All language subtitles for 021 How To Warmup.en

OK so when we're doing character designs really any type of drawing but especially character designs

we want to make sure that we warm up.

So just like an athlete or just like a singer before we do our craft we want to make sure that we're

nice and warmed up.

And when it comes to drawing there's their own specific things that we need to warm up.

So for example we want to warm up and make sure that our hand and eye coordination are really up to

par and ready to go when we start designing your characters.

So you don't just want to go straight into just drawing characters you want to draw a bunch of characters

or a bunch of studies or whatever it's gonna be so that you're nice and warmed up.

Now you don't have to take too much time to do this.

You generally want to take about 10 to 20 minutes to warm up.

So once you sit down to design your character you want to take about let's say at least 10 minutes and

just doodle around or try Drawing from reference.

There was a couple of different things you can do to warm up but basically any type of drawing is considered

warming up.

So even those lines were during the last lecture that the circles and the ellipses and the straight

and the curved lines all those are going to be a good way to warm up.

And like I said one way we can warm up is by looking at reference so for example it could be anything

even if you're drawing characters taking your eraser segment in front of you and just drawing what you

see.

With that eraser

that's a warm up right there and it's just quick and simple.

It's just a start getting your hand nice and warmed up getting your eye coordination warmed up.

And your observational skills.

Another thing that we can do to warm up is we can just draw from our imagination so we can just warm

up by just doodling things we can doodle something that looks terrible so if we want to we could just

just draw some sort of a character here

or something like that.

Like it's it's not the worst some world but it's also not that appealing.

So we can do doodles like that or we can even do things that we really like.

So we could try doodling some really nice character designs but these wouldn't be final character designs

at all.

We're just really trying to warm up the hand eye coordination

and also the muscles in her hands.

So there's some character warm ups there just straight out of my imagination.

Now yours might not look this good especially if you haven't drawn a lot of characters.

And this one even look that good.

I'm just I just don't want you to feel bad if your characters come out looking funny.

Like if you're drawing upside down sevens for their nose that's completely fine for these warmups especially

you don't have to draw these characters so you can just draw the worst character designs you've drawn

before.

But if you're if you're kind of skilled it doesn't really matter.

We're just trying to draw anything so we can warm up another reason for warming up is that we want to

get all of our bad drawings out at the beginning.

So that's not to say that once we get to the last few drawings that they can't be kind of bad or whatever.

It's just we want to really kind of get our bad drawing down and so we don't want to get super focused

or use a bunch of our willpower and just like make a really nice drawing in our warmup we're not really

focused on that.

We're just trying to get some lines and shapes out and some ideas out.

Which brings me to another point which is when we warm up we want to also be warming up our imaginations.

So we're just kind of trying to get some bad ideas out maybe some good ideas and we're not necessarily

doing concept sketches but we're just trying to warm our brain up.

Warmer hands up in our eye coordination.

That's what warming up is all about when you're warming up.

This is when you can make mistakes and you don't feel bad at all.

You have to fix it.

So for example if I draw a character like this

there's one I would say draw the other eye and it's not shaped right.

Something like that doesn't look right.

That's okay.

I'm not going to go back and fix that.

I'm warming up.

I'm just trying to get those bad drawings out just get my hands moving and getting stuff down on paper.

And one of the biggest reasons why we warm up to is because putting the line down on a blank piece paper

can be one of the scariest things when it comes to drawing.

It's even scary for me.

You don't know how it's going to turn out or anything like that.

So by warming up you just set your mind up as you start that you can make mistakes and you can draw

bad drawings in your warmup and it's totally fine and that way you just you just jump right into it

you start drawing and it warms you up.

So then when you're ready to go to another blank piece of paper you're ready to go and you can just

start doing your concept sketches or your character designs or whatever it is that you're drawing.

But it's really important that we warm up I always warm up especially in character designs.

And one last thing that you can do to warm up with is you can warm up by drawing other artists artwork.

Now you're not going to keep these and we will keep them but you're not going to say that they're your

own.

So you're not going to post these online or anything and say that they're yours.

You want to make sure that you keep this yourself.

But this is just a way that you can one start to gather and understand somebody's style of character

design but also you can start building up that visual library and building up your hand eye coordination.

So drawing and copying other artists character designs is a great way to warm up.

So just remember that you always want to warm up for about 10 minutes before you start doing character

designs and 20 minutes is even better.

Thanks for watching this lecture and I'll see you guys in the next 1.