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OK so now that you know how to do art studies what we want to do is we want to talk about how those

art studies convert into character design.

So once we have this visual library built up in our heads then we can go ahead and we can start drawing

characters.

Now you don't have to have this visual library built up in your head before you start drawing characters

that don't feel like you have to do a bunch of art studies before you start designing characters but

it will help a lot.

And I just want to demonstrate now real quickly how this is done.

So let's say we have our hand here that we just drew and we understand how to draw that hand.

Well what we can do now is we can take that out of our head or we can look at our reference or whatever

we want and we can just kind of stylized it.

So one way we can stylized is by simplifying.

So for example let's say that we want to simplify our drawing so we get rid of all of this complicated

shading increases and stuff like that and we're just going to focus on simple shapes and let's all go

ahead and sterilize it by kind of adding a specific shape to it.

So let's make this hand more square.

So the way we can do this is we can just go ahead and start by drawing a square for the palm of the

hand so rather than just drawing a circle we're going to use a square where we can make that a little

bit more of a rectangle make it a little bit longer and then we to go ahead and we can just go ahead

and block out the fingers.

So we want to just basically make another square that's about the same size and use that as our guide

because our fingers are gonna be as long as the palm of your hand.

Then let's go ahead and let's draw on the thumb.

So we want to just kind of cut this shape here but we want to make it a little bit more rigid so we

can go and just draw a line like this and draw a line like that.

Like this

right.

So we're just kind of squaring that up a little bit more and then for the fingers the tips of them we're

gonna make them nice and square.

So I want to start by first dividing this up into my four fingers.

The pinky there maybe I'll widen these fingers up just a little bit more like that.

Those will be my guidelines and I can just kind of draw those coming straight up like this

perfect and then we want our middle finger to be the longest on our index finger the next longest.

Then a ring finger and then our Pinky then we can go ahead just draw those in like that and we can go

ahead and drawn or risk.

So rest is just gonna come right off the square just like this.

And as you can see this is looking very similar to the study we did but is more stylized so this might

be more of a character's type of hand that might be in something like let's say a Pixar film or something

like that or maybe it's your comic book just want to keep all these fingers nice at Square

and you can see I'm just simplifying it.

So instead of doing all this Jaggi wrinkle working here is doing one sweep of a line right across there

to show the crease of the fingers

to kind of reshape the storm a little bit.

You want to actually bring it down a little bit more I can use my razor to help you raise set out just

a little bit.

I'm going to bring thumb a little bit more down here

so don't ever be afraid to erase things you can always raise as much as you need or if you're doing

this digitally don't ever feel like you can't undo things.

I mean you probably know that you can undo things but don't ever feel limited in how many times you

can undo a line or something like that you can undo things as many times as you need

go ahead and thin this hand out a little bit more of this wrist.

I mean that

I'm going to go ahead and just outline this a little bit more now.

Perfect.

And then we can go ahead and just kind of shaded it.

I'm going to keep this nice and simple to draw and overwrite there Mark out of line right here I'm just

gonna start by shading in this part of the hand like that so I'm just keeping the shading nice and simple

just like my line and shape work gotten shade in this part right here.

Now I know I'm using a red pencil if you don't have one that's fine.

That's not important I just like to switch up the colors of my pencil sometimes when I'm drawing so

I don't don't think that that's a really important part of this drawing.

I'm drawing another over a third.

Drawing coming off like this shade that in

right perfect so there we go.

There's more of a stylized hand now.

It's nice and square.

It's a little bit more interesting looking.

So this is how we would take something like an art study or something out of our visual library and

we would convert that into part of our stylized character design.

So what I want you to do now is I want you to go ahead and take your reference photo that you found

for your other art study that I told you to do in the last lecture.

I want to take that art study and I want you to redraw it but kind of try to stylized it and simplify

it.

Now if it doesn't look perfect that's okay because I know that we're we're kind of getting into waters

that you don't really understand how to do yet.

But I want you.

I like to introduce my students into these areas that are a little bit difficult for them because I

want them to start really thinking and understanding this stuff on their own.

So try to simplify your reference photo or study and then try to draw a little bit more stylized.

So if you want you can copy me just to make it easier if you do so just copy my style of just kind of

turning things into more square and rigid shapes and see what you can come up with.

And go ahead and post that to the Q and A section of the course.

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