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In this lecture we're gonna be learning and talking about how to draw sort of that classic Disney animation

style of animation drawings or character design that is so let's go ahead and begin.

So most character designs are usually gonna start with a circle for the head.

You're going to build off that and the same goes for sort of this classic animation style.

So let's just go ahead and start off.

I just kind of drawn a front view of a girl and we'll start off by drawing that because that'll be a

good example just kind of to get us started.

So I'm gonna go ahead and start by drawing a circle like that.

No go ahead draw my center line so I know where the center of my face is that they need to decide how

far down I want my chin to go.

Now it's very different with this style of animation people's faces a completely different it's not

like anime where the faces look very similar and around with sort of this classic animation style the

faces can be completely different so it's really kind of up to you how big you want the chin to be.

So I go down about that far and I've drawn a jaw kind of like this

nose try to mimic that same line right there on that side now because it's gonna be a female we're gonna

give her kind of a pointy chin in this style of animation the females tend to point your chins but you

wanna make sure that she has a soft jaw

meaning that it just has this nice curve to it and it doesn't angle flat like that kind of angles up

and then curves.

All right great.

So now we have those sketches.

Let's go ahead inside where our eyes are going to go some of my eyes.

Some wrote about down there.

So not right on the not in the middle of the circle but a little bit lower than that my place some are

right about there.

And again these proportions kind of change from character to character but we'll get into kind of more

of like what makes these characters look a specific way.

All right.

So there's our eyeline.

Let's put our hair line somewhere right about there

then our nose would be somewhere right down here the mouth would be somewhere right down here and then

we kind of mark out the ears

and let's just kind of rough in a neck

they've all kind of angled the shoulders up a little bit.

All right great.

So from here we can kind of go ahead.

So this is our first rough.

Then we go ahead and do our second rough so that's what we're gonna really bring in all of our detail

actually included in our first draft.

I would probably mark out about where we want the ice to be

and I'll just kind of a rough enough shape for them so just kind of an arch on the top and arch on the

bottom it's kind of getting that rough placement and size in there their

and then I'll go ahead and kind of draw where I want the eyebrows to be

right.

We'll kind of have one of our eyebrows kind of kind of angled downwards and the other one will be kind

of up.

Just give a little bit more expression to our character

and we'll make this character kind of smiling so I kind of sketch in a mouth opening like that

and actually looking at this.

This is why we always rough things out.

I think that our eyes are a little bit too high.

So what I want to do is I want to bring those down.

I put them right on the middle of my eyeline and I think what I actually want to do is I want them to

be the top of the eyelids need to be at the top of this line

it's just something kind of more like that.

No that's really light.

But as we start to get more into it you'll start to see it kind of come in a little bit more already.

And then we can go ahead kind of sketch out roughly what we want the hair to be like.

I'm just going to kind of do a big loop like that and I'll come back down

so do hairstyle.

Kind of like that

and maybe I'll move this part over just a little bit.

It's kind of right in the center of the head but I actually want to kind of be more like over here

and just take note how rough I'm drawing this right.

It doesn't have to be perfect at all.

The very very very rough

right and I'm just kind of working with these shapes to try to get what it is that I'm looking for.

I don't want her hair to look too poofy but I do want to have some volume.

All right.

So there we go.

So you can see that this kind of face and head kind of fall is a little bit kind of like the anime.

The thing about this classic style of animation kind of that Disney sell is it's a little bit three

or more three dimensional meaning that the forms feel a little bit more full and round when it comes

to drawing anime for example the the eyes the mouth all that.

It's just kind of plastered onto the surface of the face.

Sometimes there is more three dimensional anime but when it comes to this l of animation that's really

what kind of sets it apart is that you have more three dimensional aspects to it you'll see that in

later drawings that we do.

All right.

So now that we have kind of sketched in there as our first draft we can go ahead and kind of just sketch

in our second rough.

So this is gonna be our second detailed layer and I'm just gonna keep using my blue pencil for now

and we can go and start on this.

I so I want these eyes to kind of be angled and so what I mean by that is if I go ahead and I draw the

upper lid like this

so I'll draw them both

and then I'll go ahead and draw the bottom lid

that you can see that the eyes kind of angle if you go from corner to corner it's kind of angled up

like that and that's what I want for the style of animation that kind of gives you the look you're looking

for now.

I don't always have to be like this this is just one type of eye.

We'll talk a little bit more about eyes here in a second.

So now let's go ahead and let's sketch in our eyebrow

so that like I said this eyebrow will be down

that and then the other one

will be more up just to give her character a little bit more expression and I'll darken those eyebrows

and then let's go ahead and figure out where irises are going to go.

So we're going to put on Iris right here

another one right there.

So those are pretty good sizes that just barely touching the top of the eyelid.

Now another thing about drawing this style of animation is sometimes if you kind of make your characters

look a little cockeyed I know that sounds weird but if you make their eyes just look inward just a little

bit kind of it makes them look a little bit more charming a little bit more appealing because what it

does it kind of adds a level of innocence to your character.

So if you can incorporate that into their eyes that can help your character along a little bit better

we'll go ahead and do the mouth.

I'm going to move the mouth up just a little bit.

Just because I think it's a little bit too low.

We want a little bit more space for the chin

and as you can see I have the mouth kind of angle a little bit more over here on this side just because

she's kind of pulling this cheek up a little bit more.

All right let's go ahead and add in her teeth.

So her upper teeth will be right there

and I'm actually kind of bring her bottom lip up a little bit more like that.

Go ahead and kind of decide what the side of her face will look like a little bit more kind of that

profile social.

Her cheek will kind of bump out and we'll go into the jaw line the chin

then we have her ear or here right here

and then it's up to you if we want we can just kind of go ahead and shade this in for her eyes.

Or we can give her a pupil.

It's whatever you want so give her some pupils

it's important that you kind of work on the placement of your irises and your pupils so it looks like

your character is actually looking in a direction and doesn't look like they're looking in two different

directions

and we can kind of sketch in the upper lip the Phil trim part

go and fill in these areas in the mouth or on the teeth.

At the bottom left

we can even go ahead sketching a little blush across the face like that.

It took some of that hair back behind your ear

and we'll have the rest of the direction kind of like that.

I'll bring this kind of swoop up bring it down a little bit.

So I think it's kind of sweeping up a little bit too much

and remember we're on our second rough so you can still definitely change things about this.

This is the perfect time to do that is where you want to change things like the detail the overall shape

and size and placement is the best place to change that.

Isn't the first draft when it comes to changing the details.

This is where you really want to work on the details so the shape of your eyebrows the placement of

the iris which way are they looking stuff like that.

I'm not really liking how this hair's kind of doing that weird thing down there.

That doesn't look very real.

So I'll kind of rework this a little bit.

Now let's go ahead.

Kind of sketch in some eyelids.

Just very lightly.

You'll see it a little bit more on this one because their eyebrows raise and so that would kind of stretch

that eyelid out a little bit more

then we'll go ahead and kind of sketch those eyelashes and a little bit better.

Kind of give them a curve out

and I'm going to try.

Kind of squishing the bottom of this eyelid up a little bit because she's smiling so I kind of do something

like that because this cheek is kind of pushing up into that eye as she smiles on this side

sometimes it helps to kind of cover eyes and stuff like that to kind of figure out if something doesn't

look right

so I feel like this eye action needs to be squinting even more just to really kind of bring home that

she's smiling so many kind of curve this line like that.

All right.

Maybe I can kind of squint the other one just a little bit as well.

Something like that.

All right.

I think this is looking pretty good.

Let's go ahead.

I'm going to take a red pencil now to solidify this sometimes as you take a red and a blue and put them

together.

They kind of make a dark color.

I kind of like the look of it but you can just use a normal pencil or if you're using the normal pencil

the whole time.

That's fine as well.

Either way but this is our final and so this is where we really salute for who lit a fire.

Anything we want to keep.

And if we want to change something we can change it at this point.

Go ahead and drawing her eyes now.

I really want to thicken up and darken the eyelash.

And I think it's important when you're drawing animation sell the art that you don't completely draw

the line all the way around the eye.

If you do that it's gonna make it look like they're wearing dark eyeliner all the way around their eye.

And unless that's what you're going for you usually don't want to do that.

If you want them to look more natural if you want to look like maybe a little bit lighter makeup doing

it like this we'll just kind of help your character not look like they're wearing such a heavy amount

of makeup.

Couldn't draw those irises in you will add a little reflection in the eye so block that out.

See that in

it's gotten to your eyebrows.

Another thing about the style of animation is typically the eyebrows are thicker than an anime in anime.

The eyebrows will be pretty thin generally.

And with this style kind of the Disney style you get thicker looking eyebrows and they can also be a

little bit more square shaped to

go and draw the nose in like that's just going to launch the nostrils and two little lines for the outside

edge.

And then I'd like to just kind of shade and on the bottom side then maybe just kind of lightly kind

of sketch out a circle like that just to kind of define the form if you want you can kind of draw a

line up to the eyebrow.

It's really up to you

let's draw the smile.

Now the smiles looking a little bit weird to me.

So let's see if we can figure out how to rework it

so this is an example of where you can slightly change things with the final drawing pencil.

What I'll do is I'll kind of have her her teeth kind of biting over her bottom lip

so I kind of turned the inside of her mouth into her bottom lip like that.

That looks a little bit better.

I can go ahead and add a little bit of blush coming across here.

That

right there we go.

There's just kind of a I guess you could say sort of generic animation styled character.

Obviously you'd really want to work on your character design to really develop what your character is

or story and their thing.

What is there one thing this character actually kind of has a thing.

Her hair is pretty pretty extreme.

So that could possibly be her thing but you probably want to work on it a little bit more.

All right.

So next let's go ahead and let's talk about eyes really quick when it comes to the eyes.

Like I said there's kind of different eyes.

And again when it comes every sort of style of character design there's there's different styles and

different versions of everything.

And there's even things that haven't been discovered yet.

So there's different eye shapes that just people have been applied to that style yet.

So there's no rules.

Just keep that in mind I'm just kind of giving you some general ideas and practices in each genre of

character design.

So like we did before you have your eyes that can kind of be like human shape and they kind of angle

upwards like that.

Right.

And then you can get ones that are just kind of like you just kind of sketch out a country for the top

and slightly curve shape for the bottom and they're very big and wide.

All right.

So something kind of like that and then you get the ones where you can kind of just almost just do like

a circle like this and very similar to this one basically right and you can just kind of build your

eyelids off of that kind of sketch in like a little too dark there whatever.

Right.

So there's different have eyes these are just some general ones.

And from there you can go ahead and sketch in the IRS.

So have these all looking in different directions

so this one I like to kind of almost think about it as like an angle going like that and then kind of

almost a straight curved line like that and you get the bottom part here with a slightly curved line

like that.

The main thing you ought to focus on is just that angle from corner to corner that's going to give you

kind of that sort of animation feminine self looking eye

right.

And on this one we really just want to enhance

that upper eyelid like that the bottom eyelid like this.

And typically you want it to be darker on the bottom eyelid towards the far back corner of the eye so

we can do the same thing with this on

you'll notice too that as the eye looks in a different direction it kind of gets squashed a little bit.

So right here it still looks pretty circular but it's slight bit more of an oval same with over here

then for the eyelids for this one we can kind of just do something like this

maybe can hang over a little bit more like that for the eyelid for this one

just something like this kind of follows that same shape and maybe it flattens out on the top for the

brow.

And it's going to basically be the same for this one and you can kind of change the style of the eyelids.

Like I said all this can change.

So I just really to remind you of that often because I don't want to think that these are rules or these

are things you have to follow.

This is just you can draw along with me.

Put this stuff in your visual library.

Practice drawing other people's style of animation art and just figure out what it is that you like.

But this is a good place to start.

And then we can go ahead and add the IRS or the pupil I mean that we're here.

So this needs to be slightly oval as well like the IRS right here as well.

Right.

And from here we can go ahead and add in the eyelashes.

Now one of the main things that are going to define the difference between a male and a female eye when

you're drawing characters are gonna be their eyelashes at least when it comes to their face.

There's there's obviously a lot of other things like the Square ness of the jaw how long the nose is

one of the main things you want to focus on is that eyelash.

So this idea right here could possibly be a guy's eye.

This could also be a man's eye or a male.

But adding in that dark thick eyelash is going to kind of define whether it's a male or female.

So let's go ahead and kind of darken up here again these are all rules you can break things you can

do whatever you want but just in general that's how people kind of perceive that

and typically I like to just kind of keep my eyelashes very simple with this style I just like to make

them kind of aesthetic sort of shapes like that if you want you can draw individual eyelashes but kind

of breaks this style of drawing sometimes you can do kind of just like maybe three simple shapes kind

of coming off the edge like that and that's all right.

And typically you want that big flare thick piece coming off of the back edge corner like we have right

here

scurrying to sketch it on this side

you do the same thing on this are here

right great.

So there's just kind of like three examples of eyes.