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- Hi everyone welcome back to the Disney Princess Club.
I'm Isabella and I'm with my friend Amy.
- Hi I'm Amy Mebberson and I'm
a Disney artist and I designed
these little cuties we're gonna show you today.
These are the Disney princess comic
blind boxes and these are by Hasbro.
But I think we can probably do something
a little bit special today, what do you think?
- And today, we're so excited because
Amy's going to tell us how to draw one of the princesses.
- [Amy] I am?
- Yes.
(laughing)
So we have a bunch of the boxes here and--
- Well we got 12 to choose from.
I'm gonna let you choose I think.
- Yes.
- Yeah let's pick one.
- There's so many.
- Which one?
- I'm gonna go, this one.
- What you gonna pick, what you gonna pick?
See who we got.
- It's Merida.
- Okay, this'll be fun.
Let's get started.
- Okay now everything's set.
Let's get started.
- Let's get going.
All right let's draw Merida.
So the first thing we're gonna do is
we are starting with just a brown pencil, this can be
a colored pencil, this can be whatever you like.
And Merida has a very round head, it's an oval.
So we're just gonna draw, just lightly.
Just relax.
So you're just draw kind of this
flat circle for Merida's head.
That is perfect, that's a really good starting head.
So we've got that and then we're gonna draw
a line down the middle, just lightly.
Straight down the middle and we're gonna draw another
one across so it's kind of like a cross in the middle.
Now, I like to put the nose in first.
Now Merida doesn't have a very big nose,
it's just a little bean in the middle of the face like that.
Just a little pea.
So this is very cartoony Merida.
And Merida's eyes are very round.
Round eyes.
So, again, kind of like eggs.
I always usually start with kind of an egg.
So almost like the shape of her head, just smaller.
As you can see, I'm not drawing just one line,
I'm kind of going back and forth and just,
adding little bits to the line as I go
so I can make sure the eyes look even.
Now Merida's gonna be looking at us today so,
I'm going to, draw her inner eyes here.
Excellent, you're doing great Isabella.
- [Isabella] Thank you.
- All right so these are her basic eyes
and then we're gonna draw another circle
inside the circles we just drew.
So we're drawing three circles to make up the eyes.
And this circle in the middle is gonna be her pupil.
So we're gonna color that in
and make sure that's nice and dark.
Yeah.
Okay.
Now Merida's got red hair so she's got pale,
she hasn't got very thick eyelashes,
just little pale ones.
Just not very many of them just round the edge of her eye.
She's got eyebrows, they're not very thick ones,
she's got very fine eyebrows.
She's having a good day, she's hit all her targets,
she's climbed the Devil's Tooth and drunk from the Firefalls
and her brothers have not made a mess
for her to have to clean up so.
- If you had the chance to change your fate, would you?
Even if your mom turned into a bear?
(laughing)
- Actually I'm very happy with what fate has dealt me
because I get sit here and I get to draw Disney princesses
and show all you guys how to do it.
And Merida doesn't have very thick lips
so you'd probably get away with not drawing any at all.
Just, that's fine.
You can add some little lips to her
if you like but you don't really see 'em.
I'm just gonna put a little, again,
where that line is that we drew,
that's gonna be where the bottom of her chin is.
That's her chin.
And, again, just making sure everything
connects up and we have the shape of her head right.
You're doing great, excellent.
Merida has quite a slim neck.
Thin neck, quite a long neck actually,
she has a long neck.
So we're gonna go down here and down here
and this is where her shoulders would go if we were
going further but we're just keeping it up here today.
And we're going to connect these two together with a U.
The letter U there.
Gonna join them together.
And that is where the top of her dress would go.
Now, we come to the fun part.
What would be Merida without that
giant cloud of beautiful red curls?
So, we're gonna start up at the
top here, the top of that line.
Now you think Merida has one big mass of curls
but she's got one big curl that sits on the side here,
it's like her bang.
So we're gonna start there and go woosh, like that.
There we go.
And then we're gonna do another woosh, to fil it in.
And there you go.
Now, we have fun.
So we can just grab a marker or a crayon or whatever you
like and we're just gonna go woosh, woosh, woosh like this.
Yeah have fun!
'Cause you know, this is a girl who
Merida doesn't really care about things like brushing,
I'm sure she only brushes her hair because her mum
makes her do it but, honestly, she'd much rather
just roll out of bed and just get
straight to more important things like
riding a horse and going out and riding in the woods.
And Merida has very messy hair too so you can just go
ring, ring, ring, pluck, pluck, pluck, pluck, pluck.
She's got lots of little strays hairs all over the place.
- What's your favorite trait about Merida?
I really like how she's always brave
and she always follows her heart.
- Yeah she's very tenacious.
She knows exactly what she, well
she knows what she doesn't want, that's for sure.
So, she says, "I'm not gonna do that
"and I am not gonna let fate decide what my life is,
"I'm gonna decide that for myself."
So and here is Merida coming together pretty well here.
That is yeah.
Yeah rock it, rock the curls.
Now, again, Merida is a redhead
so she does have a few little freckles.
Just kind of in the middle of her nose, just above her nose.
She's got some little freckles in there.
You only see them in strong light but there she is.
So we've got kind of our basic under drawing down.
So we're going in with just our graphite pencil here
or, again, this could be a ballpoint pen
or a crayon, or a marker.
And we're just gonna darken some areas.
Now, I always like to start with the eyelashes
because the eyes are the most important part.
You know, you can do this on paper,
if you have like a tablet with a pen,
you can do it on that as well, there's lots
of art programs you could play around with.
You could draw on copy paper, whatever you got lying around.
It's all good.
The most important things I go in and darken are her eyes,
little bit of her nose there and her mouth.
That's kind of all it needs.
Gonna add the little frill here, it's the edge of her dress.
It's just a little part of the collar.
And there you go, you are doing a great job today Isabella.
- [Isabella] Thank you.
- [Amy] So I'm gonna go and just
keep having fun with the hair here a sec.
You can just sit here and do this forever
'cause with Merida, there is no such thing as too much hair.
It's just bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla.
Yeah her hair's very thick, it covers her ears,
kind of comes down over her shoulders.
I don't know how her bow doesn't get tangled in this.
She's comes back from the forest,
there's like things lost in there.
There's leaves and there's all sorts of things.
Yeah!
That's coming together great.
- [Isabella] What was your
favorite part of Disney/Pixar's Brave?
- [Amy] Favorite part of Disney/ Pixar's Brave,
I will tell you exactly the right moment,
it is when she wakes up one morning
and she doesn't have to be a princess.
She hops on Angus and rides out
and you got that wonderful song
where she's just riding through the woods
and shooting her arrows and climbing mountains
and Angus is rolling on the grass like a big dog
and that scene just makes me so happy.
I just have to stop whatever I'm doing and watch it.
- I also like when she starts to love her mom
like, even though, I'm sure
some people get annoyed with their mom sometimes--
- Mums can be a handful sometimes yeah.
I feel that.
Ultimately sometimes it takes something like this to
realize that you know, perhaps
you're not so different after all.
And you can meet in the middle.
Okay and I think we're almost about done here.
So yeah.
So that is Merida.
- I had such a great time.
Thank you so much for teaching me how to draw.
- So did I and you did a great job keeping up today.
- Make sure to check out our other how to draw videos.
Thank you so much for watching.
- [Both] Bye!
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