Hello hello my fellow art nerds and welcome to this not quite speed paint :)
My name is Jessie, one of Winged Canvas' cartooning / anime instructors and today
I'll be drawing some of the pets of our Winged Canvas team as Animal Crossing
villagers. My horrible crippling obsession with the
game has been going strong since the game's release on March 20th
with a daily play streak and 470 plus hours clocked into the game.
Eventually I rope some of my other co-workers into this purgatory, filled to
the brim with cute outfits and talking animals --
so I figured doing an animal crossing themed not quite speed paint was only
appropriate. Without any further ado, let's get
arting. The first pet I'll be illustrating is none other than the
studio's ladyboss, Pongo. Pongo is a sweet sassy little pup so
taking that into account when coming up with her villager design and character
personality was crucial. Deciding between either Pongo or
Sadie, or other studio dog was a tricky choice.
But in the end I figured I'd have a few more ideas when it came to drawing Pongo
like giving her the career jacket that i gave to Whitney in game. I highly
recommend giving it to Whitney if you have her by the way -- she absolutely kills
that look. While I am a clean sketch artist where I
kind of like to clean up my sketches -- for no particular reason,
that's something that you don't need to do and shouldn't really focus on,
As long as your sketch is clear enough for you to create a finished piece from,
that's good enough most of the time because
Animal Crossing's cutesy look is such a simple style anyway. It wasn't too big of
a loss to clean up the sketch a little more
when drawing.
The main issue came across when figuring out how to draw Pongo's head to match
the dog design in Animal Crossing. While Pongo's head is more of like a
sideways lima bean, the dogs in Animal Crossing are more of
a vertical lima bean -- if that makes any sense..
In the end, I decided that I didn't want to spend too long getting
frustrated over something that's not really that big of a deal, so I settled
on giving her some extra fur bits on her ears and face,
making her tail extra fluffy :) Kind of like the anteaters in Animal Crossing
even though the dogs usually just have like a
little line, but that's okay Pongo's tail is very fluffy. I didn't
want to take away her fluff from her. The only dog villager that I have on my
island is Lucky because I'm all for that creepy -ish
villager aesthetic -- don't let this style fool you. I can
do some creepy stuff too. It sounds like I'm trying to convince you, but I
promise I can.. I have Whitney who I got by
accident. Once when I put up my first
plot of land to just sell to anybody and I was like all right I'll just kind of
leave this here and then overnight.. The new villager comes in and I'm
like "Oh who's Whitney?" and I research her and that
could have ended up a lot worse than how it did.
I have Whitney who I guess is like a dog since she's
a wolf but like honestly, none of the other villager
dogs interest me (the normal ones). I know that
there's the cute dog NPCs like Isabelle and Harriet
but you don't really interact with them that much. I'm talking more
about the villagers that actually live on the island --
I don't care what any of you think. I know that
Goldie and Cookie are really popular and like okay.. yeah..
they're kind of cute but I don't think they're that cute.. You know
what I mean? They're not barreled levels of no thank you, but
they're not like Marina or Raymond levels of desirable.
None of you can fight me on Raymond by the way. I spent two days
trying to get him, okay? And I did. So you can't get
me for that. With Pongo's sassy personality, I figured that giving her
the sisterly personality trait was only right. Having her in the studio
family for so long, I'm giving her the catchphrase: "Artsy" --
also only felt like the right thing to do. And with that, we have Pongo
finished! As our first pet Animal Crossing
villager!
The second pet that I illustrated was lovely Helvetica, or Helvey for short.
Helvey is a sweet little angel who's super well behaved and chill, so again
taking that into account for her design was necessary.
The best thing about the Animal Crossing style I think anyway is how simple it is
to learn and how simple it is to draw. All the animals and people are the
same just with varying attributes or they're all re-skins of each other.
If you think about it, if you take like Raymond and Bob,
they're both cats. If you can draw the body of the
Animal Crossing cat, you can probably draw all of the Animal Crossing cats
without issue because really it's all like.. some of
them are different colors, some of them have hair or whatever. It's really
not that big of a difference. If you want to
stay very true to the Animal Crossing
style, then for like the people you have
their eyes and clothes and hair and you know, whatever.
But again, they all have the same oval head and circular hands.
Imagine just having Lego hands -- the
letter c, but instead of spheres.. Speaking of the circular hands,
that's a really good point. The bane of a ton of artists is
jar hands. Eliminating the fingers
when drawing a hand is an excellent solution.
The feet are the same deal too. If you're wondering -- no toes in sight
they have to worry about. You know how a lot of
artists they'll take the hands and they'll go like: "Oh
man, I don't feel like drawing hands today so I'll put them behind the back
or they'll put them in pockets". Both
work! I think the only issue I run
into when I draw a certain Animal Crossing character
is my need for the symmetry in certain characters. For instance, I
used the symmetry tool for Helvi when drawing her face because of
her super super symmetrical design. Just drawing one side after the other
wasn't gonna cut it for me because my perfectionism knows no bounds --
if this eye is off by the slightest bit, I'm like
"Nah, that's not happening..." So I'm gonna have to
fix that for myself.
I think out of all of the villager personalities, smug and normal
and sisterly are my three favorites. I have two normals on my island. I
have Vesta and Coco and then two smugs -- I have Zell and
Raymond. I only have one sisterly who is
Canberra but I do think that her personality
resonates the most with me. I have to love it.
Speaking of Canberra, I know that she's considered
an ugly villager or whatever. She was one of my
immediates. I started with a jock and a sisterly earlier --
uchi villager. And those were my two starters that was
Canberra and Iggly. I initially didn't
like her that much, but eventually, she grew
on me. I start to get to know her more and she
turned out to be pretty cool. My other two ugly
villagers Iggly and Patty -- they're not very...
popular or whatever. I didn't really
like them that much either initially, but again,
they also grew on me as time went on.
Patty is slowly starting to irritate me though so I might switch her
out for someone eventually. Moral of the story is that your
ugly villagers are probably nice. You just have to get to know them
like with a lot of people. Then again, I did
kind of use the frank and ribot as standards to get Raymond, but that's
another story for another video. Maybe I'll talk about that one day.
If I ever do end up drawing Raymond for this channel, I'll probably tell that
story. With Helvi's sweet personality, I
decided to give her a sweet personality type as well! So normal only seemed
fitting in this case. Her catchphrase is "key-paw" is in
reference to keypad since she's a cat and her name is a font
type and I am the most creative individual ever :)
The final pet I'll be illustrating is the wonderful Pichu. As a bird owner
myself, I know the screechy sassiness that comes with birds
so of course I'll take that into account while coming up with design.
Bird villagers are funky because a lot of them are pretty boring I think but I
think my three favorites are Jacques, Anchovy and
Jitters. Definitely not popular...
Jacques I recently started like because I realized he looked a lot like
one of my own characters. I have to resonate with that, you know what I mean?
Anchovy I like for no real reason other than how dumb he
looks and also his name.. like why anchovy? That's.. that's a fish isn't
it? It's like.. you put on pizza..
I don't know why I like it. I think I like him for no real
reason other than like how dumb he looks. The eyebrows man -- it looks like
sensor bars. If he was a human character he
looks like his name would be Little Timmy
and I can't hate that. He looks like the little kid that you see
on the street he tells you how many Youtube followers he has or something --
I don't know. Even though he hasn't used Youtube for
more than like a year. Jitters I love
for no real reason other than he looks like he lives off of
five hour energies and espresso shots. I completely vibe with that -- I
feel that entirely. I am still in college, I am
still studying video game art and the amount of almost sleepless
nights I have gotten is countless and the fact
that Nintendo gave him a name like
Jitters means that all of his sleepless,
caffeinated glory was 100% intentional and that's peak
character design -- I can't fault that.
If you haven't noticed yet, I absolutely love to do line art.
Contrary to popular artist consensus, a lot of people ask me like why I like
to do line art and I think it's just how
mindless and calming it is to me. I've stopped really needing to focus
while I do line art. It's just kind of me
letting the back of my brain take over my senses. For
more of my detailed work, I spend a lot of time on the line work
but I don't really mind too much because it's like you can kind of see me having
a little more fun with the line work while drawing Pichu.
Especially with more details on his flight jacket.
My favorite type of line art to do is generally super bold and thick.
I used to do all my line art super super good with little to no
line variation but as I as I got older, I started to love doing super
bold line art more and more. You can do whatever kind of line art you want.
I'm not gonna tell you what not to do.
For me personally, I really love the
super cartoony, super bold and strong personality and the
life you can give something with like the really thick,
very bold line work. Finishing it off with
his personality type and catchphrase, I was told that Pichu would
probably be a cranky type and having a catchphrase that resembles the screechy
glory that only comes with parakeets and cockatiels.
And with that, that's all the pet illustrations!! I had a lot of fun
illustrating these and I hope you like them too :)
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