- Hi everyone I'm Stephen.
I'm an artist at Disney's
Art of Animation Resort in Florida.
Here in the resort lobby, seven days a week,
an artist teaches guest how to draw characters
from some of your favorite films.
You're welcome to come join in
and you don't even need to be staying here at the resort.
I'm a big fan of 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
So today, let's draw one
of the Maroon Cartoon's biggest stars, Roger Rabbit.
We'll draw these first initial shapes very lightly
and draw them again later and make them a little bolder.
So the first shape is going to be a really skinny egg shape.
Now we're going to add what we call
access lines or guidelines.
So draw a line that goes up and down right in the middle.
After that, draw a horizontal guide line.
And these guidelines will help us keep the proportions
to Roger's head correct.
We're going to draw almost like a hot dog shape.
Now this hot dog shape
will eventually be Roger's cheek lines.
His ears are way out there.
So let's draw a couple ovals,
just above Roger's head.
One to the left.
And on the right one,
let's put that one a little bit more upwards.
We're going to connect the tips of Roger's ears
to the actual head shape.
In order to do this, draw a couple of big curve lines
that go from the tips of the ears
on over to the main part of the head.
Now we can see he looks a lot like a rabbit,
but soon he'll look like Roger.
Roger's nose is almost like a really rounded triangle
and we're going to stick this
right about where the crosshairs are
in our construction shapes.
Inside the nose, we're going to draw in a really skinny oval
to act as almost like a highlight mark for Roger's nose.
At the top of the nose,
we're going to draw a small curve.
For the top part of the mouth,
let's just trace over the bottom half
of our really skinny egg shape.
So we're going to dip down and swoop right back on up
to form almost like a really wide letter U.
On each side of that letter U,
draw two little quarter circles that curve on up.
Then we can do the ends of the mouth
by drawing a big curve line that jets on over.
For the bottom part of the mouth,
we're going to curve on down
just beneath our construction shape
and again swoop right back on up on the opposite side.
Inside the mouth, let's sketch out his single tooth,
because Roger only has one small tooth
that's actually going to be just to the right
of our center line.
Also inside his mouth,
we're going to draw a couple overlapping curves
for Roger's tongue.
And for Roger's jawline, we're going to draw a similar shape
that we did for the bottom part of the mouth,
only a little bit lower.
Now we're going to draw Roger's eyes.
And if you've ever noticed they're not even.
So we'll start with the left eye,
and that one's going to cross over the centered guideline,
curve up and then curve on down.
At the very bottom part
I'm going to add a little curve line
just to act as a little more accent mark
for the bottom portion of Roger's eye.
When we draw the other one,
we're going to tuck the edge of it behind the left eye.
So curve up a little bit and curve right on down
to the top crease of the nose.
Once you have the basic eye shapes complete,
we're going to thicken up the top portion of the eyeballs,
just to give a little bit of hint
at some eyelashes for Roger.
For the inside part of the eye,
we have to draw the iris and the pupil.
Let's start off by drawing a simple circle
on each side of the eyeball.
If you want, you can actually offset them
just to add a little bit more personality
to Roger's character.
Inside the iris, draw another small circle
to act as a highlight mark for his eyes
and also draw in the pupil or the dark part of the eye.
Now that we have Roger's face done,
let's start refining his head shape.
Start this off by drawing really long upside down letter J.
And let's mirror that on the other side.
With the sides of Roger's head done,
let's start sketching out his fuzzy checks.
The easiest way to draw in hair and fur
is just to drawing a bunch of upside down letter Vs
or overlapping lines.
Then once you've got your way around most of the check line,
we're going to curve this on down,
right straight over to his jaw.
And we'll do this to the other side.
So again, curve on up
and work our way around
and finally curve it right on down to the jawline.
Then to complete the main bottom half of Roger's head,
let's draw in his eyebrows.
Draw in another upside down letter J,
and draw another curve that connects both ends together.
Before we get to the ears,
let's draw a big poof of hair that's right between them.
First draw a little curve line
that connects both the upside down letter Js together
and same principle as we did for his fuzzy cheeks.
We're going to draw in his big poofy, fuzzy hair.
Once we have the poof flipped over,
we're gonna curve back on down
and connect it back to the head.
Maybe add a couple little detail curves
from the center points of the hair,
and the poof is done.
Let's move on to Roger's ears.
As we work our way around the ears,
don't forget to add a bunch of fur and fuzz
and more details to the ears.
Then kind of curve it on over.
Then we'll move onto the rest of his ear.
Once we're near the tip of the ear,
we're going to draw a really crooked letter C.
We'll do some more overlapping lines
to give a hint at really how fuzzy Roger's ears are.
Then draw the inner part of Roger's ear.
Again, adding more and more fuzz,
as you work your way around.
With the left ear done,
the right one will be a little bit easier
because it's more straight on.
Once you reach the poof of hair,
we're going to imagine the ear line coming behind that poof
and continuing on down to the actual head shape.
With the outside part of the ear done,
let's start sketching out the inside part.
And this is just more of those little overlapping lines.
Now with the line work done,
let's start working on some shading.
Let's shade in the little poof of hair
and just give that an overall quick shade.
Then we can shade in Roger's eyebrows.
Then for the nose, shade that in as well.
Now we can shade in the back half of the mouth
and just very, very lightly shade in the tongue.
The whiskers are probably the easiest part.
We're just going to draw three big curve lines
on each side of the nose.
Now once you have the drawing complete,
the very last step, you got to sign it.
And there he is, Roger Rabbit,
from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
If you want to learn more, come see me
or the other great artists here at
Disney's Art of Animation Resort.
See you back here next time
where we'll draw another favorite character.
Sketch you later.
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