8/13/2023 0 Comments Easy to draw comic charactersNow on each one experiment with the eyebrows. We'll work with Eyebrows and Mouth as these are the two main communicators of expression.ĭraw a couple of practice circles with Eyes, Nose, Mouth kept the same. We're going to practice and explore some of these and see what expressions we find. Here we see that the face is made up of 4 key ingredients - Eyebrows, Eyes, Nose, Mouth. Remember from lesson 1 that the head is divided into three, half, a quarter and an eighth. I've tried to break this down into a more simple system for understanding expressions. It is sometimes useful to have a mirror handy for this exercise or use a web cam and take a few photos of yourself making some faces. I can't really tell you how to be funny in your cartoons, comic or characters but I can start you off with some techniques for expressing emotions which is how the character communicates to us how they feel. Here's another character for you to Practice. Image 5 and 6 - Shape/Shadow/Shine - Now we add a little detail and shading to give our character shape and form. Image 4 - Line - Now we use a heavier line to draw in the details we want and start dressing our character. Image 3 - Note the face is in the lower half of the head - eyes & ears on the half way line - nose half way between eye line and the chin - mouth half way again. Image 2 - Layout - Here we sketch very lightly the rough details and dressings for the character (I use the term dressings to describe the different way a character can be dressed or the different objects that suggest who or what the character is). Nearly all of our characters will follow these basic proportions (later lessons will explore other proportions). This is our Look phase where we sketch out the general proportions of our character. Image 1 - Look - The first thing we need to sketch very lightly is three circles one on top of the other (or one underneath the other) in a vertical line. I'll be using red ink to represent very light sketching and drawing, blue ink to show lining in and black ink to show outlining Getting started - Lines, Points, Squares, Circles and Triangles Before you get going you may want to warm up and practice your circles use this lesson below to develop your line work and basic shape drawing.
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