Hey everyone!
it's time to draw something so grab your sketchbooks if you'd like
to draw along and let's draw something
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so the otherday, I was actually trying to film a video where I was going to use
watercolors so I kind of designed a character and then drew them on
watercolor paper and I actually had a separate one where I tried to draw this
girl character on watercolor paper then I was trying to color it and ....[hesitate]
watercolors to me just, I don't know, they always look so muddy. it looks like I
just grabbed mud and like [mud squishing noise]
tried to make art with it but I thought why not,
sweat equity, use some of these designs that I've created and turn the page, if
you will, - I just think this character kind of looks like pokemon
trainer I don't know what it is - I've been kind of experimenting with a
slightly different style I saw someone draw a character with
these huge ears and something just clicked in my head that "oh whenever I draw
huge ears they look weird but this person drew them like lower on the head
and it just looked adorable" and then I realized every person that I've ever
looked at who drew big ears did this - I was like "I
want to try that" so that's what's going on right here
we've got a little beach boy [Aruba...Jamaica..ooooo]
I'm not sure what you want to draw but I'm thinking I'd like to draw some
more almost pokemon trainer NPC character designs so like that one
would be like a swimmer - what's another one? oh how about youngster that's
a fun one
they always have their baseball cap flipped around you know we
can draw a boy and a girl version of them so what I really like about Pokemon
art, the characters at least, is that they always seem, they're standing there but
it also feels like they're alive because there's some kind of motion to them
that's something I'd like to try and capture when I'm drawing them
these are kind of supposed to be characters of mine (not in the Pokemon Art Style)
big mouth, big eyebrows
I forgot to
draw the pose what am I thinking?
i always draw like an upside down
triangle for the crotch region
it helps me get a good grasp that legs need to poke
out in there you know?
ooh what if he's got one foot up like they're running
towards adventure!
now one thing I'm looking at this I wanted it to be a
youngster character, right? the body
proportions aren't quite where they need to be so I'm going to shrink the legs
shrink all the limbs really I think that will help
so like pull the knee up higher and this knee up higher
did that make him look
younger? do you see do you see how that like instantly kind of solved that problem?
we're gonna have to color these oo I
want to grab my markers - ooohh
[whispers:] but i drew this on the back of a page I like...
[quiet artistic moan]
we'll figure something out
I'm not gonna look at
these youngsters I'm gonna try and do my best to kind of just use the knowledge I
already have or ideas that I want to pursue without actually looking directly
at any of the Pokemon characters and of course it's gonna be my own style too so
trying to be very loose with the pose cuz if you're too stiff with the sketch
the lineare ain't gonna get looser let me just tell you that
the legs feel awkward to me if I pull this one down like more lined with the body?
now I kind of want to pull this leg even further out
it's still very squished but we have a
lot of paper left so let's move on to the character design we can work on
poses when we get to some more characters
need that little hole in the Hat
got the brim of the Hat or the bill that's what it's called: a bill
sometimes I just need hand motions and the words come to me
sometimes they don't though I
definitely want to go like really simple because it's obviously a kid right? they
don't have a lot of money in the fashion budget so maybe just a t-shirt maybe
even one that's a little big like it's a hand-me-down okay
[excited] see how it's loose on the body like wind is a'blowing
oh maybe we can put that
really simple design where it's the stripe where you see it in like movies
and cartoons but I've never seen it in real life, one of those
should I give him
little shorts? 80s? oh!!! what if he's like 80s themed?
I want to look up like stranger things or something
why would you tuck in your t-shirt into your sweatpants?
I don't want to spend
forever looking at Pinterest even though I could
let's just go with that first
80s thought I had with the shorter shorts, the long socks
ooh here's a good
foot! is it? wait... never really know until you take a step back
that is what a fist look like
youd think I'd figure it out eventually
thinking longer hair
I forgot the
draw his nose! - let's try to draw like the girl version in the Pokemon universe
of this NPC like a counterpart so like the same age same, Pokemon type ,character
you know you know I'm talking about
I always find drawing feminine characters
a lot easier because I've drawn so many of them it can be fun if we kind of keep
that leg up see that triangle shape figure out where the hips are this is
kind of a similar pose now looks like I made her legs way longer than his legs
and I kind of want to keep the proportions similar so I'll bring that down
probably means I'll bring this foot up as well
okay the shoulders are a little different
let's just redraw that whole head maybe we'll even turn her
head so they're not looking the same way
and those ears [giggles]
just experimenting with the style a
little bit it's always funny when I see someone trying to recreate my style
because I can see them struggling because my art style just seems so out
of all over the place because I'm like always experimenting with it, trying to
find the one I like the best and how will you know until you've tried them
all, right?
I'm kind of hoping you know how when you like when you zoom in on a
grid you can see it's like bouncing up and down like this on a graph but if you
like zoom out and look at the trends over time it's like little tiny bumps
that's what I'm kind of hoping for my art style eventually it'll all kind of
look like a little bumps
maybe I just haven't found that thing
that's mine yet
lets give her a hat too why not
should I make them as similar as possible, little short pony tail, turn her
hat so it's forward so that it's not too similar [to the male character]
can't decide if I want the eyes huge
or kind of normal sized and just the ears huge - she's looking at him like
she likes him [laughs]
so it looks like we could maybe go the
oversized clothes and mom jeans route for her
where is this arm?
might actually lower her leg it's too similar [to the other characters pose]
maybe down here ish
yeah I like that better
I don't want her to be like a copycat you know it's
definitely not historically accurate [lol] just inspired you know?
I think we need
more exaggeration in the clothes they're not quite conveying what I'm looking for
here need to pull the mom Jean up even higher, it looks like it fits her too well
oh yeah yeah like that better
see we're exaggerating the shapes by
shrinking this, this section looks larger and that creates that contrast and now
everything just looks larger overall - I'm getting 'We're Back' vibes I don't know if
any of you have seen that and I don't even think the characters dressed
like this but there's a boy and a girl
add some pattern to the pants oh and she's
got to have that short under hair bit that doesn't make it into the ponytail
yuuus
I love that stuff
there we go these look like sneakers to you?
I also gave her some big socks it just felt right
there we go, got our youngsters
they look little older than maybe I was going for- can't decide if I want to color
these or not? don't want to ruin the art on the other page
yeah why don't I
go and do this this isn't usually that fun to watch so we'll probably skip to when
it I'm done
yeah yeah I think that's all of it for her, now do I want to continue
with the dude over here
Circle them on the page so you know that's where the art is
just don't know if I have the colors that I want for this - here I
use this thing! this is the perfect blue for her like I already know
I didn't even have to swatch it
a nice light wash denim
some designs up here in the same color - there we go and that's how you
color something without coloring it too much where you might accidentally mess
up you know (I'm pretty much a pro at that) half trying you know
let's try to
draw them again much as I'd like to do another one I'm not crazy about his
character design yet so let's just draw them standing still looks that's
something I feel like I've gotten better at make sure we get these proportions
correct - could even try to make them look younger while we're at it
let me make his
shirt oversized as well
hehe he looks so weirded out
shoes
see how this pose is just so
less-so much less fluid? still fun to draw but it just doesn't have that...
[trying to find the word]
pizazz!, you know?
that stripe would probably be curved a little bit since
this shirt doesn't fit properly right?
dirty knees
we'll draw her next to him, we
can figure out what her design looks like more: big huge pants, high-wasting..?
high-waisted!
oh her hats it's hard to draw baseball caps head on like that,
big shirt
oh look at them next to each other I love how there's similarities in their
design but they're not like identical twins or anything, not wearing the same
exact clothes
drawing her a little cross-eyed makes her look younger doesn't it?
I forgot how much I
like to draw just characters flat on the ground you know he looks a little animal
crossing to me usually the both kind of do - I think it's those simple shapes I
was trying to use
drawing head-on is very difficult for me
can't even see their ears :(
her head a lot smaller than his?
what happened here?
oh there we go the hat was too small
got it
look how cute they are my wittle youngsters
I'm gonna try
draw them again but even like more shorter proportions see if I can get
them to look even younger so why don't you just draw the
exact same picture below right here see how I can shortened like the torso
maybe even widen the limbs a little - is tah gonna look too young?
too chibi maybe?
I need some practice drawing kids
now does this actually look younger or not
or do they just look like they have shorter proportions? shorten her proportions
maybe make the legs a little longer [laughs] I don't know why this amuses me so much
so now they both have large shirts but they're not like the same so that's
probably fine
they still seem different enough I like
the idea of her having dark socks with white sneakers -- I think they actually do
look younger!
hey!~ :)
I've got a play with those proportions so now they're like
what one, two, three, four heads tall and here they are one, two, three, four, and
three quarters?
here they were one two three four yeah so these were pretty
similar I really like the way his hair starting to turn out
funny the more you
draw them , you kind of like find shortcuts to draw certain things and when you do that
it simplifies it and usually it's more what I'm looking for because when you
first try sometimes you're you know trying too hard and it's just you're
trying to force out an idea that you have in your head instead of just
letting it evolve on the paper
I could try coloring these ones since there's
nothing on the other page right?
just quickly add some line art to them
[or slowly]
almost done
grab some markers here we have a lot of
swatching space to see if I like the colors or not before we throw them in there
think i should look at some more references here for colors they're either really
bold colors or pastel there's like no in-between
so maybe just some bold like fluorescent colors I do have highlighters wait I
have Ohuhu markers and these ones are actually straight-up fluorescent colors
I think these might work really well in this
if we use these with some like
really dark colors - we got like a pink and orange so another pink maybe that one
supposed to be red that's definitely pink
I kind of pictured him having red
shorts maybe like this Prawn color whoops I just colored him in - he could be
like red and navy blue and she could be like light blue and fluorescent pink
it's kind of like taking that same color families and and playing around with
them or I could make him light blue and fluorescent pink and her red and blue
but just when she I was drawing her I saw the pants as being that like light
pastel blue so that might be more fun although he could look good with the
pastel blue in the red too
maybe I'm putting too much thought into
this it's just a sketchbook page hmm I know I want her pants to be blue
so I'm gonna go ahead and do that
perfect that's kind of exactly how I
picture that and then I saw these socks as like a dark purple, but we might want
to go pink so we limit the color scheme or let me try RV66 that's kind of
exactly what I pictured
let's do it
I'm wanted the sneakers to be
white so if she's light blue and like purple he can be Red and that dark blue
why don't we use -- (this was b04 that I used for that? yes it was) -- use that for this
and if I don't like it I can darken it up with something a little less saturate
for the shirt I haven't decided if I want it to be white yet maybe red why
not and then one of the stripes can be white - oh and one of those stripes can be
blue too, - I don't know if I said that I
kind of wish that I'd use the same color scheme for both of them now that I'm
doing this I can already kind of see how it's gonna look
I think for hair I'm gonna mix the red and the blue together to get like a
black or a grey that fits into the color scheme
and either the hat will be blue or
red? good question.
I think we'll go red I don't want to go even on the red and the
blue - might as well make one color stand out a bit more
nothing's more boring in art
than equal parts of everything you know?
grab that florescent pink and draw
some shapes
this reminds me of a Barbie I had - oo! we could use [grabs marker] this for shading
the shirt kind of a pink light pink and then I'm gonna color in the Hat with the
fluorescent pink and then use that purple for shading it -- I could have made
her hair this fluorescent pink - that would have been fun - for her skin i'm layering
E70 and R21 and I want try layering more skin tones instead of
using them straight out of the marker gives you a lot more options you know I
could give them the same hair color? right now they look so different I'm not
crazy about it so maybe further on down the road when I try to do maybe more of
these I'll try and use the same color schemes for both characters but with
like you know little variations because just having this color difference - I'm not
that crazy about it
i'm thinking a brown hair might be pretty
probably layer it
into something
I could use a white gel pen cuz I accidently colored in the eyes a little
I like her design it turned out a lot better - I like the color scheme
him-- next to each other there I didn't use the right colors I don't think
well I accomplish one goal of making them look younger definitely I'm
definitely happy about that
I wanna make her hair darker it's not enough
contrast wait wait wait wait
yeah I think I like that a lot better - i'm also gonna put a little fluorescent pink on top see
what that looks like just maybe bring the color scheme closer
together -- I quite like them I want to like recolor him you know what what
happens if I just use that RV66 and color on top of the red? will that bring
our color schemes closer together?
not sure if that helped - can't say I made a worse either
so indecisive
at least try one last thing here -
boy version
girl version
if I can remember what the colors were okay
whatever it doesn't need to be perfect
this is not my usual order of operations
all right now for our male character, make this whole shirt purple
maybe
as well as his hat
all right I like the color scheme better I don't
really care for the drawing [laughs]
so that's cool
i don't know where this rubber band came from...
so here we have my
"youngster" characters inspired by the NPC youngsters in Pokemon games over the
years obviously with my own spin on it
it's more like a prompt word than anything
else, but I kind of would like to do this for some of the other NPCs in Pokemon
design my own
kind of like I did the swimmer dude over here so feel free
to let me know what your favorite NPC is and maybe I can do them next next time I
kind of just enjoy the process of creating a character even if I didn't do
a lot of trial and error with this one I kind of just stuck with what I liked and
then kind of tweaked some things( well I guess that's the same thing isn't it?)
anyway I wanna thank you guys for watching and for drawing along and I'll
see you guys all next week and I hope you have a delicious evening full of
waffles!
BYE!
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