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- Hi everyone, welcome to the Disney Princess Club.
I'm Isabella, and this is my friend Amy.
- Hi Isabella.
My name's Amy Mebberson, and I'm a Disney artist.
And I designed these little cuties,
which we're going to share with you today.
These are the Disney Princess Comic Blind Minis.
And these are by Hasbro.
Now we're gonna do something special with these today,
as well, they're not just toys.
What are we gonna do?
- Well, Amy's gonna give us a step-by-step
drawing tutorial on how to draw one of these princesses.
- While I'm here.
So yeah, so we have 12 of them to choose from.
So we should pick who we're gonna draw.
So, would you like to let the boxes decide?
- Yes.
- Which one are you gonna pick?
- I'm gonna pick this one.
- Oh, let's see who we go, let's see who we got.
- It's Ariel.
- It's Ariel!
In a little dress. - Look at her.
And look at her pretty bow.
Let's get started.
Okay so now we have everything ready
and let's jump right into it.
- Let's jump right in.
Let's draw Ariel.
Okay.
Like most heads, when you draw a head
you're starting with a circle, basically.
So ah, keep it in the middle,
keep your circle in the middle of the paper
because Ariel's got some pretty big hair
and you don't wanna run out of paper.
And we're using just a brown pencil.
And we're gonna have a go in later
with a darker pencil and put things in.
Okay, now we're going to draw just a line down the middle.
You can make it a little curved.
And that's gonna help us put her nose
and her mouth in the right spot.
And then we're gonna put a line through the middle,
now not right through the middle,
but slightly below the middle.
So if you can imagine where the middle
of that circle is and you're gonna go
slightly below, that is perfect, right there.
Yup.
I usually like to place the nose first.
Now Ariel's got a little nose, it's kind of like a peanut.
She's got like a little,
it's almost like a little peanut on the...
See, it's just a little peanut.
Now we're gonna put the eyes in.
Now, we got some pretty big eyes here.
We're gonna start with kind of an egg shape.
So they're nice big eyes.
And they're just placed on either side of that.
And again, that's where you see that middle line
is important, so that helps you make sure
the eyes are even on both sides.
Ariel's eyes are special because kind of
they look a little kind of like triangular.
And that is because that's where you place her eyelids.
So we're gonna start on the outside of the eye
and come into the middle.
And you can see that's where her
first of her eyelashes is gonna go.
And her eyelashes kinda sit in the middle like that.
So you can press a little harder.
- Did you always know that you wanted to draw?
- Oh absolutely.
I mean, I was two years old.
And I think, you usually put a pencil in a little kid's hand
and the first thing they wanna do is make marks with it.
No, I've just always drawn,
it was just something I was born to do.
Now we're gonna draw the underside of the eye now.
So it's not gonna be a complete circle,
we're going to flatten that.
We're gonna flatten the underside
of the eye a little bit, like that.
Can you see that?
So then when you bring, when you join the other...
So you can see it's kind of a fat triangle.
Where we drew that little peanut
that'll just help us place where the edges
of her nose are, can you see that?
I'm just drawing that around the edge.
Now Ariel has very fine lips,
so we're just going to start with just a smile.
And we're going to just put her top lip in.
And again she's got very fine lips,
she doesn't have full lips like Snow White or Cinderella.
She's got a very fine mouth.
And I'm gonna bring my arm around here like this
'cause it's a little easier to draw from this angle.
So you can see it's kinda coming together.
She's got a lovely big, wide smile
because Ariel's literally thinks everything is awesome.
She really does.
- [Isabella] Especially when she went out of the sea
for the first time, everything was like...
- It was like everything she'd ever
wanted it to be and more.
And it's like, 'cause that's Ariel.
She's curious, she wants to see
and know everything about people.
Even when they say, no, that's dangerous,
you shouldn't touch that.
She's the one who'd go, I wanna touch it.
(laughing)
So now as you see, I'm going in
I'm adding in the rest of her eyes.
So she can look off this side,
or she can look off this side.
So you just draw her iris in first, like I did there.
There you go, you see, her eyes
are starting to come together.
And you do another one the same way on that side.
Okay.
And now, to draw her pupil.
We're gonna draw another circle inside
the circles that you just drew.
The eye is kind of three rings kind of,
three circles kind of moving into each other.
- [Isabella] How is it different
drawing underwater characters?
- [Amy] Underwater characters.
- Yeah.
Like Ariel, like sometimes her hair is all like
you have to make it look like she's underwater sometimes.
- Yeah, there's no gravity.
(laughing)
Yeah.
I mean, in a way it's a lot of fun drawing
characters underwater because you know,
her hair just floats around and it let's you
create some really fun shapes, with things floating around,
and stuff like that.
And you get to draw a lot of bubbles.
Which are always good.
Okay.
Now Ariel also needs some eyebrows.
So, again, she's just got kinda fine eyebrows.
I'm just gonna put those there above her eyes.
Now, let's fill out the rest of her face a little bit more.
So I'm going to just give her
a little bit more of a cheek around here.
And I'm just gonna mark there where her chin
is going to go, that's where the bottom
of her chin's going to go.
And I just bring this line around like this,
and boop, like that.
So can you see what I'm doing on this side?
You sort of start up where her eyebrow,
and just bring it down, and then bend it in
towards that corner of her eye.
Can you see that?
So you would do boom boom.
- [Isabella] So right by?
- Right by the edge of her eye.
That's right, yeah.
That's about right, there we go.
And then you're gonna bring the line out again.
And that's gonna form her cheek.
That's it, just like that.
And then just bring it around and attach it,
attach that line to the bottom where her chin's gonna go.
All right, and then I'm just gonna do the same
on the other side here, and just join up
where her chin's gonna go.
- [Isabella] What was your favorite part
of The Little Mermaid movie?
- I remember the first time I saw Part of Your World.
That beautiful, beautiful song.
And Jodi Benson's beautiful voice.
It's like, oh, who is this girl?
And Ariel was the first Disney princess
we'd had in a long time when Little Mermaid came out.
Disney really created a whole new world.
- Yeah.
- They really did when they created Ariel.
And then we're going to start drawing the most
famous pair of bangs in Disney.
So this is where her part of her hair is gonna go,
just kind of up here next to her eyebrow.
And it's just gonna go swoosh.
Swoosh around her head.
And a swoosh around and meets her other eyebrow.
(laughing)
And this is how we build her bangs.
And she's got this big big bangs.
This is always the fun part about drawing Ariel
because she's all swooshes.
And we're just gonna stop there 'cause that's where
the edge of her bangs is, and then we're just
gonna do another, and then we add another
big puff on top of it, like that.
And I'm gonna start to round out the back of her head here.
This is where the back of her head goes.
And again your skull will be there,
but your hair is never flat against your skull.
Your hair has volume.
So it's gonna come out a little more.
And I'm just gonna go swoosh.
Swoosh like that.
Swoosh.
Ariel is great for swoosh.
You're just drawing the edge of a circle.
It's like you're drawing a circle
around past her ear, and then just go swoosh.
And Ariel's hair doesn't have to swoosh that way,
you can swoosh this way, it can swoosh that way,
it can swoosh in front of her eyes because she's a mermaid.
And her hair defies gravity.
Now I'm just gonna do the edge of her hair there
because her hair's tied back here.
'Cause her hair is tied back.
Now let's add this lovely big blue bow
she's got in her hair.
Now we know basically a bow is a big fat triangle.
So on the back of the head you just go yonk, yonk, yonk.
And there is your bow.
(laughing)
And you'll see a little bit of the one
on the other side, as well.
So there she is.
- [Isabella] What do you like most about Ariel?
- What I love most about Ariel,
I just said, she's all swooshes.
But I love Ariel because of her curiosity.
Like all she wanted to do was learn about humans.
It's like she's almost like a scientist.
She's like a scientist who wants to study humans.
And she collects things,
and she has like her own little,
she keeps her own little museum really.
- Yeah, she has her grotto.
- She has her grotto with all her items in it.
So that's what I love about Ariel.
What do you like about Ariel?
- I like how adventurous she is.
- Yeah, yeah I mean, you gotta be adventurous
to go and dive into a ship and, you know,
avoid sharks. (laughing)
All right, so this is our rough drawing
kinda more or less getting finished here.
So right now, as you can see, I've put aside
the brown pencil and I've taken up
just your regular graphite number two.
You could use a ball point pen.
You could use a marker.
So what I'm doing now is I'm gonna go
and start to darken some of these lines.
All right, so as you can see, I'm starting with the eyes.
Because the eyes are the most important thing
on a face, they're the first thing you look at.
So as you can see it's almost like
you're putting her mascara on.
Ariel doesn't wear mascara.
Yeah, I mean, there's no right way to draw.
You can draw really really rough lines like I'm doing.
Or, if you're watching Isabella here,
she's got a very neat clean line, if that's comfortable.
So I'm just going in there, I'm just using
this graphite pen to just color in her pupils.
Just make them a little bit darker.
As you can see, it helps them stand out a bit.
And yeah, so you can use the point of the pencil,
or you can turn the pencil,
you can see the way I'm holding it here.
You can turn it on its side and do it like this.
And I'm just drawing her mouth line there.
It just makes it stand out a little bit.
I'm gonna color her top lip, I'll leave the bottom.
And I'm just going around the important parts.
So just the edge of her face, her eyes.
- [Isabella] Do you ever make mistakes?
- Oh, all the time.
I mean that's how you learn.
You almost never get it right the first time.
You know, even people like me who've been doing this
for a long time, you'll start drawing something,
and you'll just go, oh, that is so not working.
And that's okay, because you know,
making mistakes means you won't do that next time.
- [Isabella] And you'll learn.
- And you'll make a better drawing, exactly.
Your mistakes help you learn.
The dark pencil really makes a difference.
And again, it doesn't matter if you see your red lines
'cause that shows the steps you took to get where you are.
Because you know all drawings need your construction line,
you don't really draw just eye, nose, mouth, done, you know.
It always helps to have some little lines.
I'm gonna color in this bit of her hair just
because that bit will be in shadow.
And we'll add a little bit of a collar as well.
So you can see where we started to do her neck.
So we're just gonna do a letter U underneath that.
Just do a letter U to join the edges of her neck.
And there we go.
Excellent.
And I think we are done.
- Well thank you so much for helping us draw Ariel.
I had the best time.
- Thank you, this was so much fun.
And you did an amazing job today, Isabella.
And we hope you guys had fun following along
drawing Ariel with us today.
- And make sure to watch our other How to Draw videos.
See you next time.
Bye. - Bye.
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