Oh, hi!
My name is Andrew Feliciano and I'm an Animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
I've been there for about six years now and I've worked on films like Big Hero 6, Moana,
Wreck-It Ralph 2, Frozen 2, and right now I'm working on upcoming action-packed adventure
called Raya and the Last Dragon.
I'm really excited that you guys tuned in today, because we're going to be drawing one
of my favorite characters from the 1994 smash hit The Lion King, that's right everyone,
we're drawing Pumbaa!
Okay so, here we go!
Like most Disney characters, they start with a circle for the head.
So we're going to go ahead and draw that.
There we go.
And then, we're going to give ourselves some guidelines.
So we're going to give a guideline down the center.
And we're going to give another one right here.
This is going to be the eyeline.
So Pumbaa's eyes, they sit a little bit higher on his head.
They're not in the dead center.
They're just above that.
So now, the next step that I like to do, I like to kind of find where his brows are going
to sit.
They're kind of like triangle shapes, right there that break outside the edge of the circle.
And now, let's find his snout.
So his snout or his pig nose it's going to be a triangular shape that kind of sticks
out of his head, so this is going to be like the bridge of his nose and we're going to
draw ourselves a triangle outside of this circle.
Now the perspective on the snout is going to be the same as the head.
You can see how I give myself a guideline.
Alright and now we're just going to rough in what his smile might look like, kind of
like this.
So this just a curve, swooping shape coming up to here that's going to press up against
the eye that's like his cheek.
Alright so next, let's go ahead and rough in his tusks.
Now his tusks, that's kind of the raindrop shape.
So the tusk is coming off of here, so you can kind of use this center point on the head
out and you can draw this raindrop shape like this and in a minute we're going to do some
more work on these tusk shapes.
Now this shape is a little different because it's in perspective, but in general it's the
same shape.
Alright, let's see.
Okay, now let's see what's next here.
Let's go ahead and put some eyes on him.
We're going to draw this, this is going to be his cheek.
I like drawing Pumbaa's eyes round.
It makes him look nice and friendly
and we all know Pumbaa is a very friendly guy.
Alright well that's where his eyes are starting to sit.
Now, let's draw his warts.
His warts are the things on the side of his head and those are also triangular shapes.
So you're going to bring that off of here like that, kind of lines up, it's almost like
an extension of his cheek.
So something like this.
Alright, now let's go ahead and find his nostrils.
Pigs have ... sorry I called him a pig again!
Warthogs have nostrils and there going to be right here on the end of his nose.
We're going to draw like an oval shape and we're going to put another oval shape here.
But this oval shape will be a little bit thinner than the one beside it.
It gives the illusion that it's wrapping around in space.
So now, I told you we were going to come back to these tusks and we're going to do a little
bit more work there.
So, there's a piece of his snout that is wrapping up and going around that tusk, right there
you can kind of see that.
So, we're just drawing right on through that, that's the shape.
This tusk is coming out and is wrapping back around towards his eye.
And then to show some form or volume, we put a couple lines in there, like that.
I forgot these.
These show dimension.
Like a half-circle inside of the circle of his nostril and then it looks like we're looking
up his nose, into his nose.
Cool!
And then this tusk over here, this same piece of snout that's coming off this way and it's
wrapping around that tusk there and now, there we go.
Cool!
So, let's move forward a little bit here and we're going to give his nose some wrinkles
and now we're going to draw his chin.
Pumbaa's chin, his head and his chin, kind of make this water balloon shape if you will.
At least that's what Tony Bancroft used to call it, he referred to it as a shape like
a water balloon.
If you don't know Tony Bancroft, he was the supervising animator of Pumbaa in
The Lion King and I was very fortunate to get to work with him on some Timon and Pumbaa safety videos
where Timon and Pumbaa taught you all about fire safety and water safety.
I think there were a few others.
But yeah, I had the fortunate opportunity of learning how to draw this guy from Tony,
the supervising animator.
So, we're going to rough in the shape of his body here.
His body is kind of shaped like a bean sort of.
So, you can see I'm drawing this little bean shape right here.
And this part down here is going to be his belly.
So, we're just going to go ahead and quickly put something in like this.
Okay, that's his back.
Now right off of this swoop here, that kind of connects to the back of his head, swoops
down and goes up into his tail.
His tail has these very angular breaks, which are very cool and then, we're going to have
kind of an upside-down version of this raindrop shape right here - that's going to be his
tail.
Alright, so there's his belly.
I'm going to rough in his legs here really quick.
For being a big guy, Pumbaa kind of has skinny, little legs.
He must skip leg day at the gym.
Alright, so we're going to put these little legs in here.
We'll put shapes in for his hooves really quickly.
They're kind of like, I don't know you can think of them as kind of as hearts almost.
The little break in there, can you see that?
Yeah.
This is something that Tony used to do too.
You can draw like a square under your character in perspective and it makes it look like they're
standing on the ground.
It really helps connect them to the earth,
the African Sahara that Pumbaa is on
or the savanna as they said they "clear the savanna."
Oh, I forgot his ears.
Okay, so his ears, I don't know how to describe the shape.
It's an interesting shape.
It starts with this kind of S-curve line and wraps around and then these two lines, this
line is on the underside of this line and creates like form and dimension.
This ear over here is always floppy so we just draw a little floppy ear.
And then let's not forget his head of hair.
There's his little widow's peak here.
It's going to come out this way.
And it's kind of like, a nice, big pompadour hair right here and we'll see that start coming
through and it lines all the way down his back.
This line here on his belly is going to show us where his hair goes.
He has a little change in color on his hair.
So we have -- oh yeah can't forget pupils.
We gotta know where he's looking.
It looks like he's looking at us right now.
Alright, cool.
I think we have a good, rough drawing to go with.
So, we're now going to grab our 4B pencil.
That's this one here.
Is that in camera?
Yeah, it's black.
Alright and now, let's see if I had an eraser I might rub this down a little bit, but I
don't have one with me now so we're just going to go ahead and tie it down.
Now, in the tie down phase, what you want to try and do is not trace the drawing but
you want to try redraw those shapes and maybe add a little more solidity to them as you
go.
So, let's go ahead and start... where should we start?
Let's start with his, well, let's start with nose.
So we're gonna remember this shape that's wrapping around there.
Draw the nostrils.
Remember one is smaller than the other because it's going away in space.
The tip of his nose is round, round it off a little bit.
He's got nice round shapes all throughout his design.
I think it helps make him very friendly and kind.
He's also a rather smart pig.
I mean, warthog.
If you guys have seen the movie then you know he is very aware of what a star is.
That's my dog trying to get into the room if you heard that scratching.
Here we go.
Now for his eyes, it's a very important area.
We're going to darken the top part of the lid, come around and that line can be a little
thicker than the other one.
The top line can be thicker than the bottom.
Cool. Let's go ahead and darken those eyes in.
We're going to try to leave a little glint of white just something that hasn't quite
filled in.
I'm not sure that you can see it on there, but it adds to his friendliness and charm.
Here we go, we're going to shade in this part of the nostril.
Now you can really see how you can look straight up his nose.
Here we go, down into the wart.
Here's his brows.
Cool.
Now here's that ear we were talking about.
These somewhat complex wrapping of shapes.
Here we go, okay.
So we're going to do this chin in here next.
Now this line right here, this is his little double chin.
It's pressing into his body.
Alright, here's his back, up to his tail.
Now on his tail, we're going to do something to this shape.
We're going to break this shape up a little bit with these little wispies.
Those wispies are little pieces of hair.
So, it gives it a little more form and dimension and brings in some organic qualities into
the drawing.
There's his hair, mane of hair going down his back.
Draw his shoulder right here,
elbow down into his ankle
and those hooves like this.
So, from this side we might not really see the shoulder, so we can just go straight down
to the leg and ankle.
That's Penny.
She likes to bark at things.
Sometimes she doesn't stop.
Alright, now over here, we're going take this line that we drew that was the hair
or the color separation on his belly.
We're going to add some of those
whispies on this side too.
That right there makes it look like fur on him.
Okay, well I think we're about done.
Actually, I'm going to shade in his tail.
I'm going to add some shading on the hair.
You can choose to shade this in if you want to on your drawing.
You can color it in if you want to color it in.
You can do whatever you want. It's your drawing.
Have fun with your drawing.
If this was moving a little too fast for you,
you can pause it because it's YouTube!
You can come back to it.
Oh, last thing!
Let's add something to this ground.
Let's put our pencils to the side.
You can lay it flat like this and you can add some shading in here.
This is called a drop shadow.
So it looks like he's on the ground.
And because we know Pumbaa lives in the savanna,
you could put little rocks
and little blades of grass just like this.
And then you could write a little message to people
say,
"Hakuna Matata."
And sign your work.
Done!
Alright, well that's it guys!
Thanks for joining me while we draw everyone's favorite, loveable warthog Pumbaa.
Hope you had a good time. I know I did!
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TTFN! Ta ta for now!