All language subtitles for 035 Introduction To Drawing Character Forms Proportions.en

In this section we're gonna be talking about characters and their forms and proportions.

So what our character form and proportions.

Well let's go and label this page.

So first off we already kind of know what a form is.

So all characters are broken up into their simple form so forms are just anything that's three dimensional

has multiple surfaces.

So for example a cube is a form

a cylinder is a form

and those are just examples of forms and our forms can come in different variations.

So for example we can have organic forms so things that are more curved or maybe for example the cylinder

it can be curved and one side can be bigger and the other side can be tapered off and become smaller.

So we have these different types of forms then we have proportions.

So what is a proportion.

Well

portions are basically the distances and the sizes between different parts of the body.

So for an example let's go ahead and let's just sketch out a quick little arm.

All right.

So let's say that we have a character like this the proportions are going to basically be the distances

between different parts.

So for example the distance between the shoulder and the elbow and then the distance between the elbow

and the wrist and we'll talk more about this in in the next lecture so I'm not going to go super in

depth with this but abortions are basically just referring to what are the relationships between these

are these the same.

Are they shorter or longer.

And when we change these it really changes the way our character looks and makes them look either more

real or more like a cartoon character.

So this where we really got to have fun is with our proportions and with our forms.

So one thing to take note of is that when you're drawing your forms and your portions of your character

all of this should take place in the rough phase of your drawing.

So when we're drawing nice and loose and drawing out our form so for example the head we draw a cylinder

like this head our construction loans to market where the eyes and maybe the mouth go well add a chin

stuff like that.

Those are all your forms and your proportions and this all happens in the rough phase.

You don't want to be working on your proportions and forms once you get to your final drawing and your

darkening and your lines and solidifying the design you want to make sure that you have all of that

roughed out sketched out so that when it comes to the very end and you add in those final lines all

you're really adding is detail and defining where those lines should be.

Now proportions and forms like I said can be exaggerated and this is where it really comes into play

with character design.

So for example let's say that we are drawing a person

like this.

This is going to be their chest.

Some breaking their chest down into a simple rectangular cube form and we'll just do a cylinder for

the neck

just sitting right on top of that rectangular cube.

Then we go ahead and do the head was gonna kind of and sort of an egg shape here for the head.

Can go and mark out the center of the face

some some like that simple like that.

Well what we can do now is we can go ahead and we can take the same form but we're gonna exaggerate

the form.

So for example I can kind of make this more of an organic form and I can enlarges so I can go ahead

and first start off by drawing this rectangle here and I'm gonna have it taper towards the bottom so

it's a little bit smaller towards the bottom and I'm having it kind of curve.

So like this just add more dynamics to my design.

And we add kind of a curve to this shape here

now we can go ahead and.

The neck in

and I could even go ahead and kind of change the proportions of the set so I can make it a lot longer.

Of ahead

all right.

Something like that.

Now you can see that these are very similar but they're different because we change the forms in the

proportions so you can see that basically every character design that's a human character design is

going to be based off of an actual real human.

We're just changing the proportions and we're changing the forms.

So let's have a look at another example.

Sometimes we can just really simplify a form down.

So for example we can just simplify a character into just a super simple shape.

So let's do kind of a maybe like an eggplant type shape.

Something like that

and add some construction lines just so we can kind of understand this a little bit better.

Right.

But just a simple form like that and then we can just base an entire character off of that form.

So rather than getting complicated with a bunch of different forms what do we try to fit a character

into this form so maybe we could do a head right there.

Right.

Go ahead and give it a little.

Give this person a little arm.

Go ahead make this kind of an old lady character so could go ahead and sketch out her risk coming out

like that.

Right.

I'm not going to get too detailed with this.

This is just to kind of show an example.

Give her some curly hair

give her a cane

maybe turn this form into kind of a dress

right.

And so even though we added a little bit to this form it's still that same basic form and almost her

entire body is built off that form.

So sometimes you can use the idea of forms and proportions to really just simplify things.

Now really quick before in this lecture I just want to show you one more thing about proportions and

that is how you can change them.

So we're gonna use a face as an example.

So let's say that we just draw a head right.

If you're familiar with the Loomis head we're basically just gonna be drawing kind of a Loomis head

with correct proportions.

So we start with a circle.

Then we add some sort of a chin.

You can choose whatever kind of job you want

right.

And that might be looking a little oval.

My head's not directly above it.

And so sometimes I tend to draw things a little stretched out when I'm recording these lectures so I'll

try to squish that back down a little bit.

They want us to look kind of accurate to an actual person's face.

All right then right at the center of that circle we'll go and draw a straight line and that'll represent

our eyebrow line

we'll draw the center of the face the nose line and the hairline go and at the middle of the lip line.

Right.

And so I can go and draw a character but their eyebrows on the eyebrow line

something like that and then I'll go ahead and give them some eyes somebody give them some kind of regular

sized eyes.

Now I'm drawing this really quickly.

So this might not look super good but I'll try to get the proportions looking pretty decent so that

way you get the concept of how we can change proportions to make our characters look a more exaggerated

more fantastical and sometimes you might not want to do this.

But most time there's gonna be some level of exaggeration in your character give him some lips.

Give him some ears so the ears tablet ears shouldn't go any higher than the eyebrow line.

All right great.

So that right there is somebody that has pretty decent proportions are pretty accurate to the actual

human face.

So how can we take this and go ahead and exaggerate it to make it look more like the style of character

we want so we can change all kinds of things about proportions everything from the size of different

facial parts so the lips or the nose or the eyes for example or we can even start moving things around

for example proportions include things like where the eyebrows lay on the face where the hairline starts

and where the nose starts and we'll talk more about this later in the course we'll talk about what the

correct proportions are but for now you just need to understand that we can move these things around.

So if we go ahead we draw another character to draw this one a little bit bigger so you guys can see

it better.

So first off I can kind of reshape that jaw out a little bit and just make it a little bit more simple

just kind of like a point like that to the center of the face and that we can do things like we can

bring that eyebrow line down so rather than running through the center of the circle let's go and bring

it down just a little bit not too much but a little bit further down in the middle of that circle because

that's where the eyebrow line would tend to be.

And then the nose line.

Let's go ahead and put the nose line right there on the bottom of that circle line rather than a little

bit higher like we did over there and we'll go ahead and do a line for the mouth right in the center

of there.

So already we're changing all the proportions compared to a real human's head.

So now we can go ahead and sketch in those years so on follow the rule that the ears never go higher

than the eyebrows.

Otherwise it's gonna look kind of weird.

We can break that rule sometimes but in this case I don't want to.

All right.

And then what we can do is we can go ahead and put those eyebrows on

put them right there on the eyebrow line.

All right.

And then we can go ahead and add the ISO for the eyes what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go ahead and

add some I's that are pretty large.

I want them to be a lot larger than actual eyes.

So messing with the proportions by making these eyes larger.

Go ahead and add the nose.

It's going to do a V shape like that to represent the nose cone to make it more into a triangle maybe

go and darken and lines start to refine the drawing.

We can even change things on this style of character.

I'm going to kind of make them look a little bit cross-eyed not really cross-eyed but they're just gonna

be looking a little bit more towards and towards the center

that might actually be a little bit too much.

So kind of reposition the iris they're just kind of like that couldn't fill it in.

Give me a little kind of a little smirk like that.

Just a simple line.

There you go.

Now you can see that we drew two faces that are pretty similar.

They're both kind of female faces.

They have similar eyebrows similar shaped eyes.

But the main difference is we've moved all the proportions so we changed the proportions between the

eyebrows and the top of the head.

We moved the nose down a little bit and we moved the mouth down a little bit.

And we also did things like enlarge the eyes.

So these are all different types of things you can do to make your characters look different and also

give them different styles.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.