so we're going to be doing animal faces so say if we're drawing something from the front right
we got our dog we got some kind of dog or wolf from the front i don't want to see this
so we have the snout moving on this side we have full front so this is disproportionate
it is not in perspective i don't care what you tell me that's incorrect all right
we're trying to keep it accurate this is not accurate all right i'm sorry if i'm crushing your
dreams this is just not how it goes practically yes you can do it if you want to keep it this way
but if you're going for something a little more accurate this is incorrect so what we want to
do is we want to think of the faces in 3d shapes usually you most people think of like the head in
general as like a sphere kind of envision it with that curve we also want to envision the snout as
like a prism you can foreshorten right i'm keeping these two really really basic shapes right here
all right so we're going with dogs but this is just gonna go with cats this can go with foxes
go with anything right you just wanna make sure that you're shorthanding it
so if we're doing it from the front you still wanna think of that shape it's easier to identify
when you're actually looking at a picture of the animal that you are drawing so forwards like this
so when we're looking from the front we want to think of our faces like three-dimensional shape
just think of like prisms this is a sphere so it's a prism all right so again you can apply this
to really any animal doesn't matter which one if you apply it's like a say like a bird like
if you have like a beak the beak is then like a cone i guess if you gotta build like a curved
cone depending on the bird that you're drawing but again it's the basic shape that you want to think
of right you want to think of those really really basic like prisms that we're working with you know
so when you're drawing animal faces you want to think of them in 3d scents that way it's a little
bit easier to draw them right and then your nose would be kind of right here yep always easier to
think of those shapes those forms technically they're forms if they're 3d it is a form
right now we're going to be talking about how to place the animal ears on a person's head
in a proportional way so ear placement so if i kind of just draw a head for a second
so number one thing that i see is people just place the ears right here
this is a really common one it lends to more of an aesthetic than a function if we're placing these
ears on a human head uh this does not work at all doesn't matter what kind of ear rabbit dog cat
bear whatever right is it incorrect technically no again it's another one of those ones where
it's like can you place it there yes it works for aesthetic it works or whatever but it you know
does not necessarily matter what we're looking for instead right when we're placing ears so we
have a human head when it comes to cats and dogs and whatever they're little they function a little
bit differently right so our ear canals are placed here right that's where our ears are naturally our
ear canals are placed there the ear canals come out this way they come from the top of our heads
they don't come from up here they don't can they i suppose if you want to shift around everything
yes you can place them there but if you wanted to do something that lends a little bit more to the
humanoid aesthetic which is something that i tend to prefer to lean towards you would have your ears
kind of start up there and they would come down to the side of the head like this that tends to be
how it works a little bit more because then you have your ear canal down here and then the big
ear functions like it should because really what our ears are doing is they're amplifying
the abilities of our ear canal so that they can hear in a certain way it's kind of like
if you cup if you place like a cup next to a speaker right that cup and helps amplify
the sound of the speaker and that's really what these ears do that's why animals can hear so well
so what we want to do is we want to bring these animal ears kind of down to where our ear canals
are i actually think the larger look is a lot cuter personally that's a personal thing bring the
ears down to the ear canal like cupping a speaker you know like when you're holding your phone
and you put your hand like you cup it around the speakers that the sound can like curve more
towards you that's generally what these ears are doing so this is more for aesthetic this is more
for function if you want your ears to function like if you're making a d&d character if you're
making like an arc knight's character or whatever you may maybe you want like to have more function
to your design compared to just aesthetic the same deal with bunny ears like you know bring them down
bear ears are a little bit tougher because bear ears are more circular a little bit smaller so
you don't really have the triangular shape to lend off of so on and so forth that tends to be
how i think of that horses are tricky the thing with horses is that horse ears are not very large
so a lot of the times when we're thinking in this regard people tend to break this rule for horses a
lot i break the rule for horses a lot if we have like the person i tend to just kind of bring it
slightly down but i keep the ears more on top of the head like rather than breaking it down because
horse's ears are not fluffy they're very very skin like their ear canals rest on the top of the head
like others but on a person it looks a bit strange if you kind of have them down there you can make
them more fawn like like if you wanted them a little bit more fawn like then you can keep the
ears down here right that's what i do for deer is i keep their ears down here for horses it's a bit
different though so for horses i tend to break the rule and i just put the ear up on top but for deer
and the other kind of angola grade animals like deer moose all that fun jazz i tend to put the
ears on the side instead the thing with placing animal parts on a person is that it's all fantasy
right you can try and make it as biological as you possibly can but at the end of the day it is
fantasy so you can do whatever you want at your own discretion consider these like tips to help
you make them look better and more realistic and more functional but at the end of the day like
there is really no really harsh correct way to draw it do the best you can the thing with horns
it's hard to do horns wrong because there really isn't a wrong way to do them it's a horn placement
so let me just write a little disclaimer here technically there is no wrong way to draw horns
we'll talk the best placement in terms of weighting if we're talking about like tiny
little horns we're talking about tiny little nubs right those can be placed wherever the heck you
want right those are not heavy nobody cares just place them where you want there are better places
to place horns though if you have really really large ones so if we have like big rams horns
two places right if we have really really big horns this place back here we start from back here
on the head this feels unbalanced this is back heavy right so all really really big horns if you
place them somewhere near the back of the head those tend to feel really really unbalanced and
heavy and whatnot so it feels a little bit awkward if you drop them coming from there generally with
larger horns i tend to kind of give this rule so larger horns tend to look better when placed in
this area right so this kind of quadrant this kind of area on the front of the head starting
from the middle top of the head or the middle side of the head going down to like the forehead
that tends to look better when you're placing larger horns in that area that's ram's horns
that's deer horns that's demon horns whatever you're kind of going for so if we have like see
if we've got like really big funky rams horns what i kind of like to do is i start them from the top
kind of bring them around like that that tends to look really nice because it wraps around the head
it's almost like you're giving your character a helmet so this feels a little bit more balanced if
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i tend to do them on the forehead but like i know a lot of people don't always do that
if you have them place a little bit farther back like if you kind of have them farther on the head
i'd just be careful that you don't bring them back a little bit too far so if your hairline is down
here instead you got bigger horns you might want to place them upwards make them a little
bit thinner so they feel a little bit stronger but again still remaining within that quadrant
one look that i tend to really really love for horns is when they come straight from the forehead
to the person and the horns come straight from there and they're like the big tall demon horns
i really like that look but yeah generally if they kind of go within that quadrant it tends to look
really nice you just really need to think about the weighting would the character be okay with the
size of the ones that you're placing on that right think about how heavy those horns probably are
right horns are not super super light so depending on how large they are where do you think of that
they should be placed and that's really up to your own discretion if you liked what you saw be
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