All language subtitles for 091 Comic Style Character Drawing.en

In this lecture we're gonna be learning how to draw in the comic book sort of realistic style of genre.

So really what this comes down to when you compare it to something like the animation style or the anime

style is that comic book style art tends to be a little bit more realistic.

It's still very stylized but it has a little bit more realistic shapes to it.

The proportions might be unrealistic.

You might blow some of these muscles up like three times larger than they'd be in real life but the

actual shapes and the structures are kind of more realistic than you would have on an animation styled

one or an anime style one.

So let's go and get started.

Let's go ahead and start by talking about the facial features.

We'll move on from there.

So let's start by drawing a pair of eyes so we're going to draw some female eyes.

So this would be kind of a three quarters view.

So for the female eyes what we want to do is we want to kind of get sort of this nice curve line like

that we'll draw another eye right over here

and so just kind of like with our animation style eyes.

What we want is we want the Angle running through the tier duck like that.

And like that

once we have the kind of that curve in there then what we can do is we can go ahead and do the bottom.

I led

just kind of a curve like that.

We'll do the same thing on this side

mingled and kind of drawn the tier duct.

So a little bit more realistically can we actually kind of include that tier duck in there even though

when we draw other styles of character design sometimes we leave that out.

But in this case we want to include that because we want it to look a little bit more realistic

that we can go ahead and add in our eyelids

and I'll add something like that and the other island

this

and that's for the eyebrows good and kind of do a curved form kind of coming up like that and four female

eyebrows you want there to be more of an arch and you want it to be a little bit higher up off of the

eye.

So something like that you'll see when we draw the male eye that the eyebrows will tend to be a little

bit closer to the eye and have a little bit less of an arch

I mean go ahead and drawn our irises so I'm gonna go ahead and drawn Iris.

Kind of looking at the viewer like this on the top to be slightly covered

something like that.

Go ahead and draw on our pupil

All right.

That's looking pretty good.

So now that we have kind of that blocked out what we can do is we can switch over to a darker color

a darker pencil whatever you're using and we can start to actually go in there and detail this out further

and finalize.

So that was our first rough.

And if you wanted to you could really do an even your first rough and then do your second rough which

would kind of be what we just barely did we kind of skipped the first rough analysis definable.

So we'll just go ahead and do our final line work.

And that's what comic book art is all about.

Is that line work.

Making it look like it has a comic book sort of threshold type of style.

What that means is it's just like you get these really dark thick lines so you want to pay attention

to your line quality how thick or thin are your lines.

And you also want to pay attention to things like the shadow sometimes you just want to make all the

shadows just one dark color

stuck in that eyelash up and try adding a few individual eyelashes like this

and on the female eyes if you can really stick it up and darken around the eyes that'll help it look

a little bit more look a little bit more female.

Another thing is when you're drawing the comic book style is if you can kind of skip little parts you

can see like a do a curved line there and a curved line there.

And right here I kind of skip an area that's kind of help it along a little bit.

You go ahead and switch over to a different brush.

I think I can get something more like what I'm looking for if I use a harder edge brush.

I think that looks a little bit better

you can see that this eye just looks a little bit more realistic than the other eyes we've drawn previously

for animation for the animation style.

And so that's another big staple of drawing comic book styled art is that it just looks more realistic.

So a good way to accomplish this realistic look is to look at reference see make sure that you're drawing

it very accurately and we'll talk about that here in a second we'll actually look at some reference

and we'll draw some comic book characters based off that reference

looks pretty good.

And again The curves that's really important with the eyes

the line quality so you can see how it's pretty thick right here on this part and then it slowly search

this thing out towards the tier duck.

Just want to keep it a nice thin line out there.

Same with these eyelids or keep the lines pretty thin like that and we can go ahead and sketch in the

eyebrows

and again just the note about female eyebrows is that they tend to be a little bit higher up off the

eye at least when it comes to comic book art.

And they also tend to be a little bit more arched so they have a little bit more urging them

to make those lines a little bit thinner

try adding some eyelashes down here.

All right great.

So there's some female common styled eyes.

Let's go ahead and try doing a male eye.

So when it comes to the middle eye basically where you're gonna be getting is you're gonna be getting

something very similar but kind of different.

So I like to add a lot more angles to my male eyes and what I'll do is I'll actually start out I start

out with my gray and then I'll switch over to my other color and grab my other brush that I was using

previously to do my sketch.

So we want to kind of start off with something more angular and boxy looking so if you remember males

when it comes to character zine usually you want them to have a little bit more angular shapes in them.

All right so that could be like the i

so it's just kind of some straight lines that make up that shape

and sometimes a brow will hang down pretty far so you'll see a little bit of the eyelid right there

and then with the males their eyebrows will hang down a lot closer to the eye

and they'll be less art.

So rather than doing a big arched eyebrow like that we just kind of do a straight line like this and

then it might curve a little bit down here at the end just like that.

It's important you don't cover too much of your pupil if you put the eyelid down there it's gonna make

your eye look like it's tired.

So make sure that the top of the pupil just barely touches the top of the eyelid or it's below that.

Great.

Let's go ahead and switch over to Black and we'll finalize these lines

and then with the males the upper eyelid.

You don't want it to be too thick.

You don't want to have a big heavy eyelash unless that's what you're looking for.

But in general you want it to be kind of thinner lines so you want to do this big thick line like we

did on the female I

all right.

There we go.

So there's kind of more of a male comic book style.

I said let's talk about the nose and the mouth.

So when it comes to the nose just kind of make this kind of quick for the nose.

It's kind of like anime where you really just want to simplify as much as possible so the nose might

be something like this.

So it kind of comes down like that and I'll switch over to my other brush I think that'll be better

for doing my preliminary sketch

so we can kind of sketch out an idea a rough idea of what the notes will be and size

and I'll do the nostril whole

the edge of the nostril

and then switching over to my black.

We want to do is we want to simplify this.

So the comic book style is all about simplifying so we can just kind of do it line like that one like

this

too little line there

and just like that just keeping it super simple.

We don't have to go in there really heavy with any shading or anything like that.

We just want to do some simple lines in there just to kind of indicate the shape of the nose.

All right let's go ahead.

Let's talk about the lip.

So for the lips it's just gonna be basically the same thing.

So go ahead draw pair lips so sketch out the middle crease first.

And so we kind of get that angled down part that and this will be kind of a three quarters view of the

lips and then we can go ahead and sketch out the upper lip.

So I'm just gonna do a curved line like this and you really want to exaggerate this on the male.

You want this to be a little bit less tall a little bit less prominent and pointy but on the all you

want to make sure that is nice and

angled and very exaggerated.

It's kind of like that.

Let's go ahead and do the bottom line

get a nice big bottom lip like that

and in the corners to make them look like they're smiling a little bit.

If we just kind of tick these two lines up like that increases of the mouth just kind of makes it look

like they're smiling rather than frowning.

And then we can go ahead switch over to our black or a darker pencil and detail this out.

So again we just want to keep it nice and simple.

So get the crease of the mouth.

Those lines are looking pretty bad so we'll try it again

go ahead and rotate my page just because that'll help me get these curves a little bit better.

Just do a little line down here to indicate the underside of the lip and I'll second that up quite a

bit.

We do a dark heavy shadow underneath the crease of the mouth and again you really want to focus on your

line quality so areas that are going to be in shadow.

You can really thicken those lines up right now look pretty good.

I'll go ahead and do this part of the loop

or something like that.

So just keeping it really simple you can see that just keeping that simple look keeping it simple lines

but at the same time keeping it realistic.

So keeping those actual human proportions and making it kind of look a little bit more like real eyes

rather than non realize or real lips rather than non real lips.

All right.

So now that we have the an idea of how we draw the features we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and

we're gonna draw some characters based off a reference because like I said our characters need to look

more realistic than need to have more realistic proportions I need to have more realistic shapes and

forms.

And so by using reference to get a started that'll help us make things that look a little bit more like

comic art rather than something more exaggerated like cartoon or Pixar type art.

So let's go ahead and begin.

So we go ahead switch back over to my light gray

I mean go ahead and just start sketching out our first rough so start by sketching out just a circle

for his head then looking at the shape of this guy's head just go ahead and kind of bring down two lines

off the side like this

and get his jaw

and I'll go ahead and add in his own

figure out where his nose is going to go

and also his lips

and I'm just looking back at my reference and that's where I'm getting the information from.

I'm just eyeballing it and kind of trying to figure out where those are going to go out of Center Line

for his face just slightly tilted a little bit to the right like that.

We can go ahead and sketch in the ears or at least kind of their simple shape

so his neck kind of just comes off like this

doesn't cut his Adam's apple right there.

Shoulders kind of go off like this

all right.

Now we can go ahead and kind of start sketching in his facial features.

So for his nose it's going to kind of block out the shape of his nose so you use kind of this diamond

sort of shape like that to just roughly roughly block that out same pretty light too because I don't

want to really see these blackout shapes once I'm done kind of block out his eyebrow right about there

I think

sketch out the shape of the eyes.

I just start with the upper eyelid.

It's constantly looking back on my reference see if it's kind of mansion it doesn't have to match exactly.

We're not trying to necessarily draw it to look exactly like this man but we do want to make it look

like realistic like a real human face.

Make it look like he's squinting a little bit more and by straightening the bottom eyelid

and we kind of get the sides of his head.

The temples like that these big cheekbones

big chin.

Go ahead and sketch out his lips

something like that or go ahead sketch in his nose.

Change his nose up a little bit.

I want to do a different nose on my character

and I like to sketch in kind of where my shadow is going to be as well

so go ahead and give him his hair

so I'll start out by kind of blocking out the shape of his hair first

and the direction of it.

Just make sure that you keep looking back at your reference.

That's gonna be the best way to get the best results when it comes to comic book art is if you use some

good reference

it'll make your piece look a lot more realistic and accurate.

A little reflection as I figure out where his pupils are gonna go

all right great.

So there's a rough let's go ahead and switch over to Black and we'll do our final line art now and we

really want to focus on the line quality.

That's the main thing we want to focus on when we're doing our comic book art for final drawing.

And also what we can do is if we want we can go ahead and at this point we can just get rid of our reference

if we'd like because now this is really our design.

This is this is what we want to create so we can change things up and do whatever we want at this point.

So by taking away our reference it just kind of takes away our ability to look at that and kind of take

from it anymore.

We have to just start using our imagination.

All right.

So let's go ahead begin to start with the eyes

kind of sticking up those upper lids a little bit

all right.

There we go.

So there's kind of a comic book style mail and you see that it looked very it looks very similar to

what we had for the reference but it looks a little bit different.

I went ahead and I stylized it to look a little bit more like a comic book Salah angled a lot of the

lines and added lines in areas where typically you wouldn't actually see a line in real life for example

here on his sort of cheekbone area.

I kind of sketched in some lines there just to kind of help that along.

And that's part of the comic books sell to is just kind of adding lines where there are actually lines

so like right here where the shadow or the bottom of the nose kind of gets divided.

Right there you can see the added kind of a line right there.

So that's type of stuff that we want to add to our comic book styled art.

All right.

I'm gonna go ahead and now do one for this girl right here.

So go ahead and timelapse this and I'll see you when I'm done.

All right.

Now that we have that sketched out let's go ahead and grab a darker color and we'll go ahead and do

the final lines.

So just as a reminder just remember that it's all about that line quality so you really want to pay

attention to it now there's not an exact formula to what the line quality should be.

Generally you want the areas with that you want your focal point to be to have higher contrast so the

eyelashes for example you want those to be a little bit darker for example and thicker.

Other than that just kind of experiment around when you have areas where it lines kind of cross.

So if they kind of go like this you really want to thicken up that area where they touch.

That's going to help them stand out a little bit more.

All right let's go ahead and let's do this.

All right.

So there we go.

There's a female sort of comic style character a little bit more realistic.

But yes.

So the best way to create characters that look more realistic is to just use reference.

There is no better way.

So if you look at some reference it's just going to really show through in your work.

So just make sure that every time you're trying to do character designs that look more realistic get

that reference find a pose find a face that is very similar to what you want to do and then just kind

of copy it over but change it up do your own thing add your own style.

One last note I want to give about this comic style is that pretty often you'll see this kind of cross

hatching technique where you'll shade by doing little lines like this right.

You'll see I did it here on the lips but that's a that's a good way to shade when you want to do shading

with comic celled art or sometimes you might even just fill it in completely dark.

So for example I might just completely fill this area and write like that or under the nose I might

have filled that in completely dark.

That's another way of doing shading when it comes to comic book styled character design is to either

just completely shade in the shadows one solid color or do cross hatching.

All right.

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