- Hey there, I'm David DePasquale.
I'm the lead character designer
on the new Netflix animated movie "Arlo the Alligator Boy,"
and today, I'm gonna show you how to draw Arlo.
Let's get started.
- Rickety biscuit!
So we're gonna start with a circle.
We have a vertical line and a horizontal line.
Now above that horizontal line and kind of on either side
of that vertical line, we're gonna draw two big ovals
for his eyes,
actually smaller holes inside that first pupils.
And then for his nose,
we're actually gonna draw four big bumps
'cause alligators kind of have a bumpy nose.
So draw one that comes in between them, right?
So one, two, three, four,
that fourth one's gonna be a little bit bigger
'cause that's gonna be the front
of his nose and Arlo loves to sing.
He loves to laugh, so he loves to make his friends smile.
So we wanna give him a nice big smile here.
So we're gonna go from the tip of this fourth bump here
and we're gonna kind of swoop in to give him
this nice sort of big, wide smile.
We don't wanna go too straight
but we also don't wanna be too curvy.
So we kind of want somewhere in between
so we're just gonna go like that.
It's gonna kind of end just behind his eyes.
I'm gonna come down
from there and give him this nice, big open mouth.
Great, now starting to look like something, huh?
So you have the top of this jaw here.
Now you're at the bottom of his jaw.
So we're gonna go from the tip of his mouth
to just inside that circle.
He's gotta have a sense of smell
so let's give him his nostrils.
Draw like two little thumb shapes
on top of that fourth bump.
And inside just to little upside tear drop shapes
for his nostril holes.
Now we're gonna give him his cheeks.
So his cheek comes over the top
of his eye and also part of his mouth.
So it's a half circle.
Kind of comes out just like that
and we're gonna give him his three freckles.
He has one, two, three freckles there
and we gotta give him this tongue.
So his tongue, just a little rounded shape inside
that bottom jaw.
Then we gotta give him his teeth.
Now Arlo's alligator, yeah, but he's not a bad alligator
so we don't wanna give him pointy teeth.
We wanna give him nice, soft teeth.
So we're gonna draw one soft point underneath one nostril,
one soft point under the other nostril.
And then kind of follows a pattern for the last two.
So kind of a big and small under this second bump here.
And then just under his eye right in front of his cheek
you have big and small.
Then we gotta draw his bottom teeth.
So you have one, two in front
and one in front of his tongue.
One to kind of match that on the other side.
And then one just in front of these other teeth back here
and the other one's kind of covered
by his tongue a little bit.
So we probably won't be able to see it.
You wanna shade in his tongue a little bit there maybe.
So let's go ahead and let's move on to his ear.
And his ear if you follow the first circle that you made
and that horizontal line, the ear's actually
gonna be almost a complete circle just underneath that.
So his ear's actually a little bit lower
than you might think.
I'm gonna add an X in the middle just for the inside.
Awesome, getting somewhere.
And then we're gonna move on to his sideburns.
So his sideburns are these two little drop shapes,
one short and one a little bit longer.
And then we're gonna do the same for his bangs.
So the same shape, right, this little drop shape.
We're gonna do on the side here for his bangs.
So you have one kind of connected to his sideburns here.
You have one, you have two and then there's a third one
but that third one's a little bit different.
'Cause we'd like to think maybe he does his own hair.
So he kind of chopped off the top of that one,
which I think is really funny.
Cool and then we're gonna connect this top one back
to the back of his head.
So this big curve line gonna connect it right to that,
that circle that we made the first time.
It's gonna kind of come right in between
the side burn here and the ear.
So they have the kind of top shape of his hair
and he's got a little cowlick back here.
Again, he probably cut it himself.
So we chop off, you know, that part
of the hair and then we're gonna do the same kind
of shape here on the back of his head.
Just a little smaller and then to connect
we do another little tear drop shape
and then another straight kind
of chopped off bold cut type line here.
And his hair's probably a little bit messy
so we like to give him a couple of little cowlicks,
one little free strands of hair.
One up here and two down here.
Awesome, so we're almost done with his head.
We just have to add a couple more details.
So you have two chin lines here underneath his jaw
and then the bottom of his head actually just follows up
that initial circle that you made.
And the same thing up here you're gonna connect
his eye to his hair just by following that circle.
We're gonna give him eyebrows, which are just thin,
tinkered little lines.
I'm gonna give him a little line underneath his eye
and then what we're gonna do,
we're not gonna color his eyes in just yet.
We're gonna first give him little pie shapes.
So we know which direction Arlo is looking in.
Kind of helps, you've ever seen old cartoon
they do that too where they draw in little pies.
I really like the way they look.
(upbeat music)
Great, so there's Arlo's head.
You did it.
Now, let's move on to his body.
So we're gonna start at the bottom of his head here
and then draw two little swooshes for his neck.
And then he's kinda got a bean shaped,
little bit of a bean shaped body.
And we don't wanna go too scrunched up in the back there
but it's kind of got the shape where, you know,
kinda moves depending on what he's doing.
So sometimes he's standing still,
sometimes he's running forward.
Sometimes when he's playing his banjo,
you know, he leans back a little bit.
So his body can move in a bunch of different ways.
So we're gonna sort of attach his neck
to that little bean shaped body.
Awesome and then we're gonna come just below center here
and we're gonna give him a little line for his pants
So we know where his pants are gonna fall.
And then we're gonna draw in his collar.
So his collar is just a circle right
around his neck and then an M.
So to make an M, right, kind of where his neck meets
his body and you just follow the line you just made.
And then draw in the rest of the collar.
So from the top of this bean now that we're gonna draw
his shoulders and his arms.
And his arms are kind of like little, they're tube-like.
So they kind of have two parallel lines depending
on what he's doing, you know?
He has one arm bent or his arm straight.
They kind of follow each other.
So we're gonna draw his shoulders attaching
to the top of that shape there.
Maybe he's got his hands on his hips
so gonna draw his upper arm, elbow, his lower arm.
And for his hand, it's just a circle.
You've got these kind of pointy little fingers.
Remember, he's part alligator so.
Gonna do the same thing on the other side,
these little tube arms.
(upbeat music)
And then a circle and his little pointy fingers.
And we wanna indicate his T-shirt
so we're gonna put his sleeves.
Those are just gonna follow the angle of his arms.
Great, now we wanna draw his shoulder strap.
So you started his shoulder, kind of come
down over his pants to hold his pants up.
And then the other line comes from the inside of his collar
and then goes down, wraps around his body.
And then we draw his little pant lines.
He's got his front line and then his pocket line.
His legs are very similar to his arms so kind of these tubes
that come out from that body shape.
At the end he's kind of got these little reptile feet
so he's got these pointy toes.
They're a little flatter than human feet.
He's got three of them.
Then he got pant cuffs, kind of follow the shape
of his legs but come out just little farther.
So they look like long pants that have
just been cuffed up to his knees.
And then all they have to do is his tail
and his tail just kind of follows the curve
of the bottom of his body and then swoops up.
And then just a curve for the top.
And he's got these three bumps on his tail just like that.
And then you've drawn Arlo.
Good job.
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