All language subtitles for 028 Refining Your Character Drawing In 3 Steps.en

All right.

In this lecture we're going to be talking about how to refine our character designs.

So how do we take an idea of a character and slowly draw that and refine it until we come to our final

character design.

Well we've kind of already done it in this course with a few projects and you've kind of seen this process

but we're just gonna do a review of it.

So you know exactly what it is.

And also we're going to be using this throughout the rest of this course to design and draw our characters.

So there's kind of three parts to refining your character.

Now you could whittle this down to two or you can make it even more than three you can make it four

or five.

It just depends on how many rough versions you want to do.

But if you remember a rough is basically just the under drawing that we draw for our character design

it's what we use as a guide and to really help us understand where the design is going so that then

when we go in with our darker pencil it's kind of a it's a good base to work off of.

So we have our rough number one the first rough that we do.

We're going to focus on fundamentals.

So we're focusing on things like line shape form pose perspective all that good stuff we're trying to

make sure that all of that looks good.

And we have a really good structure for our character design because if that doesn't look good like

I said that's the foundation and if it doesn't look good.

Your character design will fall apart.

We're also focusing on designs or focusing on things like composition we're focusing on things like

how do the shapes look together.

Stuff like that that we're going to focus on staying light and loose so drawing your rough your first

rough is all about seeing lights.

You don't want to push too hard and you want to stay nice and loose it can look really bad sometimes.

Sometimes your first draft will look terrible and it won't look very good but that's what the whole

refining process is about is refining it to a very good looking drawing.

So let me kind of just show you an example.

So come over here into this other layer that I have or this other canvas and just go ahead and scrub

brush and we could just do our first rough for character which just shapes we could just kind of do

circles like that or maybe we'll kind of shape that out to kind of an egg shape maybe add some ovals

four legs maybe some arms right.

So it's super super rough super messy.

It can be incredibly messy and that's the whole purpose of the rough is to really just loosen up because

if you're too uptight you're not going to come out with very good ideas or you might be too scared to

put some marks down on the paper.

You just want to stay loose and keep it rough because also another thing is that when you do it this

way you don't feel bad if you redraw.

So like if I want to change something by this character maybe make their head a little bit smaller

and bring it down more.

I don't feel bad about redrawing that because it was so easy to draw the first time right.

Or maybe we're doing a character like this.

There's this head just kind of sketch out where his neck might be his ear

nose

right.

And so I'm just plain basically what shapes right now.

Shapes and form.

It just kind of making sure that I'm getting that all right.

And it's just messy.

That's that's really what the Ruff is all about staying messy making sure that you're starting to get

those shapes those forms in correctly and just keeping it very light and very loose.

All right next.

So after the rough.

Now we're going to go ahead and move on to the rough drawing number two.

Now typically I like to stay on the same drawing from a rough drawing number two.

And that's why I'll draw really lightly for my first rough so my draw something like the cylinder for

the head and the jaw line and the neck and stuff like that and I'll rough that stuff into my first phase

and then in my second phase of the rough that will be considered my rough too if you wanted to you could

just move on to another piece of paper and redraw what you have for your first rough.

But I'd like to just draw on top of it.

So I just draw lightly for the rough one and then the rough two I just push a little bit harder and

typically I'll use a blue or colored pencil for my first two roughs.

So that way it stands out from my final drawing.

So when it comes to the rough number two we want to focus on the design.

So we still want to focus on the design like we did in rough number one.

We want to focus on the composition the shapes the shape language stuff like that but we can also start

focusing more on things like the design of the costume the design of the hair stuff like that.

We also want to focus on things like detail.

So that's going to be textures hair so I guess would fall into that.

The little details on the costume Sew buttons stuff like that.

Facial expressions the size of the eyes all that good stuff.

All that is going to be in the rough phase number two and we want to start tightening up our drawing

so we don't want to as loose as we had it before so like this one is very loose.

We'd want to start going in there and tightening these lines up and just making them a little bit more

purposeful.

And then we want to be more methodical so the first part we're being methodical but we're just being

very light and loose we're just trying all kinds of different things and experimenting in the rough

phase number two we want to be more methodical think about where we want eyes to be placed what's the

form of those eyes what's the form of the lips what kind of character are they why are they wearing

this costume stuff like that we just want to be more methodical than we might be in the rough phase

number one.

So after we have that all done then we can go ahead and move on to our final drawing.

So a final drawing is going to look very similar to the rough number two but we're going to finalize

all those lines so we're going to refine slash changed the details.

So there's something about the eye for example that you did in your rough number two then you can go

ahead and change it at this point with your darker pencil.

So we could just go ahead and let's say change the shape of the eye or the length of the eyelash or

we could change the placement of part of the costume or we could slightly change the shape of the hairstyle

or add more detail and stuff like that.

So we're going to change things like that in this phase.

We're going to be using a darker pencil like I said or if you're working in something like Photoshop

digitally then you're going to be adding a new layer on top of this and you're gonna want to draw your

final drawing on a new layer.

And then we also want to finalize the story.

So throughout this entire process we want to be thinking about the story and we want to slowly build

that story up as we go through these different drawing phases.

And once we get to the final that's where we need to finalize that story.

So the costume the facial expression all of every aspect of the character needs to be finalized and

all of it needs to help tell the story of that character.

And then lastly we want to really clean up and tighten the lines so we don't just want really loose

lines like we have here we want to make sure that they're nice and cleaned up in tight lines and then

that will basically bring us to the end of our drawing.

So this is the very simple step by step process we want to use in order to draw characters.

Now I know that that's kind of oversimplifying it and obviously there's a lot more that we're going

to learn about and each one of these steps.

But for now I just want you to keep in mind that we basically want to start out really rough and then

refine that rough.

And then finally come in with a darker pencil and darken and all that detail finalize everything and

finish up the story of that character.

All right.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

If you have any questions about this go ahead and post it to the Q and A section of the course and either

me or my teacher assistant will answer it.

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