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Let's go ahead and let's try drawing three fourths view character so we'll start with female number.

We'll try drawing a male teacher from my pencil point.

OK so we already kind of know how to draw three quarters head.

So it's just basically going to be like drawing it three quarters Loomis said.

So let's go ahead and start by drawing her circle and drawing our center line to find the angle of the

head something like that and then we kind of sketch in that job there.

Whatever kind of a shorter sort of jaw line area

bring your chin out to about there.

So even though that's the center the chin kind of comes off that center line because the front of the

face kind of protrudes off the front of the school.

So bring that shit out there.

Sketch in that ear.

Let's go ahead and figure out where our mouth is going to go.

Be right there.

The nose kangaroo.

Their eyes can go right here on this line to make sure that is slightly angled because it needs to be

angled downwards like this center line

Let's go and draw her neck in so many give her kind of a pose where her neck is kind of angled forward

like this because her body is going to be kind of

angled in the opposite direction and we can roughly sketch us out.

I'm not looking at reference so I just can have to figure this out from my own knowledge.

She's going gonna do something like that

remember keep drawing lightly because you don't want this to show through very much in your final drawing.

Eyes the nose will be right there the eyes will be somewhere right here.

So one eye will be kind of right there and the other one will be over here

eyebrows would be something like this

you heard a lot neck is looking a little bit too long.

So kind of rework her body a little bit

sometimes a good way to kind of decide where your collarbone and all that is going to go

over your shoulder it goes by drawing in your collarbone first.

All right.

So there is our first rough go ahead.

I want to start by doing the first part of my second wrap by starting with the eyebrows kind of defining

what I want the expression to be.

So just to kind of a sort of an empathetic looking kind of eyebrow I could say kind of angled straight

like that.

The other one will kind of have arching upwards like that

then let's go and figure out how we want these eyes to be shaped

so I'm not kind of do anything like that on the bottom just slightly curved.

You don't get to this other eye because we're drawing this in three quarters view.

We kind of just see this curve right here of the eye like that and then we see the curve of the island

like that.

That'll become a little bit more prominent once we start darkening in these lines for this because we're

seen as three quarters here this going to have a little bit less of a curve to it right there and then

we'll be kind of a sharp curve there that kind of curves down like that.

You get the eyelid

kind of let that brow go into the island because it's kind of squishing down my kind of a race underneath

the eye because certain get a little bit dark and I don't want it to look very dark and I want to look

like there's circles under her eyes

let's go under the nose so I just kind of do an oval like this.

Right.

And kind of turn that into a triangle pointy shape.

And I just let that kind of run up into the eyebrow like that.

This character would just give her a closed mouth.

Kind of give her a slight smirk so kind of bring up the corner of her mouth like that

to the bottom left

and let's figure out let's give her a nice big sort of cheek like that and cheekbone.

Let that come back in curve out like that and to the chin maybe not too much

kind of round this chin out just a little bit.

So it's not too angular

kind of rework that eyebrow just a little bit that

kind of a sketch in a little bit more of her cheek bone in the fullness of her cheek right there.

Then let's figure out what we want her hairstyle to be.

So let's see

maybe I'll give her a little bit shorter hair.

Actually maybe I'll give her long hair

so I'm just going to kind of survey roughly sketching in some lines some shapes kind of trying to figure

out

what it is I'm looking for.

So if her hair kind of acts like a blanket we kind of have it just kind of wrap out onto the edges of

her shoulder like that.

Maybe we can add like a braid right there that kind of holds up some hair like this.

We'll have a center part right there right down the center of the head.

Draw the other central hair like that.

And now let's go ahead and give her some bangs.

Maybe have some hair hang down in front of her ears as well and I'll just kind of roughly sketch in

kind of the shape that I want the bangs to move in

so it's very rough at this point.

And as we go along we'll just keep refining it.

Let's go ahead and sketch in the eyes so we could have her looking after the side if we wanted to.

Maybe we'll have her looking at us.

Go ahead and bring her lips up just a little bit.

Maybe we'll make her chin just a little tiny bit smaller

bring the bottom the chin up a little bit

push shirt on her

support.

It's important to note that when you're running the three quarters through the nose kind of is off from

the center line.

You can see the center line is kind of on the edge of the nose.

You do want to put this nose right on the center line you want to put it off from it out towards the

outer side of the face just because when you're as a face starts to turn the nose protrudes off that

center line and so it'll be off of it.

Now on it

all right I'll go ahead and kind of rework kind of the shape of her eye just a tiny bit

something like that.

Maybe I'll try to make her face a little bit more red and see how that looks just kind of jaw shape

like that kind of like that a little bit better

I don't want her ears sticking out into her profile so they kind of bring that in a little bit

in fact maybe we'll just cover that altogether and see if that looks that looks pretty good.

Sketching a little bit of blush just by doing some cross hatching like that.

Since your shoulders the axis of your shoulders are going like that we also want her breasts to be going

like that as well

all right great.

Let's go ahead and grab our other pencil and Let's finalize this.

So

go ahead and darken in those irises darken in the upper lid

go hand drawn her eyelids

for NOSTRIL HOLD the edge of the nostril was going to draw the shape that I want the nose to be in something

like that

drawing the profile of her face

kind of change the angle this heritage kind of comes out like that

then we'll go ahead and do her hair up here.

Now I think it's a little bit too high so we're going to do some to kind of bring down the volume of

her hair like that

and remember if we think that direction to every line and that sort of gesture to everything it's really

going to help bring our design all the way around and make it look good

and then go and sketching these things

this kind of break them up like this.

Now we can make these look like braids kind of by doing some angled ovals like that.

And some wrinkles into her shirt.

And a little bit of shading underneath the jaw line just help differentiate between her head and her

neck

all right.

It's looking pretty good.

Another thing we can do is we want we can take even another colored pencils so in this case I'm taking

some graphite and I'll just kind of darken in these eyelashes even more the eyebrows just to really

make them stand out.

Thicken them up a little bit as well.

Matt just kind of helps make the face more of the focal point.

All right great.

So there we go.

So there's a three quarters view of a female sort of animation styled character.

Again you want to take a lot of time to make sure that you develop your character properly.

So this is ok looking but I could definitely take it further if I really went through the steps we talked

about where we were going to silhouette.

When we work on their thing when we figure out what their storyline is stuff like that and then also

when we play around with the features on their face their body proportions the style all of that that

all goes into the character design.

All right.

Now let's just really quick.

Let's do a male character.

So go ahead and start by sketching a circle like this.

Now some things about the male when you're drawing a character is that typically their brow is going

to be a little bit more prominent in general.

Now this is a holes obviously another rule that you can definitely break.

So you can have the four had come down like this and you can really have that brow just kind of stick

out like that.

Let's go ahead and find our center line.

Something like that.

Another thing is the male face tends to be a little bit longer so we can kind of bring that pretty far

down like that

but the ear right about there

and then we get pretty angular shape so the cheekbone for example can be really angular when it comes

down and to the chin which we can also make very angular that go ahead and kind of figure out where

we want the eyes to be so one I will kind of be right here.

That's kind of a curvature of it the nose will just kind of go in front of that because of the angle

we're looking at.

It would just get pretty covered up the nose right about there.

So just doing kind of an angled line like that and one for the front plane and one for the nostril whole

area.

We'll come back in detail that further in a second.

Go ahead and draw the mouth.

So just start by kind of deciding where I want the center crease at the mouth to be

then we do the bottom left

we'll talk a little bit more here in a second about how we draw the male lips how it's kind of different

from drawing females.

All right.

And then for the other eye let's go ahead.

We're gonna place a somewhere back here so just kind of sketch out kind of where the eyeball is gonna

be and then we'll build our eye off of that and then let's go ahead and draw and our eyebrows so to

kind of give him an eyebrow.

Kind of like hers over here just a little bit sort of angled upwards like that.

So this one's kind of angled downwards as soon as angled up having different eyebrows kind of helps

your character along.

I think if you have the same eyebrows and both sides kind of boring.

So if you can kind of change expression on each side it will create a more dynamic look and expression

basically.

All right.

I mean kind of sketch in those eyelids.

So for this guy kind of just do a line over that over the eyeball and then I'll go ahead sketch and

a line like that for as other eye.

All right.

So there we go.

So we kind of turn those two circles into eyes by adding in some simple eyelids.

And you can do this by looking at reference and just kind of seeing the general shape of those eyelids.

You can add a little bit of eyelid in right there.

So I show a little bit right there and then because of the brow because of the way it's angled I just

kind of do a straight line coming across like that

go ahead and have a character kind of looking way after the side they're behind them

something like that

maybe I'll soften that brow up just a little bit.

Then for years we don't that year to be higher than the eyebrows so when you bring that you're down

somewhere right about here

so there's our ear

and we'll give this guy kind of a let's give him a bun.

Maybe this would be kind of more of an Asian samurai type character character.

So to find my hairline figure out where that is

bring that down that

and for the bun I kind of do more of an angular shape like that.

I think that's a little bit more interesting looking and with animation style stuff you can really do

stuff like that even if it doesn't really make any sense in real life.

We can take creative liberties to make stylized decisions like that.

Let's go ahead and draw the neck in so come right out the back of the head like that into the shoulders.

So his body will kind of be at a side angle

where we give him some facial hair style that looks

I'm not a huge fan of it maybe give him but you're honestly I don't know.

Just keep him clean shaved.

It's definitely the type of stuff you can play around with when you're designing your own character

or if you want you can try it on this guy.

If you're drawing along

all right.

Great.

So now from here we can just go ahead and take our darker pencil and just finalize the design and a

little bit of shadow right there.

We can also give him a little bit of an Adam's apple if we wanted to.

There's a skinnier character if you wanted to you could definitely bulk him up.

At this notice it is kind of stretched out.

I try to keep my head out of these shots so so sorry about that but just imagine if this guy is a little

bit more squished but you should be getting the idea of how to draw these.

That is an issue with recording drawings.

Is that you have to keep your head out of the shot.

And so it kind of sometimes stretch your drawings out just a little bit.

Some big thick eyebrows that keep them nice and square.

That's another thing goes with males their eyebrows should be pretty thick and you should keep them

pretty square looking and you get all these nice angles in their face

and then we just kind want to indicate the bottom lip like that.

Do want to draw a whole line for it.

And another thing is that we don't want to draw the upper lip part.

Generally you just want to draw a line for the upper lip like that and then you just want to indicate

the bottom lip.

And that's enough for male characters.

Go and draw the nose

get the monster hole in there.

Out in the shadow

when it comes to drawing the male eyes.

We don't have to darken in these up upper eyelashes so much or thicken them up.

You want to be dark but you don't want them to be very thick and you don't want to do that little flower

thing on the end.

I mean there's a little flower there but you want to do a little flower like that.

You don't want it to look like they're wearing makeup unless that's what you're going for.

But if you're not typically just want to put a nice dark line there but not too thick and not a word.

Great female characters

go and fill as I and I'm just going to give this guy.

Dark eyes like that

we could just end some like five o'clock shadow for this character.

Kind of interesting looking

we get a hairline

we get the direction of her hair

sometimes I like to kind of sketch out and skip areas just so I get an idea of where the direction of

the hair is going then I'll fill in between because I just find that a lot easier

approach shape that hairline up a little bit more like that.

All right.

There we go.

So there is a male character and a female character from three quarters of you.

So the main thing to remember is that your heads are gonna be a little bit more three dimensional when

it comes to this style of animation.

So for example as his head turns his nose since it's so big and large it really starts to cover that

eye.

And you can tell that his eyes are just kind of sunken in a lot more just because of how far back this

eye is.

So it's just a little bit more three dimensional but the anime style and the sort of classic Disney

animation cel are very similar.

They're actually the anime cells very inspired by the classic animation style.

So you'll see a lot of similarities in them.

But by drawing lots of different versions of each style you'll really start to pick up the differences

between them.

All right.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

Thanks for watching.

And if you have any questions about drawing in this classic animation style go ahead and post them to

the Q and A section of the course and I'll make sure that I answer them or my teacher assistant.

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