- Who put the (karate noises) K in karate?
- Hello, I'm Pinkie, I'm the storyboard revisionist
on SpongeBob SquarePants and Kamp Koral,
and today I'm going to be showing you
how to draw Sandy Cheeks.
(upbeat music)
- I don't know why, but I think
I'll kick SpongeBob's butt tomorrow.
- So first things first when we start a new drawing,
it's great to plan out the drawing and thumbnail it.
A thumbnail sketch is little tiny sketch
that you do either on the corner of your sheet of paper,
on a piece of scrap paper or on a Post-it Note.
It helps yous plan out what the drawing
is going to look like.
And this is where you get to make
all of those simple mistakes,
plan out poses, worry less about all the details
and worry more about proportions,
where everything goes, what expressions you want
the characters to have etcetera etcetera.
So I'm gonna go ahead and do my thumbnail sketch right now.
(sketching sounds)
Right, now that my thumbnail sketch is done,
I put it in the corner so I can reference it
when I am doing my sketch.
Now, this point, if you're following along at home,
get a light pencil, sketch very lightly.
So the first thing we're gonna work on is Sandy's face.
Her head is shaped like, kinda like Squidward's head
upside down, but its like an upside down mushroom.
And she has, little round eyeballs that sit right
in between that cheek and forehead area.
- SpongeBob.
(screaming)
- And her eyes kinda have a slight overlap
but they don't overlap each other too too much.
And she's got big round pupils.
Its also got little triangular nose here,
and we're gonna draw in her big smile
just like I drew in my thumbnail sketch.
And give her her big old buck teeth.
And she has cute little pizza slice ears.
So now we're gonna draw her helmet,
and her helmet is pretty big and circular.
Its gotta give her some room
to move her head around and breathe.
(toilet flushing noise)
You draw a little oval where the helmet connects
with her spacesuit.
Gonna erase some of the messy lines
so you can see a little bit better.
Her spacesuit, you can kinda see the inside of it,
and that's the purpose of that oval.
'Cause its pumped full of air, 'cause Sandy
can't breathe underwater,
she's a land squirrel.
- (splashing) SpongeBob, Patrick?
- So she's gotta wear the spacesuit
when she's underwater so she can breathe air.
And when I draw her body,
her body is like a can of soup.
And just go ahead draw in her arms.
- If you want arms like these.
- Draw her hand where its gonna be holding the rope.
And go ahead and draw her other arm.
Right, so now we're gonna draw the lasso.
Gotta make sure she has enough room to swing it.
(panting)
- (screaming) SpongeBob! (explosion)
Now I've never thrown a lasso before so,
this could be entirely wrong.
Gonna draw her legs which are thinner
than her arms because her arms
are more a part of the spacesuit, the sleeves,
and her legs kinda like if
she's wearing pants or leggings, they're not as bulky.
Now I'm gonna draw the boots.
But her boots are kinda like she put her feet
in tissue boxes, they're very geometric.
They're not like cowboy boots, they're space boots.
And Sandy has gone to space.
(jetpack going up)
Big tail, its very curly Q.
And she has a flower on top of her helmet.
And it kinda shoots out to the camera
a little bit, it faces us.
All right, so now I'm gonna start cleaning up my sketch
and making a finalized version.
- Now this is what I call a rodeo.
So on her spacesuit she has a zipper
that goes down the middle
and its gonna be slightly off from the middle
because she's bent over right now.
Can see the metal zipper up on the top.
And she has a little patch here that has an acorn on it.
- [Sandy] See?
- And then normally its a perfect square
but 'cause she's bent over a little bit,
I made it a little bit bent as well,
to go with the rest of her body.
Lets focus on these fists for a second,
you're not gonna see her fingers or anything
'cause she's wearing a glove.
So draw her hands as if you draw your hands
if you have mittens on and one way I have done it before
is I've put a sock over my hand
and looked at how my own hand looks
and used my hand to pose everything out.
All right, so now we're gonna draw the lasso.
And its gonna connect right here, the knot.
I'm gonna use a skinnier line to draw it.
First part is easy, we're just gonna draw
a big, looping shape.
Now next part's a little bit trickier
is you take the other side and try to follow along
the same width and keep it the same all the way around.
Now that we've drawn the lasso,
I'm going to show where the rope connects
to her hand where she's holding it.
Maybe it has a few wiggles in it.
Now this part's a little bit tricky,
we're gonna show it come out one side of her hand
and connect to the other hand, like that.
And it's gonna go out that hand
and the rope ends right about here.
So now, when we're going over this,
we have to keep in mind that we are drawing over
our previous drawing and erasing parts where it overlaps.
So you see each place where the rope touches
something else we've already drawn,
we're going to erase it.
And you might wanna just draw everything all the way through
but I promise it looks so much better
when you draw over what you've already drawn
and erase everything else underneath it.
It gives it a lot more depth.
Okay, so now we're gonna draw her bushy tail,
we're drawing it over what we've already drawn.
But try not to let that confuse you too much,
we are gonna do the same thing where we erase things
that overlap and in this case,
you have to look a step back
and think about it for a second,
but her arms go over the tail
'cause the tail is behind the arms.
So you're gonna wanna erase the lines
where the tail meets the arm.
So by erasing that it looks like the arm
is in front of the tail.
Now we're gonna work on the space boots,
remember there's a line right where the leg,
the calf meets the boot.
May have to take a few tries to get
that perfectly round circle, it's pretty tricky.
And on top of the helmet we have her flower.
Which has five petals and the petals
are kind of square but kind of round.
And there's a big oval in the middle.
And there we go, five petals,
and remember it kind of faces us a little bit.
For now we are all done.
(sketching noise)
and that's how you draw Sandy Cheeks.
- That's for yesterday SquarePants!
(Nickelodeon theme tune)