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- Hello everyone, and welcome to the Disney Princess Club.
I'm Lavinia, and I'm here with my friend Amy.
- Hi, Lavinia.
My name's Amy Mebberson, and I'm a Disney artist
and the designer of the Disney Princess
Comics Minis by Hasbro.
And today is very special
because I'm going to be giving you guys
a step-by-step tutorial on how to draw
one of our Comics Minis in her adorable Comics Minis style.
But we've got a bit of a dilemma here, though, don't we?
- Oh, yeah, look at all these.
- Because we have 12 to choose from,
and we don't know what they're gonna be,
because they're blind boxes.
- Maybe you can point to the blind boxes.
- Okay, and you just tell me to stop?
- [Lavinia] Yes.
- All right, let's let the finger decide.
No?
I'll take that as a no.
- Yes, actually, yeah, yeah.
- Oh, all right.
Well, you made the decision, so I will let you open the box.
- Okay.
(both gasping)
Oh, who do we get? - It's Belle.
- Yes, one of my favorites.
I adore Belle.
- One of my favorites as well.
She's got her green dress and her matching bow in the back.
- Mmhmm.
So, we're gonna get started drawing now, so let's get going.
So the first thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna grab our red pencil,
and this is what we're gonna use
to just start and build some shapes to work with.
So we're gonna start with a circle,
and it doesn't have to be a perfect circle.
And this is just something
that everything else is gonna build out from.
Because a good drawing, especially of a face,
you usually need to do a little bit of ground work first
to establish where the features are gonna lie.
And then we are going to put a line down the middle there.
Yep, that's looking great so far.
Put a line down the middle there,
just to show where the nose and the mouth are gonna sit.
And then we're gonna put a line kind of in the middle,
maybe just below the middle,
so it's like we're drawing a cross
through the middle of our circle here like that.
The first thing I like to do is the nose,
and the nose sits below that middle line.
And it's just a little, you can just imagine
a little circle there, and that's kind of what the shape.
That just helps you suggest the shape of the nose.
Like most princesses, Belle has a fairly delicate nose.
So we're gonna start.
Again, the eyes are kind of a lemon shape,
if you can imagine that, with one corner on this side
and her eyelashes on the other side here.
You're just kind of gonna join them together like that.
So it's like an oval with a point on each end.
So one corner is the corner of her eye,
and the other corner is where her eyelash is going to sit.
So Belle has kind of upturned cat-like eyes.
Some princesses have round eyes;
some have kind of almond eyes.
Let's put a nice, strong line where her upper eyelid goes,
and it just goes up to a couple of eyelashes
on the end like this, nothing too fancy.
You know, Belle's just a country girl.
That's looking good so far.
Yep, looking great. - Thank you.
- Okay, so we're gonna do her mouth,
and again, the mouth kinda sits below the thing.
Now, Belle has a beautiful Cupid's bow mouth.
She's got a very soft mouth.
So you're kind of almost going to do a curve like this.
Can you kinda see that?
So you start with that center line you drew,
and you just pop the lines of the mouth out from each side.
And she's got very full lips.
Now, the top lip follows the same
as the line you just drew for her mouth.
So you can see her top lip coming together,
and she's got a big, full bottom lip.
She's got very full lips, Belle does.
So she's got quite a lot of full bottom lip.
So you can take the bottom lip
quite a way down here, like that.
And you can use your red pencil
to kinda fill that in a bit like that.
So you can see Belle's mouth
starting to come together there.
Okay, now we're going to just go again,
following this center line.
The chin is gonna sit
just below the edge of that circle that we drew.
Okay, now Belle has got a beautiful cheek line here as well.
So we're going to bring out to the side there
and just curve it gently.
It's gonna flatten out a little bit.
All right, so now we're moving into her cheek line here.
So it does kind of pop out a bit at the side
and then comes down to the bottom,
and the same on the other side.
So it's kind of like the bottom of a heart.
- Yeah.
- But instead of a point at the bottom,
it's kind of more of a smoothed off.
So the first thing is we're gonna pop her eyebrows in,
just so we know where they are.
We can tighten these a little later.
So they're just gonna go above her eyes.
Remember, they start thick in the middle,
and this is just a construction line.
We can thicken these a little later on.
So this is just so we know where they are on her face.
Okay, and we can quickly rough in
where her eyeballs are gonna go as well.
That looks great, yep.
So again, we're just gonna do two circles inside her eyes
which will indicate her eye direction.
- So, you say that Belle's
one of your all-time favorite princesses.
- Mmhmm.
- Why is that?
- [Amy] Well, because Belle was happy
being on her own with her books.
- [Lavinia] Yes.
(Amy laughs)
- [Amy] That's all she wanted.
- [Lavinia] She was super happy.
- She did say she wanted adventure
in the great wide somewhere,
but until she got that, she could get that in her books,
'cause that is the great thing about books.
They will take you on adventures.
Now, Belle's hairline.
So we're gonna go up here to the top of the circle.
Now, Belle has one of the most iconic hairlines
of any Disney princess.
I remember when I was a kid
when Beauty and the Beast came out, I just wanted her hair
so badly. (Amy laughs)
Again, if you think of it like a heart,
she's got two curves up the top first
which are gonna come down towards her cheek like that.
So this is the top curve.
This is the top of her hair.
So again, you can kind of think of it as a fat heart.
Belle's hair has a very, very specific shape.
- [Lavinia] Super cool.
- [Amy] I'm trying to break this down as simply as I can.
So we've made these two starting curls here.
Now I'm just going to indicate where her ears would go.
Now, her hair kind of partly covers her ears up.
So, most ears are going to sort of sit over that middle line
you drew, so half on top, half on bottom kind of thing.
- [Lavinia] Oh, okay.
- [Amy] It's more just a hint,
'cause her hair is going to wrap around her ears.
So what I'm actually also gonna do is I'm going to bring
this little part here just down a little further.
So, there we go, yeah.
And so again, you get this overall heart kind of effect.
Her hair is actually kind of wrapped.
It's kind of all wrapped around her head.
So we can just take a line here
and just join it up like that, can you see?
And that just creates the effect of making it look
like the hair is rolling and curling back.
Now, the next part, this is kind of a cheeky trick.
So see here where we've ended her hair?
We're gonna have it wrap.
So we're gonna continue that line like that.
Can you see what I'm doing there?
- [Lavinia] Oh, yeah.
- [Amy] Yeah.
And that's gonna help us shape
where the bottom of her hair is going to go.
So it just kind of comes out
and kind of points towards where her neck's gonna go.
Then we're gonna finish that with another line like that.
So again, the top of the heart
and just carry the line around like that.
And that's gonna create the impression, you can see,
of these lovely wrap effect that Belle has with her hair.
You can just kind of smooth these outer lines out
and just kind of join everything together
like it's one big shape, like that.
There we go, excellent.
That looks great.
- Thank you. - That looks awesome.
Now, we're gonna add a little bit of hair
at the top of her head as well.
So again, her hair is quite thick,
so the top of her head would actually be up here somewhere.
So we're gonna draw a line between the two,
and you can imagine a circle around here.
So you'll see a little top of her head there
and a little bit of the side there like that,
just on that one side, beautiful.
- [Lavinia] Oh, okay.
- [Amy] It gives her a little bit of extra volume
for her head, 'cause her head was a little bit small.
Now, we should put her neck in.
So again, the neck is gonna go just at the bottom here,
just two slightly straight lines, a little bit curvy,
and then we're gonna do a deep V here,
'cause she's wearing a scarf around her,
it's called a fichu in French history.
- [Lavinia] Oh, really?
- It's like a little scarf, yeah.
All right, so just to fill that in,
we're just going to draw some circles
around the outside and join it together like that.
So it's kind of like the white collar of her blue dress.
But we can also make it a scarf.
We can just put some little lines in the middle there,
just to make it look like a scarf.
You can see, it's coming together there.
You could draw a little ruffle
around the edge like this if you like.
Now, what would Belle be without her bow?
- Oh, yeah. - A bow for her ponytail.
And the bow, it's at the back,
so you're not really gonna see it.
You're really just going to see the edge of it.
So it'll be two triangles in the back like this.
But you're not really gonna see it.
You're just gonna see the edge of the triangles like that.
And again, you're only gonna see
a little bit of her ponytail,
so I'm just going to do a swoosh,
just a little swoosh curl around like that.
You don't even have to finish the end,
but it's just to show that her ponytail's back there.
All right, so I think that's all we're gonna do
for our construction right now.
So we're going to put that down.
I'll let you finish there. - Got it.
- You are doing really, really well.
- Thank you.
- 'Cause Belle is actually not easy to draw.
So if you're keeping up, you're doing great.
So we're gonna grab just a black pencil or a marker
or whatever you've got, it could be a biro,
and we're gonna just go over the lines
we've drawn to darken them.
- [Lavinia] Oh, okay.
- [Amy] You're drawing yourself a final outline,
and if you had an eraser,
you could go in and just get rid of these bits here
and these bits which helped you build it.
And we're gonna leave these up now
so you can see how we got to where we did.
So as you can see now, I'm adding in her pupils,
which are just circles
inside those other circles that we did before,
and you can just go in and press really hard
with your pencil and just color those in black.
Now, a good thing to bring your eyes to life
is to put a highlight in there,
which is a little dot of light,
which is a circle drawn
between the two circles you just drew.
That just brings the eyes to life,
and then, especially once you color around the eye.
You color around and fill in the iris,
and then that really pops.
And Belle has beautiful hazel eyes,
so not too dark.
And then we can just go in and start,
you can just go in with your pencil
or you could switch over, again, to a marker
or a colored pencil or something
and just fill in her beautiful brown hair.
Yeah.
So another thing Belle has I've got to put in there
is her little, she's always got that little stray lock,
little stray bit of hair
that keeps falling down in her eyes.
- [Lavinia] Oh, yeah.
- The most important message of Beauty and the Beast
is of course, you know, beauty's only skin deep.
You can never judge a book by its cover, right?
- Never.
- [Amy] No.
- [Lavinia] She didn't judge the Beast about his cover,
and she was very faithful.
- [Amy] I mean, he wasn't a very nice guy at the start.
He really wasn't.
- [Lavinia] Oh, yeah.
But she.
- [Amy] She hung in there!
- [Lavinia] Yeah, and she believed
that he was a really good person.
- [Amy] Yeah, I mean, she's a beauty,
but a funny girl,
but she's also tricky to draw.
And as you're seeing with her hair,
there are lots of overlapping shapes.
But you have to kind of think
what are the shapes you start with,
and then you join 'em together.
Oh, that's looking good, yes, yes.
- Thank you.
- That's definitely coming together.
That's coming together now, mmhmm.
So I think we're kind of getting close to done here.
- [Lavinia] Yeah, I think so too.
- Think so too?
I think we are done.
Well done.
This was a tough one today.
- I had a lot of fun though.
- Thank you, and you did an awesome job.
And we know you guys did too,
so thanks for sticking with us.
- Thank you for teaching us how to draw Belle.
- You're welcome.
- And you can catch our other how to draw videos,
and we will see you next time.
- Bye! - Bye.
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