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- Hello, I'm Ari Castleton,
I'm the Storyboard Supervisor on The Loud House,
and we're gonna be drawing Luna Loud today.
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- [Luna] One, two, three!
- So, Luna's head, and I usually start with the head,
it's not just a normal circle
like some of the other sisters,
it's kind of like a bean-shape.
So what you do is you draw like one circle
for the top as kind of like where her forehead's gonna be,
them you draw another circle on the bottom
where like her chin's gonna be like that.
And then after that,
we're gonna draw two construction lines
that kind of go down both of these circles.
And the construction lines,
they just help us figure out where we're gonna put
the eyes and everything of the character.
And usually down the middle of the face is where
the eyes, the nose, and the mouth meet.
So that's where we'll kind of like put that in.
So you'll see there's this line
that kind of follows both of these circles.
And then we'll just draw another line
that goes right through it.
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So after you have the head shape down,
we're gonna draw the eyes and the mouth.
So, Luna just has these circular eyes
that kind of meet right where the cross hairs meet.
So you just kind of draw two circles there.
And a little tip with drawing eyes on the head.
If you want them to kind of be leaning forward or backwards,
you can kind of push the eyes in that direction too.
So if you have the eyes do this,
you can kind of tell her head's leaning this way.
And if you have the eyes doing this,
you can kind of tell the head's moving that way.
The eyes are always, are what are kind of
leading the character's expressions
'cause that's the first thing
we as an audience kind of look at.
So we're gonna have her leaning forward.
And just have,
she has these, we're gonna give her half eyelids
just 'cause she's really cool and she
wants to look the part.
- Something has to be done about your duds.
- She has a little pointy nose,
and she has three freckles right there,
kind of like Lincoln.
Then she has two eyelashes off the side of her hair.
And then for her hair,
her hair's a little mess on the top,
but it mostly followed the shape of her head.
So you want to draw the two little cowlicks
off the side here on the top of her head,
and then just kind of follow the rest of like,
just like, just above the drawing of the circle you can draw
little toffs of hair that kind of go down
until it gets to, like her forehead.
And then she has these bangs that are just
really, just bushy.
'cause she's a rockstar and she don't care about that hair.
- Stage dive!
(cheering)
- And then you just draw the rest of the side of her hair.
Just kind of tucks in behind her ear,
and you'll kind of see the ear lands
right where these two circles meet.
So that's kind of why we put those in.
They help guide us.
And I've drawn Luna for about four years now,
and I always start with an underdrawing still.
Because there's a lot of detail to these characters
and you wanna make sure you get it right.
Cool.
Just give her a little, little eyebrows right here.
Just a little, a little fly smile.
'Cause she's cool like that.
- So much better.
- Whenever you have the head, you wanna make sure the feet
are gonna be underneath the head at the end of the pose
because if they're not, she's gonna be
kind of leaning forwards or backwards
so you wanna make sure you distribute the weight evenly.
It's one of those things that'll really sell
your characters, and your drawings to look almost lifelike,
even though they're cartoons.
- Dude, that makes total sense!
- So, I'm gonna just have a slight curve in her body.
It's kind of drawing a little line of direction
that just kind of helps me figurer out
where I want my shapes to kind of lie on
in the overall character design.
And you can kind of draw her boots down here.
Cool, so once you have that, like tube of a body,
like going down the middle of it,
what you want to do is put, kind of like where the legs
would meet the hip.
And you just draw a little, it's usually halfway through it.
You just draw a little line right there.
Then Luna has this kind of plaid skirt.
And that kind of draws right above and below that midline.
So what you do is you draw a line there, line at the bottom,
and you just start drawing
a little checkered pattern like that.
That's like her skirt.
Cool, and after kind of looking at it,
I think I'm gonna change the foot
so it's less, you know, stuck on the floor here.
You just kind of push out, push it out a bit.
Give the character a little bit more flow.
Cool.
After kind of looking at it again
you can get rid of parts of drawings
that you don't think look right.
That's kind of why we do an underdrawing.
So just kind of find the parts you think you wanna fix,
and, cool I think her legs are looking okay right there.
She has her boots here,
so I'm just gonna draw little lines here.
All right so Luna has pretty raggedy T shirts
just 'cause she goes to so many concerts
and she rocks out super hard.
- Stage dive!
(yells)
(hits floor) (yells)
- So draw little, like rips off the side of them
where her arms and her head comes through her shirt.
She has this little skull, it's the coolest shirt ever.
It's got this purple shirt that has this little skull on it.
I'm gonna kind of her
this, like, sassy arm at the hip kind of thing.
Just to, just to kinda even out the pose
'cause we a lot kinda going on on this side,
I kinda wanna put some stuff on this side too.
Sweet, and then 'cause she's a rocker,
we'll kind of give her the goats.
'cause she never stops rocking.
(cheering) - Goodnight living room.
(bangs table)
- Their arms, they're pretty skinny,
and they kind of bend.
You don't want them to be like too sharp like that,
you just kind of want them to just easily bend
as if they were like straws almost.
There, that looks good.
Cool, so for the hands, she has these bracelets on,
just put those there.
Cool, so where drawing the hands of The Loud House,
imagine there's a circle here,
and they only have four fingers.
So you just gotta kind of account for that.
So you draw the pinky, the middle, pointer,
and then the thumb like that.
You just kind of base that all off the original circle.
- It was in that moment, I realized, I was Luna Loud.
- Can't forget the back tough here.
Sweet, guess we can move on to the inking part of it,
let's do that.
Get a nice clean, black line brush, that looks pretty good.
We're just gonna go over it.
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So for her eyelids, I like to kind of curve
the eyelids a little bit just because
eyes aren't exactly flat, they have,
like a circumference of them, they're spheres.
So when you draw an eyelid,
you don't want it to just go straight across.
You kind of want it to curve a little bit.
Just gives your character a little bit more depth,
and a little more realism.
And that stuff can really push
your characters to the next level.
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All right, she has a very small neck,
but that does into the tear of this T shirt.
And it's good that we did this underdrawing
'cause now we don't really have to think about
where these drawings are gonna go,
but just kind of how we want to design them on top of that.
So I'm gonna kinda go for the clothes first
and then the legs.
And again, these characters are made of, you know
three dimensional shapes almost where,
imagine here body's kind of like this cylinder like that,
and if there's a line that goes through it,
like for the skirt,
you'd kinda wanna curve it a bit.
And it just kinda shows that she's angling herself that way
as opposed to it just being flat,
and there's no real dimension to it.
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The sister's legs, they usually start thinner on the top,
and they get thicker as they go down.
Just really slightly.
They don't need to be these big triangles or anything.
But just, really one side is flat, and then one side,
as it's going down it just kind of opens up.
And since she's wearing boots,
it's just something to keep in mind.
You can just imagine that her legs are kind of opening up
at the bottom there.
Wanna make sure I'm still following
that line of action that's going down.
And it's okay if you need to do this a couple times
to get it right.
Sweet!
Then I'll just draw a line here for the top of her boots.
So we wanna make sure we're inking her down
correctly to the floor.
You can't, you don't really wanna just draw feet,
like however,
because how the feet are angled are gonna determine
how she is, like on the floor.
So if you drew the feet like this
we can imagine she's kind of like floating up like that.
That not something we really wanna go for, for Luna.
So we wanna make sure,
let's say one of her boots is like that,
we want to make sure the other one
is kind of on that same ground plane, so.
If you imagine, like if you drew a line here
the heel of each boot would kind of meet at that line.
So after that you just draw a couple X's here
for her boot laces, probably just three X's.
And draw a little shadow underneath her skirt.
'cause that where her legs are coming from.
There we go, there we go.
And you can just add little shadows here
where the arms and legs are sticking out
just to give it a little bit more depth.
Sweet, and if you just turn off your underdrawing.
And that's how you draw Luna Loud.
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(rock guitar)
- Goodnight Loud House
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