All language subtitles for 012 Detail In Your Character Designs.en

In this lecture we're going to be talking about details.

So if you remember on our drawing fundamental pyramid when we're doing character design details are

at the very top so details can be very pretty and they can really polish off your drawing.

But if you don't have your stuff like your line your shape and your form down correctly and have that

looking really good then your details aren't gonna matter that much.

And sometimes students get a little bit confused about what details are and what I mean by that.

So in this lecture we're just going to talk a little bit about that so that you have an understanding

of what I'm referring to and I say details and how you need to leave your details for last.

You don't want to start off by drawing all the details.

You want to leave that for after you draw the lines the shapes and the forms.

All right.

So the first one is going to be textured.

So this is not in necessarily any specific order.

You can add your details in whatever order you want just say no.

So the first one is texture.

Texture is just anything like as you can see in this photograph this would Barak or the texture of fabric

or the roughness of a rock texture of leather anything like that that's going to be texture and that.

And like we talked about before that can have to do with the profile contouring lines of your form and

it can also have to just do with lines and shading and stuff like that.

Next is going to be reflections so reflections are also part of the detail.

And even though you might have to kind of sketch those out at the beginning you really don't want to

worry about things like reflections or the shine of hair and stuff like that until you get towards the

end.

That's going to be later down the road after you draw the main parts of your character design and their

pose and all that good stuff next is going to be costume.

So sometimes you might want to block in certain parts of your costume just to make sure that you get

your composition looking good and you have some beautiful shapes and contrast in there.

But for the most part most parts of the costume and especially the details of the costume are going

to be left for very large.

So things like buttons on the texture of the fabric you might block out the hat but you won't actually

go in there really detail it out until the very end.

Next is going to be hair.

So hair includes things like the eyelashes the eyebrows the actual hair on the head and where you have

hair usually typically you want to wait till the end.

Now that's not to say that you can't block out the main shapes of the hair while you're working out

the structure of your character designs which the structure of it includes the line the shape and the

form but the hair.

You want to wait till the end for the most part especially the details such as the shine of the hair

the individual locks and curls of the hair stuff like that.

You to wait till the end and that includes individual eyelashes and individual hairs in the eyebrows

so that's not you can still block out the eyebrows when you're designing your character.

You just if you're going to draw and individual hairs for the eyebrows you want to wait till the very

end because that's not that important you want to focus more on your structure first.

All right.

Next is gonna be wrinkles.

So things like wrinkles that kind of goes into texture but I just thought I'd make it its own thing

just so you know that wrinkles are something that you want to wait till you into.

So if you have a character that's wrinkles on their face or their body or anything like that you're

gonna want to wait till the end to really add in all those details and shade it and make it look real.

And lastly are going to be your values.

So by values I'm just talking about not necessarily the highlights and shadows although for the most

part you're going to want to wait till the very end.

Add in all your highlights and shadows because that's where things like reflections and texture and

hair shine and all that good stuff comes in.

So but more than just highlights and shadows I mean the overall values.

You don't want to decide what all your values are gonna be right away.

You want to get down your form your character and all that and make sure that they're in a good pose

and telling a good story.

And once you have all that in place then you can decide what the overall values will be.

So right here you can see I have a picture of a hero from Spirited Away and I took out all the color

and so you can see that her hair is darker her skin tone is a little bit lighter.

Her shirt is a little bit darker than her skin tone.

This little ribbon thing going around her shoulders is lighter than her shirt.

And this little band right here around her waist is darker than her shirt.

So making those types of decisions of how light or how dark something is going to be.

So not necessarily the highlights and shadows but the actual value of that part of your character such

as to their hair is it gonna be light air or is it going to be dark hair.

We're gonna talk about that in the next lecture how to make sure that you're choosing good values and

incorporating good value contrast in your character designs.

All right.

So I know that this was kind of theoretical and we didn't really get to do a project in this one but

I just wanted to stress that these are really important.

It's really important that you understand that the details are the icing on the cake but they're just

a small part of the actual drawing of your characters.

They're things that are much more important than just these details.

All right.

Thanks for watching this lecture.

And I will see you guys in the next one.