Hello artist friends. My name is Marc Smith and I was a story
artist on the movie Tangled. And today I'm going to show you
how I draw Rapunzel.
Okay, so the first thing I like to do is to start by drawing a
sphere
and putting some sort of cross lines on there. And I say a
sphere because we want to think about this in three dimensions.
Then about on that cross line, we'll start to put the eyes
just sort of rough them out.
Want to make sure they're fitting on top of that sphere,
and I'm just drawing lightly right now.
About halfway between
the eyes and where the chin is going to be, is the nose.
So just going to rough out where these eyebrows are going to sit halfway between the
nose and the chin is the mouth.
So again, just keeping it nice and loose and light
down,
the jaw line, the jaw line sits about halfway between the
cranium and the front of the face. So now we're starting
to get starting to see
what
the structure is going to be like.
Really now once we start getting in here, I really start thinking
about what's she feeling.
So I'll make up a little story.
to myself, maybe she is,
Maybe she's looking at Eugene, Saying "I like you Eugene"
"I just don't trust you."
So, having that feeling informs
some of the decisions of
how these
features fit in her expression.
As you're going through it.
I spend a lot of time on the eyes.
Because that's the first place everyone looks.
You say so much with the eyes
Want it to really feel like they're sitting on top of that,
that sphere.
Now just sort of pull out some of the details of the nose,
think about the planes of the nose, little nostril.
And again the mouth.
She's looking at Eugene with a little bit of a "Hmm. Not sure
about you."
and we're just starting to pull out some of the features a
little bit.
Even though we might not see the ear, we should know where it is.
The hair might be covering it. Now, since this is Rapunzel,
hair's such a big part of it.
She has this sort of tuft of hair at the front.
I'm going to start thinking about how her body, how her neck fits on there.
And again like the head, how do we get sort of the big shapes on
there first.
It has these little puffy,
puffy dress on her shoulders and her sleeves.
Again, continuing that hair because she has so much hair.
You can almost always see it whether she's three quarter or
you're looking straight on or there's just a lot of hair.
And think about how her dress, sort of sits on the shoulder. Now we
are getting the main structure of the
drawing,
we can go back in
Maybe
Put in some shadows.
You don't have to do this, but sometimes it's fun.
I like to put in sometimes I'll just put in some stray hairs
really go in.
start to think about
what she's feeling. Gotta feel it
while you're drawing it.
You might feel because she's got a little bit of a smirk here.
It's probably pushing up on the bottom of her eye, the flesh
there. Now's the time to just sort of put those details in.
The hair is kind of bundling up on her shoulder there
a little bit
Getting close
need a little bit of a bottom lip there
you can just keep working those eyes
I like to give her nice dark eyelashes. Because the contrast
is what you're going to look at, the contrast between the dark and
the, and the light.
And I think that's it!
That's my Rapunzel.
I hope this video inspires you to draw and to make art because
the world needs artists just like you.