(wind whipping)
- I am Game Girl.
- Hi, I'm Ant Blades,
and I'm the creator of It's Pony.
Today, I'm going to take you through
how to draw Annie.
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- I'm helping.
Need the blue one?
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- Annie is made up of-
she has a sort of an upturned bell for a head.
It's kind of round at the bottom
and almost flat at the top.
And then underneath,
a triangular body.
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- It comes down to about here.
And then some strong legs that come down underneath.
Nice straight, strong legs holding her up.
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- And then there's some boots down at the bottom.
So, I'm just going to start.
I mean, she, she's-
obviously, I'm drawing her quite sketchy in the beginning,
and then afterwards, I'll do a darker line over the top.
- This'll be the best project ever, you'll see!
- So her head is, um, it's kind of a round circle here,
really, underneath.
And then it's straight at the sides,
up to a sort of flat top.
And then, if you're looking at this circle,
the nose is almost in the middle,
as are the ears.
And the ears are kind of in the middle of that circle,
as well.
Then the eyes.
Sit up quite high.
So, most of the characters in It's Pony,
the eyes, that bit are new, I suppose,
they're kind of higher than they-
the sort of style has quite high eyes
and pretty heavy eyebrows.
- All I have to do is focus.
- And her smile.
And- and then she has her hair coming up here.
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And then her sort of tufts of hair
that come out at the top.
The tuft of hair at the back has about,
I don't know, six or seven of these boulders.
And the little connecting bit is sort of a V here
that connects her head to, um, the hair at the back.
A bit here as well, but we're kind of losing that as well,
just to give her eyes a bit more space.
So that, when we've got her eyebrows,
they will sit here, and they just have a bit more space
to show some emotions.
- [Video Game Narrator] Game over!
- Put some eyes in here, some pupils in.
Add in some freckles, as well.
And she has a sort of line of shade here, as well,
that goes out the back.
So that kind of drops down the back of that hair,
just to make it feel like it's further back.
And then, she has these tiny little dashes as well,
that go throughout.
That's just to make it feel
like how she's a little bit rougher,
and how there's some hair there,
and a few little errant strands, as well,
that kind of stick out here.
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- At the bottom of her shirt,
she has a couple little bumps here.
They just kind of show
where the shirt is kind of folded a little bit.
Then, she has a skirt that comes down,
and this still follows the line of the shirt.
She has her pockets down here.
And she has these little lines to show
that it's kind of like a jean skirt.
And we give her these strong legs underneath.
And it just feels like she's got nice, straight legs
that really push up to the body.
It just gives her some weight,
and just feels a bit more dynamic, I think.
Then, the horseshoe shape on her shirt.
I'm gonna rub out a bit down here.
So her arms, following down from the shoulders,
and they drop down here,
and, again, another thing is with this show,
is their arms are normally pretty long, actually.
They tend to have pretty long arms,
most of these characters.
And Annie's no exception.
So she has her arms drop down here,
and they're pretty straight.
But up here, she has a sleeve,
and these sleeve pokes out slightly from the rest,
as it does on the other side.
So it just- just that bit of material
is poking out a bit more.
And then we have those stripes that go down,
and there's about-
I don't know, I think there's-
I'll go over with some dark
and I'll put a bit more shadow on
and I'll darken it up with the dark one.
So, I'll knock that back.
So, one of the other things we tried with It's Pony
is we want it to feel almost like they're huggable,
and that hand-drawn, homemade feel to it
helps give it that feel.
So, what we tend to do is,
we'll have thinner lines on top of everything,
and then thicker at the bottom.
And that just gives it a feeling of depth.
Same with her eyes, they'll be a bit thinner up top
and a bit thick at the bottom.
And we carry that through with everything.
So the ear, thin on top, and then thick at the bottom.
Inner thicker...
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- And the neck, we normally have a little line of shadow
underneath.
Helps it to- helps it push the head forward a bit.
Having that bit of shadow makes you feel like
the head is actually on top.
And the shoulders coming down...
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- Again, just to show that the skirt
is on top and the legs are underneath,
we have a line of shadow that kind of-
the skirt is dropping on those legs.
And her boots, and they have these tiny-
she has quite small toes.
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- Sticking out the side, and then this little lines
across the top of those boots.
Oh, let's not forget the horseshoe
in the middle of her tee-shirt.
- Annie!
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- And that's how you draw Annie.
I hope that's been helpful,
and I look forward to doing the next one.
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