All language subtitles for 043 Drawing The Neck Shoulders From Scratch.en

In this lecture we're gonna be talking about how to draw the neck and the shoulders but really go in-depth

with it.

So the first thing to understand is let's go over the neck so the neck attaches to the head and it's

basically a cylinder.

So if you don't have to draw a cylinder it's let's say that you're looking at it from kind of a side

view but a little bit of a top down view.

It's going to look something like this.

You gonna draw an oval or an ellipse like that and then just have a line coming down two lines from

each side and then you're basically going to copy this right here you're gonna copy it down here so

I'll just draw it lightly just to kind of show you if you could see through it you would see the bottom

surface which would look like that but we're just gonna draw it lightly and then use it as a guide.

So then we can just kind of draw this curve here like that

right.

And so if you were to be drawing this and you didn't want to draw this a light outline down here all

you'd have to do is just kind of mimic this curve right here and you just mimic that right down there.

So that's a basic cylinder and you can see it from all kinds of different angles so let's try a different

angle.

Let's say that you're drawing somebody and you're kind of looking at a more of a top down do you.

Well then the sphere you might see a little bit more of the top surface of that oval or that ellipse

might not be as thin or as squash or it might look something more like that.

Maybe this neck is sort of angled like that so that we can just copy that curve right there.

We're going to copy right down here

just like that.

So there's two simple spheres that's how you draw spheres but the neck is basically a sphere.

It's a it's a it's a long skinny sphere and it's not too long skinny so let's just go ahead and let's

draw an example.

So if we're looking at the neck from the side or kind of a side view it's going to look like this.

So in a draw like this and it's going to be about

this long.

So I'd like to think of it kind of about one and a half the length of the width of the neck Mitt goes

down into the actual body.

So it doesn't just stop at the top of the shoulders it goes down into the body.

All right.

So there is a neck that's about how long it should look from the side.

Now another thing you'll notice is that I drew this angled forward and that's because the neck is actually

angled forward.

So you're not going to ever draw a neck just straight up and down like this.

And if you do you're going to find that it looks kind of weird.

So you always want to make sure that you draw that neck angled forward just a little bit.

So this might be angled a little bit too much just depends on your character.

We always want that neck angled forward.

So when you draw that cylinder make sure it's just tilted.

The next thing I want you to understand is that the spine or the vertebrae in the neck is curved.

So not only is this going to be angled forward it's going to be slightly curved.

So it's gonna be curved back.

So if the front of the faces out here we're going to curve it in that direction.

So let's redraw the cylinder but let's add a curve to it.

So go ahead and just draw the top surface like that.

And then this sandwich is going to add a curve to it.

So rather than just using straight lines and maybe I'll actually make this angle just a little bit less

we'll just curve it just like that.

All right.

So remember that we want to angle it forward.

And also remember that the neck is curved.

Another thing to take note of is that at the top of the neck where the head attaches generally this

is gonna be taper just a tiny bit.

So that just means that it's gonna get smaller up towards the top.

Now you don't always have to do this but sometimes you can tapered off towards the top.

So this might also be tapered.

All right.

Great.

So let's go ahead and let's draw a head attached to a neck.

So I'm gonna go ahead and just draw kind of a simple Loomis head.

We're gonna draw this from the back so we can get a different angle of the neck so I can just go ahead

and draw in the side of the head.

Go ahead and add that side playing like this

kind of sketch it.

You're there.

All right.

Great.

I could even shade in the side of the head just kind of give it a little bit more form and definition

and we got the bottom of the jar right there.

All right.

So now we want to go ahead and attach the neck so the neck is gonna kind of attach just a little bit

below the bottom of that side plain.

They're kind of sketched out around shape like that around line.

And then we can just kind of have that coming right off.

So we want it to kind of curve back if you remember we want to add that curve in there.

Now we can go ahead and sketch in the bottom surface of that cylinder

just like that.

And there you go attaching the neck is as simple as that but there's a little bit more to the neck there's

a little bit more definition and we have the collarbone that ties into the neck and the shoulder.

So let's go ahead and let's start learning how to draw back.

So I to go ahead and draw new head here

and this is going to be kind of a three quarters view of the Loomis head

so we're going to roughly sketch this and I'm not going to spend a lot of time making sure that it's

perfect or anything like that.

We just want the idea of the Loomis head

because this is about drawing neck not necessarily the head.

All right.

So we have that nice and roughly sketched in there.

So let's go ahead and let's sketch out the cylinder so coming right off kind of the back of the head

like this I'm going to have just a slightly angled and curved neck coming off like that the other piece

coming off like this maybe could add a little bit more of the back of the head right there

then we'd go ahead and complete the cylinder like that.

So there we go there is our cylinder neck coming off next.

We want to do is at the bottom right here the bottom of our cylinder.

That's where the part of the collarbone that dips down like this going to draw that end.

So it's going to be like that then I like to kind of mark out the color bones just kind of slightly

curved lines that angle upwards.

Just just the tiniest bit so not too much so give it a little bit of curve and angled upwards right.

Next we can go ahead and we can draw the upper shoulder muscles and or the back muscles.

So it's basically just going to come right off the neck like this and then curved down like that right

there just that smooth S curve coming off and will do the same thing for the other side.

It's gonna get a little bit more squashed because we're seeing it on the other side of this three quarters

view.

It's just something like that.

So now you can see that that's really starting to resemble something that looks accurately like a human's

neck and shoulders.

Next we get some muscles and tendons that come down from the head down into this middle part of the

collarbone.

So let's go ahead and sketch that and so I usually just like to do a line like this going down into

that area and another one over here.

But I won't get too detailed with it.

Most of time your character designs are going to be pretty simplified so we're not going to get too

much into anatomy but I like to mark those out just so I have an understanding that those muscles are

there and just for your understanding this Back Muscle kind of wraps around the neck here and kind of

comes across like this I'll just kind of draw those lines in to kind of represent that just like that.

We also get the Adam's apple so if it's a female the Adam's apple is not going to be very prominent

but if it's a male we kind of get an Adam's apple right.

There's just kind of draw a line like that to represent that.

All right great.

Go ahead and talking in this head a little bit more

all right.

So there we go.

So we start off with the cylinder.

Then we add the lines for the back muscles that run into the shoulders and the shoulders just kind of

curve around like that.

We'll get to the shoulders here in a second and then at the bottom of our cylinder is where we're going

to start right in the center.

So if we were to continue the center line down and go underneath the bottom of the jaw and then come

down right there through the center of the neck so then we want to put that right there in the center

of the neck at the bottom and then from there that little dipped line we want to do two slightly curved

angled upward lines going across for the collar bones to represent where those are gonna be.

All right.

So what if we want to start adding shoulders and while shoulders are very simple we're just going to

think of the shoulders as sort of round movable type objects and these shoulders should actually be

a little bit wider so when go ahead and extend that out just a little bit more that so the shoulders

we're just gonna place an oval about that size.

So the collarbone touches right at the top of that Oval.

Do the same thing on the other side sometimes you can think of them as circles oval circles either one

but they're around sort of shape just like that.

All right.

So let's talk a little bit more in-depth about the shoulders so let's go ahead and draw a straight on

view of a person with the Loomis head.

So go ahead and just kind of sketch out circle the jaw.

We'll make that a little bit bigger for you guys to see.

All right.

Great.

So once you have your Loomis had finished then we can go ahead and start drawing Nick.

So just like when we drew the Loomis head before we're just gonna start by drawing in the lines now

we're not going to see a curved or an angle back line with this just because reviewing it from the front

view so we can just kind of draw a line that just kind of comes down straight down and then turns into

the bottom of our cylinder like that.

And then if you remember the next thing we want to do is you want to draw this little dip right here

for the collarbone so it just starts at the bottom of this.

Right in the center just like that.

And then we can do these slightly curved and angled upwards collarbone lines

perfect.

Then let's go ahead and let's draw the back muscles coming off the neck

now on females.

These back muscles are gonna be less prominent.

So on a male the neck is gonna be thicker.

And these back muscles will be a lot bigger on a female.

You're gonna tend to want to make them just a little bit smaller maybe less angled upwards and you're

going to want to make the neck thinner.

All right great.

Now let's gain just a little bit more understanding about the shoulders.

So if you remember we can draw the shoulders and just by kind of drawing a simple oval like that

and that can be used as the base for our lightning bolt that we drew before.

So you can see that we can kind of come around like that for the first curved line and then back up.

And so just so you understand that's how that car fits onto that.

Now depending on how big the shoulders are you might want to make these a little bit bigger.

You might want them to protrude out a little bit so they might pop up just a little bit more so kind

of draw those in popping up a little bit more so we kind of get a bump right there and right there.

All right.

So once we have those kind of sketched in there just you have a little bit more understanding the shoulder

muscle comes down curves around like this and then it goes a little bit further than just this oval

shape but kind of comes down into a point like that because it's a muscle that wraps around it's a big

round muscle that wraps around the arm or the bomb and then this is going to basically just come up

into the collarbone like that.

So we kind of get a muscle just going across like that.

Same on this side.

Now like I said I'm not going to get too much into anatomy but just you have a decent understanding

of what's going on with the shoulder muscle

so that's just gonna attach right in to the collarbone like that

now we can go ahead and also sketch in these muscles on the neck.

It's coming right down to the center there.

You can give them an Adam's apple

just like that

had these lines coming across here just kind of represent the surface of those muscles

all right.

Excellent.

So there you go.

There's the basic gist of how to draw the neck and the back muscles right there and the shoulders.

Now the next lectures we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna learn how to draw these in different poses

because as people move this structure is gonna change a little bit.

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