also like this. All of the sudden you have perspective into your picture and it gives a better dynamic. Somebody just clear this up by drawing a stronger line, sir. More black. The contact to the ground. You have this Voltaire trousers. So bias drawing, support lines. It's much easier for you to get a little bit more perspective in your picture. So imagine if you could draw a character. A simple one from the front. Body. Harms. Very, very simple character. Smile. Some years, something like that. I don't like that. We'll make two examples. Emergency that you will draw a similar character that's about the same size and they're standing next to each other. Looking like this. That will mean that they are quite flat towards you. But what will happen if you actually draw them in some perspective? We will do that together. You can place this dots almost everywhere, but let's say that this is about the same height as the withdraw the Dr. about there. We'll draw guidelines to that dot the tip of his feet. Something like that. From the edge always had the same line. Shoulder, showbiz. Know if it's a skirt or whatever it is, it looks like you're visiting aliens. Maybe, you know, you have guidelines, toolbars, all the body parts. Then you really ask, decide about where to place the character. Say that you want to have them above this area. So you know where the shoulder is supposed to be, not where the head is supposed to be. Like this. Draw the facial features. Stress. The other arm, his legs, his feet. Just like that. And all of a sudden, you have a perspective, a depth into your picture. And this is how the brain works. If the character looks quite similar, your brain will say that, well, if they are similar, this guy must be further away to make sense. And this is actually how you can trick your brain. Will also fill in the lines to make it clearer. Because your brain is always trying to make sense of what you see. Like there's no worry about the precision. Practice. Remember that? Let me just add a little bit of shade for both. A little bit. Of course, to still be a little bit of shade on the ground. What too much? Let's make sure that the lines on this character is stronger, the lines of this, well, to help gain more depth into the picture. There you go. Very simple perspective rule. Draw your character, place a point, draw guidelines. And then you can place maybe a third guy back here. And yells, continue to play around with this. Imagine that you have two characters standing next to each other. Will continue to do this very simple form. One here. One here. You'll see the upper part of the character. His nose, eyes, Little smile. Simple, air. Like that. Same here. So they look almost the same, quite similar. Imagine that the characters are holding their hand in front of them towards you. But this is two ways of doing it. Hi, do you draw the hand? Like this? Maybe it's just saying hi or friendly wave. Like this. Somebody else clear away the other lines. We'll fill this in with black. There we go. The blurred. So you can actually see what's going on. Like that. The rest of the shape. This is also a thing I usually do is that to describe the shape of the hand inside of it. Almost like when I draw the areas that I usually do this form for the thumb. Then I draw a line here. Something like this, is just to give some shape to the palm. So this guy is holding out his hand. You can feel it. But what will happen if you exaggerate the hand a lot? And you make it much, much bigger. Like this big, very, very big. So remove old lines a little bit, make it a little bit clearer. Shape. You see, you immediately get another kind. But attention to your drawing. When you accelerate the shape. This much. I will always fill in the rest of its fields that the hand and the arm is really sticking out towards you. Feel a little simple. Face shapes like that. Making much stronger black lines around the home too. There you see. Same character, same but completely indifferent ways of doing it. The other way of describing perspective that you feel that this hand is coming towards the camera, gives more drama to the picture. I don't say that this slide or this is right or wrong or whatever. It's just a different way of describing the same situation. But in this case, you make it more dramatic. So please choose whatever you feel is right for your drawing and continue to have fun and experiment with this. Maybe it's a foot sticking out or maybe he's holding out ice cream or whatever your thing you can have as an example. And try to experiment and elaborate with these shapes and forms. Another way to describe that is to work with shade. Let's say that we have there. Just draw a simple egg-shaped two little legs, feet. Snow, nose. Here's maybe a little hats. Little top hat. Fancy. I'm just going to leave the house long to sites like that. Clean up the lines and make them more. Then you can maybe start to imagine what kind of bear disease. Summary. Good thing to do when you're drawing. Just let your imagination go. Let's see where it leads you. Down the nose. A little bit crooked, looks a little bit of smile. Find his toes a little bit. Yeah, something like that. Done. Imagine that there is another character standing behind him appearing out like this. Let's say that this character is some kind of a cat, maybe straw simple slot for this cat too. And you shouldn't have a triangle. Nose, eyes. It will smile. Something like that. You see these two character has quite equal value, so they are quite flat together. If I start to define this character more strongly, usually add weight. Under his feet. Can be quite rough. And his little hat, it's probably gone to some fancy tea party or something. So now you see that since the lines are stronger, this character is coming out little bit and this is going in the background. Let's come out a little bit of shadow to this. There you go. If you may dislike stronger to. The character will also be coming closer up to the foreground. If these lines have the same value there, like on the same position towards you. And what you can do is that if you add very slight shade to this character, doesn't have to be very stroke. Something like that. You'll see this character is going more behind the bear in the front. You can exaggerate the line here too. This is a very simple way to describe the depth of field. Just add a little bit of shade and you can experiment with how strong shadow you hope to have. Maybe this character is really going into the dark, almost like a silhouette. I'm just trying to go forth and back when you're doing this exercise. I'm trying to see while I was working the best for the picture or the drawing you're doing at the moment. 10. Pirate With Parrot: In this lesson, we're going to draw a pirate. The parents, why not use the girl? Drew earlier with the candy canes as a base for this character. Start with a bowl. Swear for her. And her dress. Legs. Maybe just the same kind of shoes this earlier. Can imagine that. Maybe she has a tech leg. Since he was a pirate. I think she should have big pirate hat. So maybe she is the captain of the ship. Bb. Perfect. Number. The nodes are big, beautiful eyes will go under her out just a little bit like that. She does a big, big smile. Number, how that breeds. Along this side, you can draw the hair. So the face is actually a little bit on top of her. To give him a little bit more volume to the face, a little bit of variation. Select that. Her dress was Schechter last time, but this time I think she only has a little patch like that. So maybe her dress was ripped a little bit and she has fixed it. Of course there should be some kind of Scotland bones home her. You can just draw it very rough. If you make very soft forms, it doesn't look so scary. You can drive a different kind of designs for the skull. Let's see what is best for her hat. I'm leaving her eyes because I was drawing the pair ethnics are and I want them to look at each other. So in this arm, this hand, she's gone, hold some money bag, your straw, the ball first and then you can add some of the fingers. The bag. In this case, I don't draw the last finger because I'm going to push it out with a little, little bit to this side because the bag is going to be quite big. So it fits in her hand. It's almost down to the ground. Something like that. You can add maybe a monkey symbol of some kind. Maybe it's taller, maybe it's, could be a Bitcoin. Maybe. She is a modern pirates. So you never know. This isn't this house. She's going to I was sort of some kind. I think she actually, we'll be leaning more like this. Hold the sword. Will do this shape instead of the heel. Good to draw lines like this. So you know, approximately where things are supposed to be. This sort is going to be stuck into the ground, I think. So. The tip is not showing so heavily us do like this. So he disorder is actually stuck into the ground. Will be the cutting edge like this, something like that. Now we can continue with the pirate parents. I think the parents would be sitting on top of some kind of stick to stick that comes out from the ground. Amount of stick across like that will be angled a little bit like this. You'll see the M there will decide. Yes, this is good. We start with the body of the parents. You can make first kind of an oval shape for its body. Like this. Hello, top there you will add another oval shape, almost like an egg for the head. And then you draw them together like that. You can have when you have the big parts of this kinda beach. I think you should. I think it's good that he's happy. Happy, happy. But of course it should have an eye patch. Proper. Parents on the border, pirate ship should have an eye patch. Then my last comment out some flimsy call feathers on top of the head. Almost like your hairdo. Like feathers for where the head is sticking out like that. Then we have the little toes where it's sitting. First leg. To make it a little bit thicker. You have the tail of a parent can go from both sides like this. One of the fathers of sticking out a little bit more detail to the sittings day. There you go. There's the parent. And then the girl is going to look at it. And it's very good that you can always draw a line from where the eyes are going to be too, where she's looking. And it's usually don't see the INR, but she's looking at when I supposed to be. It's eye to eye. So it has eye contact or something like that. It looks quite good. So start thinking the character. More details by adding black lines. Going to do the braids first. Then continue with the face. The mouth, little target cells. This girl, even though she has the same features as to go over the candy canes look quite different now in their new role. And this is very exciting to do as an exercise that you say to take the same character. But you add the details, clothes. Imagine different kinds of occupations and y or months. Whatever it can be. Hello, We'll add quite a strong line here. So you really feel the weight of the hat. Continue with Scotland polls. I will not put too much pressure on this because I don't want all the focus to go up here. The focus is supposed to be around the rice instead. But I will blacken it. Like kinda have to live it. Don't worry if you've crossed the lines or anything. This is just a sketch about practice. So just feel free to let your mind go. Do the dress. Her legs, and their particular we're going to add some weight to her like that. I'm also do shading. You feel that the legs are underneath the sketch. Detail to the patch dress. One arm holding the sword. A lot, one other fingers show a little bit on the other side. There you can add just a little bit more black also that you feel the weight of her hand clean up the Saudi little bit where the sort of sticking into the ground. I'm also you can add a little bit of shade. Beneath the hat. On the side. She's holding the money back. It's probably asked her savings to Sheryl Sandberg. She's not a real pirate. Pirates because she's actually a very kind person. Let's just nice to dress up from time to time. Through the pirate, starting with the stick. Shoot go Altair also going to add a little bit of shadow on this side. Then I will add a little bit more weight to the blackness on this side, so it actually pops up Towards you quickly. Do the hand on the belly. Feathers. Pump, forget to both the smile. Parent is probably happy because her best friend is coming home from school. And they can play, dress up as pirates and play feathers. Wings. Tail feathers can add little bit of shade there too. Can actually show you the whole thing. Just very likely. You'll see that shade this part underneath this quite nicely. I will also say the belly a little bit, a little bit more flat. So you can feel the weight of the bell here. Yeah. Looks very nice. I usually do just do a little bit scribbly. Lines. Who tried to come back to two characters are in the same area. And there's no need to have extra weights beneath here. Actually, the most important is the roundup. Correcting parts to the ground. Yeah, something like that. It looks really good. What do you think? I think she's a great pirate girl with her best friend, the parrot, has continued to practice with this and you can swap the girl for a guy or maybe have a cat or a dog or whatever you feel is fitting to your character. Good luck and see you in the next lesson. 11. Business Dog: So next up is a business dog. I think it's going to be quite fat or stout, dark. We'll start with drawing almost like a cylinder. Like this. You can imagine that you have a head up here who's going to have a bit of a ridge towards the nose like that. Then the body and the head a little bit around this area. So he's going to have quite a big head, quite fat, fat body. Then we can draw his mouth like this. Maybe smiling just a little bit. Something like that. Quite big nose. I think he will have sort of glasses, sunglasses. Cool dog. Going up like that. Little bit of shader. We're going to add droopy ears growing out from there. Then the margin that if this error is here, the other one was collected just behind the head. Draw it up here. Something like that. With dogs, they don't also have whiskers, but they're not so big. Yes, we'd cats. So instead of drawing lines like that, you can do instead is to add little spots like this. Also, a little bit on the other side. Just a few of them. Just to make a little bit of a marking here. And asked for a body. I think this dog is going to have some kind of suit on with a tie. So we can start by drawing the tie here. Little bit. It'll tie. He will have a short dollars. So let's draw the flaps. I'm done. It will tie up in a, you can draw just one bottle. Bottom. Shoe wear the suit is pulled together. Define this shapes a little bit better. Also, you can show that the cat, that the dog is a bit fatter. You can actually add just a little bit of weight protruding out from the side like this. So you actually spills over a little bit little bit of fat. Define the ears. Also better. Yeah, something like that. Frames of the glasses is probably not the coolest or late as models when it comes to the sunglasses, but it takes days. This is style. Maybe is a little bit old fashioned. If you want to add the rest of the room, you can also do it, but I prefer to actually have it like this. It doesn't have to be realistic. It's more about the character. Gets the best look. According to you. The wildfire map. Flaps here too, with the mouth or can make them round and a little bit wrong shape to the bottom part of his mouth. Something like that. And then we're going to add legs. Imagine that there is a center of the head here, where the weight is. From, that there is a spike going down. Then you have hips inside the dog like this. From there. The legs will come down just like this. So small shoes. When it comes to perspective, if you will view this dog from the side. Of course, this leg will be a little bit bigger, a little bit farther down that other leg. Then I will show you a little example. You can change your character. Imagine that. Imagine that you have your legs drawn on the paper. Just like this. What will happen if you move those leg farther back or forward? It changes the weight of the character. Of course, well, I have my legs like this. There will be a huge weight on this side. So the spine and the back will be a very strong part. And he's got William sort of hangover. But if I play some more here he is more centered. You feel the weight going more straight down and there is weight both the front and the back of him. And I encourage you to do this kind of exercise to switch the leg position forth and back to see that the character is actually changing and his weight is changing. To compare this to this, there is a difference. There's no right or wrong. It's just different ways of giving characteristics to your character. Actually make shoes little bit darker like this. Then he will have arms. Hold his arm towards his body. Yes. The bowl with a little foam. Then you can add some small fingers like this. I would clean this up later with a black lines. So he's just standing quite casual. Then we will add black lines. Start with the ears. This time. We'll continue with the nose to nose, anatomically correct. Dogs have actually most drills and there are quite complicated shape, but I will just make it very simple. Since we are doing a cartoon character, making it quite dark. Leaving some white here to show some reflection and also a little bit dumb. Wetness. His mouth. The little fat. Link, continue with the glasses. You can have them transparent. And if you want to, maybe his eyes showing. I can do that. You'd like to. But I will add some shades instead of law, we'll also show you a little bit what you can do via the reflection. Stroke. Quite dark parts like this. Then it will be not as dark next to the light part. There we have a reflection. Same on the other side. Little bit lighter next to the live part, will make this line a little bit stronger. So the glass is going a little bit behind the nose shape. Add some dark to the whisker spots. Don't make this too dark because they're supposed to be more like a texture or a pattern that shouldn't be in much too much focus on this. So in this character, focus is going to be the nose and the glasses. Then we are continuing with the body. Will make the tie quite dark too. But not as dark as the nose to nose is still going to be the darker spots. Doctors placing the drawing, the bottom, the arm to his thumb to lead a little bit of feeling for his fingers like that. So he's holding his fingers like this. Then the legs, his shoes. I think he has almost light like whites use with dorks. Souls like that. And then of course, add the weight to the ground underneath him. And then do a little bit of shading. Can show it even more on here. So the legs are going underneath the suit. If you want to have more weight. Focused on the head, Eurostar, this little strings to these black lines. Laurie see that this popping out a little bit stronger. Lines. Remember glasses. Don't worry about the lines. Do what feels natural for you. And I will do a little bit of shading underneath the glasses here a little bit. Maybe that was a bit too much. Can always go back and erase things. If it doesn't fit your character. Throw this slide in a little bit stronger instead. I'll also go back to making sure the frame is showing properly. Yeah, something like that. If we want to, we can add maybe has some small eyebrows. Come here too. See how that feels. Deciding what you feel is right for the character. Yeah, it looks quite good. Actually. Combine them in a little bit stronger. There we go. Your business doggy. Remember? Tried to experiment with a wait and see what happens. With a weight on the way the character changes, depending on what you're very moved the legs. The last thing, some shade underneath the character. Some popular like, there you go. I hope you have enjoyed this course and feel inspired to continue expanding your creative world. Keep drawing and experimenting with the characters. And please, please show your work. They are going to be amazing.