How to draw in the SIMPSONS style

1. Introduction: Welcome to this course about drain like The Simpsons. This course will teach you how you can drove with this famous graphic style with, you know, characters and very and Christine funny cartoons. And I'm going to use a software to show you a different example. And the different lessons this software is keeps you paint. Of course, you can use the tips and going to give you in this course with normal paper and pens, and soon and you can also use other software you can. It's for the shop you can use critical. Any kindof softer, amusing Cliff Shipping because this is my family. So in first place, what we're going to see in this course, we're going to see the different techniques about how to draw the Simpson style with the eyes with the mouth, nose and head the hairs. And so the first step will be to learn how to draw known characters Bart Omer and all the family members. Then we're going to to learn how to to dro, uh, Carole Simpson characters. But by using photos were going to change a realistic picture into Simpson. Style is going to be very funny because you are going to learn how you can, for instance, at change the picture of friend into a Simpson stuff 2. The first step eyes and nose: the first step will be to learn what can sketch you can do to start drain like The Simpsons . The first and more important step is the I. The I in Simpson's used to be like this. This is the first step. You have to drop around I if it's not like bedroom here. If you do something like this, it's not going to be looking like Simpsons. So you have to do something like this. And then the second I is going to be like this, you can do a sketch, please, to steps the first run and the 2nd 1 this partisan to be raised. And this part is going to be raised to, because usually we have to nose here that it will be the next step. First you can drew. I think it could be an exercise for you to draw this and then you re raise here against him , Bart or least Liza on all the characters have such smart of The Simpsons character, such eyes, so you can joke this 13 again and then we're going to drew nervous. That nose is something like this. The forms of these carriages are never very complex No, there's nothing to be something very well detained like this. It's always something like this. Very simple. Then you drop nose on, you erase the unnecessary rights. So you have this, then this and the news, then the eyes. You usually have a that point. And no matter if it's Liza or barter or any other characters you have here, the first step you can exit sends yourself to this is and it is in sight. Then you can You can even use your sifter to design their perfect lines. It wasn't going to do here. Cygan room here. - I see you already have something that we used to know. Has the name parts more important thought of the face off Simpson character. Then once you you're doing this, the rest of the head is going to be according to which character we tried to drug. For instance, if this is Bart, his hand is going to be like this here. And you have something like this. It's going more here. It's anything to that way. It's stuff here and girls like this and then you have something feeling this and but both the eyes you have this can t res. Then you have that's distance. You have to consider that distance. And you're on something here like this. This and that here. Not that, please. They're here. The police, This you drew. It's a bit this. So this is a bit more difficult to remember. That is their simple forms. But you have to remember exactly how you you drove in. And then you draw very direct line to the top and you know at least the distance for the rest of the head and something like this. Remember that all the lines are very straight lines for the eyes. You usually have this. The mouth are very simple. Runs this and you never have a re conflicts. Lines like this are like this even for the hairs. If we drove, for instance, it would be the same technique. We don't touch the eye on the nose that's going to do you think this? I think this here and deliver the mouth here. You Any hands make us around. Still, for me is very simple forms. And you have the air's. It's not exactly like this. It's big, less strong, but the principle of the scene see you have very for that like this. They would talk about the rest of the body later, but you see that we have the same for the ice and the knows that they're always the same, and we add the rest of the body and the head, the body after. So in this video as an additional document, you can find this and you can don't print it and use its to exercise yourself to drop the rest of any body, any characters of The Simpsons around this first step. 3. About simpsons proportions: Now we're going to draw the rest of the burning. But only with this kitsch, I mean that we're not going to draw a very complex carrot just going to drove the sketch itself. So we still based on character of this, and we want to draw a Bart. So two robots working to review the first step we have seen in the previous video. I mean, yeah, this And as a sketch, chicken first drove roughly the constrictions nine your hands. Books like this here is going to be here, and we have this. Every character of the systems can be drawn with very simple lines and construction forms like this. Then you can start to have some detains like this one here, and you know, something like this. And as we can see, we have the mouth. It was going more than the distance and that distance Jews, we have something very close to this. Okay, then I can stop drawing the rest of the body. So the shoulder here, you can just drop something very rare for this. And torso is in two parts, the 1st 1 in the signal. And they are very simple. Something in this friends and received minutes later. So we have the shoulder that body in can erase the unnecessary construction lines. Here it seems a bit fat, so we're going to change something we have. Ah, the necklace is too. It's two fans here, so change something. Raise here and then we have to giving its strong here. Still respect these two parts, but we have birds. Bean this fat and it's too long. Here's this is also stepping here and then this one here. Be sure that you respect the real proportions because otherwise he will not be looking like a child with more teenager. It's not exactly which we're looking for. I just trained to respect the really real character of births in China. A teacher, Siegen shoulder and we're something already down That is not too bad. Now we're going to see how you can find the real proportions off this character and going to show you the character design of the creators off Simpson's, and we're going to review the the real, proportionate high you can, how you can really observe progression they use and how you can use these proportions to draw yourself and not making the mistake of having guards being true long or to fence, you hear? Is Barton. What are these famous proportion? First we have here the head. Then you have the level eyes here, the liver of now and Nick. So you can when you draw such character, respect this kind off proportion. This is what we're going to call The Simpsons proportions because we're not talking about realistic proposition, of course as well, captain ish style. But we have to really understand that we're in something that needs to some proportion to be respected. If you want drawing looking like Simpson so we can draw their Rebrov nine. It's going from the top to the bottom of the character and determine when the eyes are stuffing now neck and the other remaining parts. What I'm doing here is in existence. You can do yourself for every Simpson camped. Then you will have to dro yourself. They re seating this start distort this one and this force. Why are you on what we should stick to? This is because if you, for instance, have the first about being to tone, if you have the first partnering up to here, it will mean that the heads were up to here. It's not going to make it. So here's what you can do in the first step, taking one of the guarantee dream, the kind off lines I needed very roughly. But it works anyway, and on the side of your character dream, it's trained to respect the proportions. 4. Exercice to help drawing Simpsons proportions: here is we're trying to find in the additional documents of this video. This is agreed with butts on your left and an empty space on your right. This is exactly what you can do as an exercise to get used in during such characters. Such Simpson character. You can print these documents or you can use it exactly has and doing with my year, Ben, my refuge templates, and you can existenz yourself in drawing the carrots. These lines are going to help you to respect the proportions. You can see that they refer to the line and enjoying my sketch according to two dams to them, finding something pretty rough. But I can see that already have some mistakes here. They're like, incorrect. He can see also two dimensions of the head and dimension here. Conceits are really to lurch, so correct this. You can see that according to this line, the bodies here and already too loud here really to so good to be raised this and start delivery in because it's very that hunting gene. That's when you see that there is a problem off proportion here. You can see that usually you have problems in the other parts, too. Don't be focused too much on this parts. If you can see that you have difficulties to Jordan, it's probably that you have done something wrong here or here or here. So review carefully every steps and see where the mystic is located. Mr. Here were That's the mouse was already placed. Not exactly on this line, so I have to draw it again. And the nose, for instance, is one of the biggest mistake it's for Be the first thing I have draw here in this catch, and it was not placed correctly. It's too low. It should be here. Look at this Should here not here and that only small difference with effects misting on all the body of my career. So a very simple thing like this can can be a very important mystic, because if you try to drove do feet here and the nose of the ISA, any other elements is too low. Your character will be not very well proportions compared to this one, and you will have some difficulty to to see where is the problem here or here, usually when another such proportion problems. The problem is at the first in the first elements. You have job. The first element have joined. This video was nose and it was not drunk at the great place, so it was a mistake for the rest of anybody. So be very careful in drawing elements in the right place. If you are very in difficulty, don't go crazy in trying to correct the correction and to correct Karesh in the correction of the corrections. At one point it's better to erase everything into startled delivery. So this time and going not to be that first being, to be precise and try to be to take the time necessary to do something correct, it's that easy even may sometimes have difficulties too. To drink this because it's required to respect every lines, every perversions you can see there is a difference here. Incredible, this difference. So when I see the difference in here, I have to have the same here but from the same time here and the same volume here. - And you can see that, as we have learned in the first video way, are building the character who is very simple. Geometric lines and forms don't go into the detail too much right now, you can see that transforming the character is very simple rains and again, there is something wrong here. I'm not supposed to have legs that long. The legs are stuck here but have the mistakes because you can see the short should be stuff here, not here. And if try to droid correctly, then I can see. Probably the shirts is stepping here. That's here and soon. Insulin. This existence could be very painful because you can, that's and chits. You can achieve it with this greed. This really wants your doing. One very simple mistake. Then there is a reproduction of the mystic on the rest of the body. So this'll was an example about how you can be very precise and drinks. It seems character, so downloads greed and a friends. Many of them are used geographic tablets and use after two existence yourself. Don't be a dumb don't go man as using it because it's very could be very painful, especially if you don't have to have it to drop on. This is more in advance exercise, but it's a T end when you use it over and over and over again and use it any time. It will help you to increase your ability to draw very much 5. Exercices to draw sketches of Simpsons: there is another things that you have to really understand to align some difficulties in drain Simpson characters, There is a very simple things to understand. This is the main construction lines off such captor. There are very simple. If you have, for instance, Bart, you can simplifying the lines, the construction lines and really understand that such character is formed with very simple geometrical forms. If I simply free the contruction off words, it will be groans and Rick tingles. - See , this is very simple. When you are done with creating such very simple character, you can draw it in. This is to get use of the main forms of this character and see that it's nuts. Tough to dro seem son characters, especially when we start with something very simple like this. Such sketch can be draw again and again. This is a nexus says you can also do. It's to drill in during this many, many times, 10 times, and you will get used to do this and be more confidence in drawing your your character. But first in the form off sketches not under the form off something very complete re the colors and the back lines. Thes limits will be seen later in the course, but first to really get used to this started, we start with very, very simple basics and restored with geological firms. Now we have done this with Bosch. Begin to see another car. We can do the same with Omer Headed, concedes something like this something this traded. Simplify every part of the body in very simple things, very simple forms and then you're reading him. It will probably take times to you to really drew perfect seem some characters. But in the end, if you follow every step of this course by the very simple step, like what we're doing here to the more complex when will speak about the colors and the black lines at the end, you are going to be more more professional during very precise characters. You can see this is this one is probably less unless it's not very well done compared to this one, because this one was done according to the picture. That's why drained this one over and over again during drink lingering again. Again. This really increase your ability to draw very rough sketches and from the sketches will be able to to constrict your Simpson character. It could be Homer Barson any other camps. The purpose of these exist, senses, is to to make sure that you get shoes on the very simple graphics time. Of course, The Simpsons is a very simple graphic state, but it's also very complex because it's simple and from to draw, very simple lines like the eyes of the Simpson could have its difficulties because we can draw the eyes of the Simpson. I think this and see that there is probably a mystic that make the eyes not looking like perfectly to seem something and not very notable to see where is the problem. This is why this is very important to respect the steps of this course regarding during very simple things and going to the more complex steps after. 6. Starting with the eyes: Now we're going to do a new sketch off another Simpson character. It's Mr Flanders. You see that this kitsch will be the same for the eyes news, and they're here seem to be here. This, of course we have it. The rest of the head that this time we are halves. These hairs are one form like this in one form here, it's a bit more difficult to two droid because the head is not only something like this might come home. It's something we add it. You have the head here. If you draw the sketch of the face and you have to and the hair this so race constriction nines. And then we would have. They're simple. Ryan's here, of course, with the same construction for the neck. Mr. Some Cleaning this way have. I didn't know here. You can see that we have to work on their with very specific lines. But it's always the same than the other characters. It's always very direct lines. There is no small details. There is no I grow, too way we could have something like this, and we can t raise in the additional details here, and the guy He's supposed to wear glasses, but there is still some. There's still the same construction than normal eyes that just add this to explain that thes are in fact Mrs. Then, if you have to two drove, for instance, he was one of his Children will see the reveal difference with the I to drew. That's kids for the head, the nose. And this time the eyes would be different. One here and one. I hear they were the situation here. They're here still level of enough. Then here he would find your smile, okay. And we still have the same construction for the for the torso and it fires. I think this this so we have the separation between these two eyes on. Some characters could have this difference not always attach the eyes is not necessary always that it's too. The other one. You could have such constructions, so you can see by looking at the summer picture of Simpson's and some models how you can draw such character and the others were very and to observe all the difference with the position of the eyes and also with the expression of the faces we will see different expression a bit later, but this is the first exercise to juice. Kitsch is off various character you can see in in picture in the train. Teoh repute use them only with skits, sickness stuff. It did round statuary, stuff, symphony disappointing to do to the form original form of the character. For a few flounders, for instance, you can start with Skitch nineties and had departs one after the others that usually we always start with the eyes. This is very stable to start with the Isaacs, especially for this jury instead. 7. About faces expressions the mouth: Now we're going to speak about the faces, expressions, face expressions, and you will see that season animated movie. There will be some expression to express on the with the eyes, the mouth and different attitude. If a take one of the fame was character, which is, um, that gave the Siri, we can see that he has usually that expressions are expression off, fear or anger. You probably recognize him, so we had here in expression. His expression is done with the position of the eyes of the eyebrow, even if you don't have a drawing of the eyebrow used to have its kind off for here. And you have met the mountains something very specific to draw. We have something that is taking the form off that the mouth is wide open and you have the teeth. You can see the give inside, and we have all the four inside this it tongue something like this. So we have to really observe. This is done because it's not easy, as easy as it could be, and it takes some observation to re do something like this and do note, mistake like drain such an element of the bay Of course, we are using the more angry character of the Syrian. This is Mr Burns, and this is perfect. Too fine. Example. Difficult phase expression during two trying to show you a fine finalize example. - And , of course, it can continue to drew his face. Okay, here, But you can see that such parts is already Marine could be very difficult to draw because you have to respect several points. Kevin. Just machine, because to and such expression he's taking account the town tongue, teeth and the movement of the it's such movement could be done with. You can train yourself to to drew mouth expression, especially to express very specific emotions like smiling. Very single drill. Surprise. Not happy finger, Scared conceded. Here's and soon you can draw several expression, and the first i d here is to show you that the expression especially animated, movie like seem sons. You would have to work on the mouth. To really express this, you will see that very angry character were something like this. Even if you drill the usual constriction nine and you add some angry expression and it soon happy expression. You will always come back to such a drink. So what you can do, it's to learn how to. You can use such expressions, and by doing this you can just taking your paper. Take it, Ben and drove very simple faces, the sinful, and you still too see what kind off mouth position represent what came off expression. This is a research you can do by yourself or by looking at other situation or seems administration off, even photos and sound and get used to creates emotions like it was smileys and during plenty off expression. In this. This is their interesting because we're nurturing to reach the quality of the off normal drawing, which it's just searching for efficient, efficient expression. Then, once you're done with finding the expression and signal succeeding to create them on difference, you can then starts to drove on more detail Skitch, and to create your character with that 8. Faces expressions, the eyes: we can now review the faces, expressions, But with the eyes, I'm going to drool to form like this and raising this thing. This Okay, so we have several ice. That's enough for this. Now how you can use this? You can use this night giving a different position off the black point inside of the eyes and to change some details in the inside. The eyes are outside. For instance. I can't just this I can prove this. It would change the position and give and direction of the site of the current. But then I can draw this friend this that would be different. Federal. This this here could be sad here. It could be a waiting for something off boring. Then you can have additional details like using the this and this worry. He's worried conceit there is it getting off change mints in the position of the form of the eyebrow? Oh, no. Have I Bruins at least kind of things like this above the ice. So we can use this. He's a shame. Are is a bit then you can, of course, change and do something like this angry and it is scared you can put the eyes in the center that if it scared, you would have to play. Um did now, because, as there is no I broke To create this expression, you would have to play so referred to the previous video to some exercises to draw them So you can just playing with different attitudes and expression and during many sketches, just by playing with the eyes, and it will help you to to control into an expression to your characters. 9. Bodies, men and women: We're going to sketch the character with this time to draw old body. We have seen enough videos and tips about the head. Now let's talk about the base. If we take the bar, our home, our bodies it would be something que take very rough geometrical forms. Something like this. It would be in two parts furniture. So then we have the head here. The arms will be something like this. So you have upper points of the Our injury did harm here. And 40 hand. They're simple like three bananas, one after the other. Like this. Of course, when he movies form, you would have something like this. So you get here And you have always some around forms here. The same for the for the hands. You would never have something like this then from thirst. So you would have something like this. And then you can complete excision. The legs we start all over again. You have something in this you see in the port. Which would be the pence here? Yeah, first foot and see Inference. We have the Omer stand. Then we add the arm we have just seen here This from this three minutes and another arm. Can you arrange this bunts hit here We're here. Just steps. The very simple steps to drop the character. Now, if you take part, he has it Very small bay. It will be smaller. It would be the same construction responding legs. But we have the same construction here. Really? Something this so you can see that is very simple. Step to reproduce. You confined this document in the attached with this video and now we're going to see how to drew women. For the woman, it would be the same symbol techniques, but there will be probably some more human characteristics. You would have something like this and some feeling this the farm will be more related to humans because they try also to to be some fin attitude. So with the arms that it's more really stick and also the bounds of global firms. So you can, uh, without going into much detail, you can respect the female fours of the legs, something that it's not too much to image both in a two inch hit, very soft lines, but enough fulling sub slain to to see that it's about women. So if I drove Woman Simpson's Dina. He could give something in this. - The reason Controller address that we respect firms even from the and can McCain. If dream this and for the hand this 34 fingers for your straight lines not to measuring into very smart detail of the names and salon, but be more realistic than for you. I'm going to leave from the world to work the dream with more tense 100 with very strongly, which is just to show you we can work three small and simple tools because you have to be. In this time, there is not too much detail to be very efficient. The lines you're using not being like many days are hatching everywhere. We have to be the re confidence in your in the way you drove the lines and injuring the right lanes in the train, too, to handle. The mistakes are raising. This is what your sketch must be good for. The first time before to draw into your black line should be done for the first time in good for the first thing. But if you really want to do this, you have to work per se easily on your sketch before, so you can see that is an example off women body in the sense in style. So to summarize this, you have to respect the principle the main line of the women, buddy. And make sure that you do something a little bit realistic and don't go into too much care . We get you, Stein, its nuts. They're not going too far into character to just respect the normal lines without too much details, and it should be fine, okay? 10. Introduction to the Color chapter: we're going to speak about the colors. This themselves is on animating movie with very specific colors. First, the characters are you. This yellow is a very specific. It's not any kind of fear. So we're going to find in the additional documented video two colors. The first colors will be this, you know. Come on, you know that we can find in every seems in character. Then there would be a single color. It will be that color that is used to create the shadow of the same. Some current. We would see that this is very relevant to use always the same colors. If you use another euro than this one, it will not be exactly the same. So it's very important. Then in this chapter, we're going to drove characters from The Simpsons with thinking, which means the use of the black lines and the colors. And you will see how, in these examples on using the free tools sketch, then inking, then colors 11. Example Bart Simpsons step by steps: Okay, series off since drying. Done from the beginning to the end, I will do the sketch, the thinking and the color first I'm going to but the main objects for the eyes there's probably something wrong. These it's more something this this and we have things knows between Probably not exactly how met Grinning with dried bits. I try to do something. They're similar. They here. NAND mouth. I have the ninth green care, the first votes a year and the second part, as we have seen previously in another. We do hear that harm is too heavy. Sometimes very simple character are very difficult to draw because we are making the mistakes off, having lines to simple lines, being not currently done and give some mystics, then here know what's for it to be. I think this and the IRS going too far. Think you can better here, then we can alleys. Skateboard. Okay, so we have the first parts of the drawing that is this kitsch. Then we can more details This okay, and after drove very perfect cycle for the But first, let's complete this Skitch. Okay, well, we stay with this is the perfect, but a good example. Conduce. Then I'm creating your later software, and I'm going to trace the black line. So as we're not doing such lying with everything and hard pressure, we have to find a brush that is like this with the same exactly what I'm looking for with the same size everywhere. I think that's not bad. That's trained funding to zoom in and drove the lines. This time the line has to be the reappear. I feel defendant, and I'm going to draw. They're perfect. Cycle 15. Okay, second floor the eyes here in verification. Okay. And then I continue that wrist for the news. Okay? Raised here. - This is with black English. We can really drilled the outlines. That is why if you are not certain fuel sketch, you would have probably some difficulties, too. Truly the lines, the risk to make mistakes from finding the last farm for kids. Forget it. That skin born okay . Here is barbs. I hide the sketch and now we have the black lines which is called the Thinking. Now we can go to the last step. We should color cretin, you layer if you're using and software tips do pain are full shop can selling multiplied options off the layer to make sure that the color is Let's see. Okay to make sure that you have this transparency effects. So now I'm going to take the cooler gin. It's that I have set aside somewhere fine, and then you can find in your additional documents documents. So I'm picking up the color this yellow. She's since in a year we could say, and I can just select on my layer. Black layer is a different port for the skin I would like on my skin near off Michael earlier so I could color, and I feel in just criticism expansion of my selected area. And I feel is saying for the shirts, the main problem in a year in any field with this color and then misstep the blue of the shorts. All right, now we have the flat colors. It's not done yet because we have some nights effect. These rights defense will be because this Bronco this it's a run, its darkest yellow. It's the color that we're going to use to create a shadow on the left side of the character , so I consider the yellow color here, take a brush. He's more with the biggest size and can not just one. I think just to this the same from the are here and select and insecure Part came. That's 12 drenching here, in here, then for the face you can select. No, you know, bit lighter, Joe. Here, even the later, more later here for two news to that part of the news here. It's too much this and you're saying for the shirts, darkest red Here is to now the ridge it's in here and the same for the blue and very small. 10. This probably the skin, but would be green small detainee in here and they will be great to you. This addiction to be easier way have birds. So this video will train you step by step. How you can create your character from nothing to something that's complete. Of course, I can change some details here. I can creates some modification Aken handsome in education. And here we are 12. Transform a picture into a Simpsons style: we're not the transform a picture into Simpson stuff. So I have a picture of a woman here and I'm going to sketch the character that's in the Simpsons time. So we have first to drove the ice. You have to try to create killed face. And as this is the one you have to respect some normal proportions. Read reads the arms that are still in style off Simpson. Okay, we'll make this simpler. Can we work from this? Now will draw back nine proving too strong again. I would take the birth of this less strong. Let's try this. I don't get the bitch to draw the eyes like in the previous example given the other video this carefully. Two news here is this. - Let's see, it's cloth. Here is our character. No, we add some color. We can say that she has red hair would read the there's you can pick it discoverer and sick . This we have a problem here. We have to sit here in here, Okay. - And then I feel with the yellow. So I give my fight with the yellow Samson my skin and they can fly now. You should do finda night that would clear this one. There's a problem here. Forget to to drool on something here. It's okay. Thing to and I think this I think this and it's in Grey. Okay, These things is great to this is another. Great. Okay, now I can select. Great is. And Advil suit some shutters. Here are so one shooter here. There. Okay, It could be better way. Take more time to drove it and give you an example on how I can transform from picture to on Simpson style if you follow the different step we have learned during this course.