- Hi, everyone.
I'm Megan Nicole Dong, and I am the creator,
executive producer and voice of Glendale
in my show, "Centaurworld."
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So today, I'm just gonna show you guys how to draw some
of the characters from our show.
I'm gonna show you how to draw Wammawink,
Durpleton, and, of course the character I play, Glendale.
So a lot of these characters,
I originally drew on paper in sketchbooks.
So some of what we went for was something
that felt really hand drawn.
So there's no pressure really
to make them feel super perfect.
We liked that they felt like they were kind of organic
and kind of doodly.
So with Wammawink, who is our alpaca centaur
and the leader of the herd.
- Hm, yes?
- I like to kind of start with the top of her head,
and she's really round and fluffy
'cause she's an alpaca centaur.
So all the shapes with her are kind of round.
So she's got some fluffy bangs up here too,
and her face is really round like a little circle,
and she has these big, old eyes.
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One of the things that I really wanted to do
with designing the character from the show
is really kind of get to make characters that had all kinds
of different body types.
They're all really colorful, and also,
they're all shaped a little bit differently,
which was really fun.
Wammawink's usually smiling.
So we'll give her a little, open, happy mouth.
She probably singing something.
She's almost got kind of like her fur
is kind of almost like a tank top here,
and that's how it kinda connects to her shoulders,
so we'll kind of almost draw these little sleeves here.
And she's got these cute, round arms.
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And you can see a little bit of her tummy.
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And then back here,
I'm gonna draw kind of where her tail connects,
and we're gonna stay away from the legs today
because I know four-legged animals are kinda hard to draw.
And then I'm gonna draw Glendale next to her.
(Glendale shrieks)
- Gelndale, calm down, okay?
Use your words.
- Vodka, apple juice, strawberry cupcakes, beekeepers.
Whoa!
- And Glendale has gigantic eyes,
and they're not quite circles.
They're almost more like these,
almost these oval shapes.
She also has giant pupils.
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And so I'm gonna draw two of these for her eyes.
And then she's got like almost like
these wing-tip eyeliner eyelashes.
And I'm just gonna draw the top of her head
and the top of her hair over here.
And then her ears connect all the way
to the outsides of her eyes.
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And her eyes are almost bigger than her head.
They're really buggy.
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And then I'm gonna draw a little mouth.
And then here in between her face and her ears,
I'm gonna draw her hair because her hair kind of
is tucked right here behind her face.
And then Glendale is actually a gerenuk centaur,
and they're a kind of antelope,
and I think that word actually
means giraffe-necked antelope,
so she has a really long, skinny neck like that.
And I'm gonna go ahead and put
Wammawink's other arm back here.
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Let's see here.
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She's gonna have an arm over Gelndale.
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Glendale has long, skinny arms too.
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So there's Glendale.
There's Wammawink.
And then I'm gonna have Durpleton sneaking over here
in the bottom of the page.
- Hello.
- Durpleton, because he's got a long giraffe neck,
he can kind of appear anywhere
'cause he just stretches his neck over.
So Durpleton's got you know round eyes,
and then he's got a cheekbone here.
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I'm gonna draw this big chin down here,
and he's got a little cleft in there
and then start drawing his hair
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and one of his little giraffe horns,
which we found out on the show are called ossicones,
if you want to sound fancy for your friends.
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There's his ears,
and I'm gonna go ahead and sneak his neck
all the way around,
and he's gonna be just looped, looping around off screen.
We had him do that a lot in the show because he's a giraffe.
Let's see.
So we don't know where he's got the rest of his body is.
Okay.
Part of the Wammawink's leg here.
Okay, here are our characters.
I'm gonna add a little bit of color, just a little bit
because our show is so colorful
and our characters are so colorful.
Wammawink is a very bright pink.
I'm just gonna add some color to the ears over here,
just to the side of her face.
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I'm gonna add a little bit in Glendale's hair.
Sometimes adding a little pop of color
just makes things come off the page,
even if we're not coloring the whole thing.
And then you some brown
so that we can see Durpleton's spots.
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And these can kinda go anywhere.
They don't have to be any uniform shape,
just big blobs of color.
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And then because our centaurs are all really magical,
sometimes the other thing that I like to just sort of add
is just some sparkles.
♪ Sparkle blinkies fill the world with glitter ♪
- You'll see in the show, they sing a lot,
they dance a lot, and they do a lot of magic,
which often involves sparkling.
That's it. This is how we can sketch our characters.
Have fun with it.
Their shapes are really fun and weird,
and a lot of it is just making it organic.
And I'd love to see how you guys do your own drawings
of Durpleton, Wammawink, and Glendale.
- (chuckles) That was awesome.
- Uh. - Huh?
- Hey. - Huh.
- Yeah. - Where'd it go?
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- So horses are notoriously difficult to draw,
so bear with me.
I'm gonna just walk you through
how to draw this character.
If you don't get it perfect, that's fine.
I'm probably not gonna get it perfect myself
because horses are hard to draw.
So I'm gonna go ahead and start with where her eye would be.
When we first meet Horse, she's kind of a tough character.
- Do you have some sort of problem with me?
- And she's got a lot more angles on her
than the other characters in the show
who are all very round and wobbly.
So she's got a lot more
lot more straight lines and kind of boxier features
than the characters.
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She's got these bangs
on the front of her head.
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And yeah, she's usually got kind of a,
not a frown exactly, but a lotta times,
she looks a little bit angrier
'cause she's used to being in war.
And her she's got pointy ears
like little wedges
and her mane has got a lot of little spikes on it
because she's a war horse,
but she still has a flowy, pretty mane of hair.
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And Horse is almost this kind of grayish blue color.
Right now, I'm just gonna use something
a little bit brighter just so you can kinda see
what her basic coloration would normally be.
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And her mane is kind of a whitish gray,
and she's got a white stripe on her nose.
Yeah, so that's basically how you would draw Horse.
She's our main character from our show,
and she is a war horse, and she's very tough.
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Again, I know horses are tough to draw,
but I would love to see any of your attempts
at drawing Horse.