Lost in the Jungle: Draw Your Own Wild Adventure

1. Introduction: Welcome to Lost in the Jungle. Our main character has got himself in a bit of a muddle, and the other jungle animals come in to help him out. All you need with you is pencil and paper and a black fine liner to outline. Alright, let's get started. 2. Setting and Main Characters: Here's our concept for Lost in the jungle. We've got our little central character that's, that's my mouse, Henry. He is with his little friend, A, some sort of little caterpillar, what have you. We've got a parrot looking down at him, some nice, you know, foliage and tropical flowers, and this lovely little snake coming in and handing him the map and a little leopard coming out of the out of the bushes here. All right, so let's get started. We'll begin with this design and then add some more to the rest of our drawing. Okay. So we're going to need a fair amount of space above for the canopy and the characters that are coming down from the top. So I'm going to set my ground line about a quarter or a third through my page. So that's about, about a third. I'll be something like that. So my main character is he's going to be set in here, okay? Then I want to allow, like I said, a good amount of space, it's going to be something like up here, about a quarter or so, that's going to be my canopy so we can show some foliage, some of our tropical flowers, et cetera. That'll be something like up there. Like I said it's about a quarter, a quarter to a third of the page. Then down below, we have two as well, one or two, we can decide, one or two characters in the foreground, that are peeking out from what will be some denser foliage. We want this feeling that we're looking into the space from quite a dense kind of setting. Somewhere around there, I'll just slightly sketching where that kind of foliage will be and then we'll have one or two characters, I'm thinking two, kind of kind of like their faces looking in our leopard and maybe like a gorilla or something. So there and there. I just sort of lightly sketching where I think those characters are going to go. Then I'm thinking to make it look even denser, maybe what we do is have a couple of tree trunks coming down through here because we want somewhere to put, we've got our parrot, and we can get in maybe like a lizard or a sloth, something up in the trees. A couple of trees will be here I'm thinking and around here. Something like there. Maybe a branch coming off, we'll put our parrot on a branch off of this tree, parrot could go around there. And then, this will be, you know, some foliage and tropical flowers, et cetera. And then maybe, you know, we want we've got our snake coming down, so he comes down off of a branch here. And this snake needs to know, his face needs to basically end right near our central characters. There's little mouse? O you're change to anything else you want, you know. You want to your cat or your dog. And this is he's little friend caterpillar character. All right. So that's what I'm doing is just roughing in my basic composition. Okay? Because I have characters in the foreground that are larger. You know, I want to make sure that I'm leaving enough space for them. And I also want to make sure that I'm going to have, you know, the central characters and the central action, which is the snake coming down in a good position. So I think that will basically work. And then you know, we worry about what else we can fill in here afterwards. It could be some smaller characters, I be a butterfly or a mosquito or what have you. So let's begin with the main characters and, I think, probably this snake coming down, right? Okay? So, you know, his face will be around. Roundabouts there. Let's do the main character. So he's going in there. And he's made from. I've got a little D shape. Okay. That's the character's head. We will be looking up slightly, a little bit angled up, looking over here. His eyes will be in there. The body is just a elongated oval or elongated D shape. Yeah, I make it a little bit smaller. He's a mas. It's fairly small. I just checked you know I think I've got the right kind of angle looking up there. He He's we're going to show his ears, but he's got to have his little, you know, explorer's hat on, so. Another little D shape there. Okay. Sit that on top of him. We want his ears ping through. There they go. Curves there. And he'll be, you know, just sort of stepping along, okay? Stepping along. He's going to need, you know, he's going to need his backpack on, he'll have a backpack. And maybe he's got, you know, his hands on the straps here. Two little circles for his hands. It's just a curve as his elbow comes around, like that. We don't really see the other one. We can see a little curve of his elbow there. Then his eyes really simple Oly black eyes. Curve for his nose. Here's just decide how how long face needs to be. How long his nose need to be Little smile. He's thrilled. He's about to get a map. It's just backpack back there. Oahten it to leave space for his tail. Also be little little feet marching along. Well, that's a pretty good sketch for him. And his friend here I'm he's a little caterpillar. He'll be reaching for the map a val for his head. I'll exaggerate him a bit, not too too small. Maybe we'll add it just need a little cap on, I'm thinking. Need a hat on too. I'm going to put a hat on him. Exaggerating the size of him and make a little bit bigger. You want to be able to get enough of a face on him and net happy expression. And he just, you know, curves around like this. He stands up on his little back legs. And he's reaching for reaching for the map. Okay? I'm going to sketch because these characters all go together and their interaction goes together. I'll sketch them all in first, and then I will ink them. Okay. Just in case, you know, if something's not aligned quite right, I still can change it, right? So that's why I'm not going to ink these guys yet. Let's get in the snake's head. So yes, he's going to come down somehow, you know, snacking around obviously down this branch. But the first thing that I draw in is the character's head, because I can always move the body around, right? And so I know that the eyes are going to need to be somewhere around here. You know, he's looking over. He's looking at at our mouse. And we also have to have space for the map that he's carrying. Okay? So, I get in the shape for his head, which is val with a little bit of a point at his nose. I'm going to get a bit of a dip in his head there. Let's see how he looks. G rounded up if you want. Be a little big. I'm going to make it a little bit smaller. I'm going to make. I don't want it to be too too big because he's in our mid ground, right? He's like right at the foreground. There and his tongue is going to come out and wrap around this map. It's just a cylinder. Maybe a little bit smaller. All right. So now, I make sure I get this character's eyes in so that, you know, he's looking in the right kind of alignment. Okay? We have a nice little sort of triangle interaction happening here in our composition. And his smell just curves around like that. And then I will take him take his body up, okay? And I can almost draw in, you know, I can do the branch afterwards, right? So I can decide how he's going to go, you know, like this. However he's going to curve around. And he's going to, you know, he's either in front of the foliage. I think he comes out of whatever foliage we've got here. I'm going to sketch him these leaves. Something like that. Okay. Because when we ink this guy, he's going to need to disappear into somewhere. Let's get his body in his body. Then I can draw the branch through him. There are different ways of doing it, but. H like that, disappearing into there. The branch, I can imagine, it would go around like this, maybe it curves off like that, branch or could be, could be a vine. You could do it like this. You could do a curve. Maybe we'll do that. Be curve of a vine, he could be on. We'll do that Opportunis on a vine. All right. And I just remember which parts of him are going to be in front of the vine. Okay. And then maybe, you know, he goes his body goes in behind the vine there. And then, is in front of again. Just to remind me for when I'm inking it. Okay? And I think that's good for those characters. So I'm going to ink in this part and then I'll stop here. Won't do any more of the tree. Okay. Let's start with. Let's get Henry. His little expression and his hat. Down around his body. I'm just giving at, you know, a little curve to his hand as I come around there, give him a little little extra feature. Same with his feet. Backs have gotten his ears. I can't forget those. Brilliant. Okay, onto his little friend here. No, I don't know I leave I might leave the hat off. You just ought if you wanted to put it on or I M come Ltenda or something. Let's see. There. Oh, Better get his eyes. Smile. Reaching for our map. Yeah here. Give him a little antenna. Let's see what he looks like. Gives a bit of a keener expression at, you know, angling up at the map. Brilliant. He's got a little spots on the maybe I'll leave him for the moment we'll see. Now our snake. Let's get his eyes in. He's looking down. He's going to be looking down at this. And around his face. I'm going to give him nostrils, I think. So tongue, and let's get let's get the map in here. O. And his other part of his tongue comes around it like this. Okay. And then just up up his body and not forgetting this vine that he's on, okay? I just sort of You know, when I'm trying to make it so that the body aligns from one side of the vine to the next, you know, even though I've drawn this line, I'll lead my pen along this line, make sure it's kind of lining up and then, you know, continue this line around. Just hope my my pens moving in the same direction. You know, I'm more likely to get it lined up properly that way. Okay, so now we've got this little space here. Let's I'm going to draw in a few of these leaves, the ones that intersect with my snake. Okay, and then I'll leave the rest, just those parts that I know I'm going to have to Heaven. I'm just putting a tiny bit of texture on those leaves to bring them out contrast them versus him. Maybe he does these balls. I'm can decide that afterwards here a few few more leaves. That's probably good. I'll do this one as well. Brilliant. I'm leaving this part of the vine. It can be finished when we do the rest of this foliage. Okay. So, there we go. Those guys are in our first characters. 3. Parrot, Sloth and Lizard: These trees. So I think we could do, like, like, maybe a sloth here. Here's climbing up. Oh, we're going to do our par here. So here's our parrot. Yeah, let's get that character. And the parrot, and then, like, I think thinking a sloth, you know, could could be a really simple little one climbing up this tree. Okay. L et's do the parrot. So the parrot is, first of all, I decide how far I want this parrot from my character. I' actually bring the parrot down a little bit. Just so a little bit closer in here. I feel like I want the characters, fairly close. And I want to leave my viewer's eye down here. So the parrot, because I got this nice or whatever tropical bird this is. I can make it get a longer beak, you know, some tropical bird with a big long beak. I can lead my viewer's eye down in a little similar angle, you know, the way that I got the snake coming in. So that will be, you know, the beak of the parrot. Okay? And the parrot is just made out of a tropical bird made out of a oval. There's my branch. He or she will sit on. Maybe we could just let me get a little lizard over here. So simple little lizard climbing up there, perhaps. Now the parrot, so I'll do a simple. I'm going to give it a smile here, you know. And maybe a little. There's some color around its head, and I can have a fancy fancy feathers up there and long, nice, long tail feathers. Okay. Holy long tail feathers. I'll just do a simple curve for its wing. That's I want to make sure that I'm getting the fairly good sizes, these characters. It's just going to have simple little feet on this branch. Move by branch of a sma I can put I can put a tropical flower on the end here, I can put you can do that if you want. I'm just going to put some leaves. Brilliant. I think we can probably ink this guy, but thinking on the lizard, you know, we're going to have I'm going to place this lizard because perhaps my tree needs to be smidgen and narrower. I can do my lizard is place his head, you know, maybe. He's got a c curvy kind of tail. And just simple little simple little feet around the trunk of this tree. I just I place the bit below the pairs. Again kind of brings my viewers eye. For example, I don't want to align them exactly perfectly. It's nice to have some asymmetry. Let's in these characters in. Who says tail to be curved, I don't know. Let's do the bird here. I first. He's got to be looking down, so point his eye down a bit. Could be looking somewhere here could be looking somewhere else up to you. Ing. Fancy feathers there. Simple wing. Let's get him on his branch. And, of course, he is lovely. Tail feathers. I don't want to low down because we've got our leopard coming in here. Perfect. I can leave him like. There he is. Now, let's do the little lizard guy here. Oh. A little of you down his back and give him nice kind of curvy curvy style tail. There we go. Brilliant. Now, I think we can we can either go up this tree and do this, but let's come over and do our other tree, and we'll leave this until we decide how we need in terms of, you know, tropical flowers, et cetera. Let's do this loth. So place my character's head. You could do h on the other side if If you want him looking, you know, maybe might make more sense for him to be looking into our scene, so I could put the character here, head on this side of the tree. Plus a little bit further from my snake. I don't want him to be too too close. I wrap his little paws around the trunk. I don't want him too low down because I got this other, you know, gorilla character coming in here. I can move him along. There is simply simply wrap them around. Can curve, and curve his legs a little bit, so get the feeling of the round trunk. And here's my slog head. Angle a bit more like this. Let's raise off these lines. I'm need this line changes. I'm going to need this line up this character's beak. I'm going to leave it like that. Alright, Sloth. Here in my Sloths eyes. Fairly central in the face, cause I've got the little, markings that go around him and his little nose, te smile on O can even leave with none. I was just ed on that. It's a little marking on the top of his head, kind of different colors, don't they?'s I'll try to face. I just do a little straight line. I leave him play. We'll put a smile over here. I think it looks better. Nice, simple character. Maybe I could put a, a branch coming out of here or you know, wild flowers or something. I'll leave it. I'll leave it for the typing. Let's ink this guy in. Eyes first. Looking down and over at this scene. Marking on the top. And then just around the characters. Body. I'm going to keep that all really simple. He'll give them a little claws or something if you want to but. I'll leave them p. I worry about the tree trunk later. When we design our foliage happening in here. 4. Leopard, Frog and Gorilla: Let's come into our foreground. We've got our leopard, somewhere around here. And we've got our gorilla, you know, somewhere around his nose and top of his heads. Or around here. Maybe we could do we need a think we need like something little like like a little tree frog, you know, a little froggy in here. Can be sat on one of the leaves, and he's just peeking up over kind of thing. Okay? So I think maybe I can get those three characters in. L et's do the leopard. Like I said, I'm just sketching in where these characters are going to go just so I can feel that it's going to feel kind of balanced in my drawing. In goes the shape of my leopard's head, or maybe as a panther or something. I don't know. Nice little oval eyes there. Going to make the note. Let's see how big those need to be. Like that. I'll give him I small, it's off a little bit further off the head. Ears like this. Andres going to have one paw up. He's got a paw up on one of the leaves here. He's pushing it to the side. To take a peek at. What's going on with our characters? A, so There we go. And once I think I'm sketching in the right area, I can always just erase off those initial sketchy lines so that I can get a better feel for how he's going to turn out once I income. I think I'm going to point this face a little bit. Give a little bit of shape to that. Not quite so rounded. That looks better, I think. And let's get in. He's hidden like the snake. He's hidden in the bush here, so let's do a few different would do some different style. There's going to be round style leaves. I'm just doing a little dart through them so that they look a little different. Okay, lots of different variety. That should work. You could show I don't quite have room because my lizards here. You could have shown just the top of his tail coming through, but I'll leave him at that. Let's ink in this guy. I haven't put any spots in him. Because I'm trying to decide if he needs to be a panther or a leopard. And also, I haven't done any patterning on my other characters on my snake or my caterpillar here yet. So I don't want to have too many characters with patterning, you know, I can always add it afterwards. And he's looking over here. He could be looking over at the gorilla. Be looking over here theg. And just a little two. Let's see he knows he want two paws up. Let's see how he looks. I'll leave it. I'll leave it at one. Okay. I'll put the two paws. Let's see what L's see what it looks like. There's one p. And our leaf in here he is going to have his other pap. He's curious guy. Brilliant. And then I can just, you know, move these leaves around just suit, okay? Le pattern on them. That's it. We can put in more leaves and foliage here afterwards I'll wait on that. Let's look at the gorilla, and I'm possibly this little frog guy here. The gorilla, make sure I've got enough space for this guy. To erase off this fg he I want to make sure I get in my nice fg. Kin being there. He just got his little little front legs out here on top of the leaf, like that. I give a nice little smile. I'm going to move nostrils. There he is. And here, we're going to need a few more leaves here. Then the gorilla peaks out. So his eyes line those up. Top of his head is squared off. That's why. I want to look quite big, so I just make them quite broad and angle it out so that we just don't know how far he goes. So he's quite big guy. And his mouth. He's look like he has a bit of an underbk go here we go. Smile on him. I'm going to give him nostrils as well. He'll look over there. Then not showing any arms or anything on that character, and we need some crazy leaves down here. I guess we can probably fill these in now. Okay? Maybe a lot of the s. I'm going to change. I'm going to give myself some rounded leaves or maybe maybe there need to be tropical flowers in here. Okay. Let's just get in a couple of these by him and then here, I think I'm going to do some tropical flower to. Let's in these two characters. I don't think it really matters which ones first. I'm going to do the frog guy. I like his little smile. Yeah, let's get his. Legs in. I had a lot of curious characters in this drawing. Perfect. Then the leaf. And now our gorilla eyes. Looking over and around and around his face. You could have given he could have eyebrows, you know, if you want to give him eyebrows. You go to leave him. And now we need to hide him in a little bit of bush. That's probably good. And now, we can decide on maybe some trouble flowers. I want to have you in here. Brilliant. 5. Trees, Flowers and Foliage: I got most of our characters in. We could I feel like there needs to be a little something up here. You know, maybe we can do something small, like, you could do a butterfly, or, I'm gonna do a little I do a little moss the Jung I'm gonna do a little mosquito fly in. Could fly in the other way. I think that's pretty good. He's gonna hear us. He's a friendly mosquito, you know. He doesn't bite you. He just comes in to say hello. Littles, maybe he's no bit long. Look that deadly. Here we go. There's a mosquito. Like I said, it could be a butterfly. You could add that in as well, it's up to you. There could be something sat on this branch. It could have a spider or something sat on the branch. I'll leave it though. I'm going to leave it plain. And I'll draw him in and then we can just finish off our fol. I definitely want to get in some tropical flowers, k. So We can decide where they're going to go cause they'll draw attention at me, not as much as a character. But ops missed I missed drawing his chest in here. Here it go. Not as much as a character, obviously, but it's still something that will grab grab attention. This is what happens when you erase off your pencil and you realize, Oh, look, my character is not attached to miss parts of his body. All right. Let's get that. It's ca I made my leaves a little bit shorter than expected. Okay. Lovely. Up here, I've got a good amount of space. So let's put in some leaves. Some of these, and let's get in some tropical flowers here. Okay. Just I'm going to do two like that. And I've done these kind of longer. Style leaves. And then up here, I'm going to do just like a broader leaf. Okay? I want to show a fair amount of varieties, so let's do some. Broader style of leaf. It's not about space to stick one other little character, but I think we'll find this is going to be enough. And possibly, you know, possibly I could show a different style of, you know, leaf coming in here at the edges of this character. You know, another little pointed. I'm so we had down here. I'm going to put, I think another flower down here just to make it, you know, three, I could I could do a different style. I'll do a longer kind of kind of petal like that. Go off the page. That should do the trick. And then I'll ink this in, and then we'll see if we need anything else. We do have our ground line here, so I want to just fill that in with a little bit of, you know, this style of brush. I'm not going to do the details in there. It's we're going to show the outline of the bush there. And then that will probably continue off our page. I want to take my viewers eyes off the page there. Maybe I'll bring this up let's see if it needs to I'm careful where I intersect my characters, right? So that's why I brought this line down here. I don't want to I don't want to make a confusing line that goes, for example, right into the character's tail like that. I don't want to do that. So I want the bush to go like this, you know, into his body and then down like that, which might work. Okay. But I don't want it to be confusing to my viewer's eye. I think that will probably do the trick. And I make sure that these lines are going to come down into okay positions versus my foreground. I think that's good. Let's outline the foliage. I'm going to do the flowers first. And I'll do this flower too. Might be a bit big. I'm going to make this one. Actually, I'm going to make it a little bit smaller here. I don't want too much competition with my characters. That's what I'm thinking. I goes off the page. I think that's enough. Lead into this kyle, right? I think that all works Up to these leaves. I need to finish off my vine. I'll do that once I got these leaves and above. That should do the trick. One more here. And my vine. I can just follow this line around. Oh, I forgot my mosquito. I'll do him in a minute. I might need a little branch. I don't know. Get in the ground line. We're going to leave this plane. I think we've got enough. I think I've got enough going on in my drawing. Few little leaves here. And last but not least our mosquito, hold on. I want to race off my lines and see how everything's looking. There's a lot of sketching in this because it's very dense with all of the jungle. I find my drawing winds up being very, you know, a lot of pencil lines on it, very sketchy. But sometimes I find I need that in order to figure out where everything is going to go for a drawing that just has a lot more going on in it and where it's all quite interconnected. So anyways, by the end, you can take a lot of racing. I'm most there. Brilliant. Now, our our little mosquito last but not least. I can't forget him. Simple little legs. And in he comes. Brilliant. Well, I hope you enjoyed lost in the jungle. And if you have finished your drawing, I love seeing everyone's work. Do post your work in our group. 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