How to Draw & Illustrate

Transcript I’m moving along with celebrity caricatures. I’m gonna do a drawing of John Cena now. And unlike the other caricatures I’ve done I’ve actually had to draw caricatures of John Cena from my work from time to time. So, I’m little more familiar with him. First thing that I notice when I’m looking at …

Transcript So, what I’m drawing now is just a basic circle and this is about as two dimensional as it gets. So, it’s kind of good when you’re drawing shadows to imagine where the light is coming from, because that is going to determine where the shadows fall. So, let’s just imagine we have a …

Transcript So I’m going to draw a cartoon robot. And I think I’ll make him kind of an old-fashioned looking retro-future robot. And just to make it a little more fun, I’ll give him some personality. Let’s try a sad robot. As I’m starting, I’m really just thinking of my ideas as I’m starting to …

Transcript So if you’re watching these videos you’ll probably notice that I tend to sketch in really rough lines, and I don’t worry about the final details. I don’t worry about making the drawing look correct. I just start to sort of play with ideas with really, really rough strokes. One way that I do …

Transcript Sketching is the main way that artists sort of build their drawing muscles and it’s a good idea to just sketch constantly and to just sketch everything around you. You don’t need to wait until you’re sitting in a figure drawing class with a model sitting there holding up a bowl of fruit to …

Transcript A lot of cartoon characters are constructed on very, very simple shapes, because that’s how animators can keep them consistent from scene to scene. His whole body might essentially be constructed of two simple ovals, because when you’re drawing animation, the first thing you have to do is draw those two ovals and as …

Transcript So now we’re going to talk about secrets of drawing cartoon characters. And in another video I created this quick cartoon elephant, but I didn’t just draw him straight out, I constructed him from simple shapes in three dimensional space. So now I’ve got this character, who for me, exists in this kind of …

Transcript Hi. My name’s Kevin Kobasic. I’m a full time illustrator, cartoonist and story board artist. My primary business is story boarding for ad agencies, but I also do character design for animation studios. I’ve drawn comics for Marvel. I do a lot of illustrations for WWE and various other clients. I’ve been drawing my …

Transcript So, a lot of people want to know how to go about becoming a professional artist. And the one thing that I’ve learned overall is that there’s not necessarily a clear career path to doing it. And the most important thing is to draw and draw and draw constantly and get really good. And …

Transcript So I just finished drawing a skull, and now I’m going to show you how that shape related to drawing a face. Again, I’m going to start out drawing sort of a loaf of bread shape, and that gives me the top of my head. And the bottom of my loaf of bread is …

Transcript So now we’re going to talk about how to show movement in drawings. Particularly for drawing comic book characters. Comic books really thrive on a sense of movement and a sense of dynamics. You’re drawing static lines on a two dimensional plane. The two things that don’t exist that you want to give the …

Transcript What I always do is start out with a simple shape. In this case I’m going to draw a mouth from the front. Let’s imagine our character is smiling so I’m going add sort of a curve line that indicates where that smile is going to go and then this oval describes the shape …

Transcript So I’m looking at a picture of Brad Pitt right now that I pulled off the internet. So the first thing that strikes me is how square shaped his head is. He’s got those rugged action movie good looks, action star good looks. So that’s whats jumping out at me is the overall squareness …

Transcript So, a lot of people want to know how to draw skulls because let’s face it, skulls are cool. One really simple way that you can think of a skull is, imagine a loaf of bread that’s sort of rounded on top. And then you add sort of this little triangular shape under it, …

Transcript You don’t try to draw something perfect right off the bat. You really just start scribbling and start having fun and thinking in terms of motion. And so let’s imagine I’m drawing a character running. The first thing I’m always going to do is just get the idea across. Hit it really fast. And …

Transcript Moving on through celebrity caricatures, we’re going to try Justin Bieber now. I’ve never seriously looked at a picture of him in my life, I swear to God. So the first thing I noticed is that his face is a little bit elongated. That shows a photo of him where he’s got some of …

Transcript Whether you’re an illustrator or a comic book artist or an animation artist, you’ll find that figure-drawing is sort of the foundation skill that builds a lot of those other skills. Even animation artists who draw Mickey Mouse kind of characters all day, they go to a lot of figure-drawing classes and they learn …

Transcript Kind of the best thing to do when you’re drawing the nose is to kind of think of how it attaches to the face. So I might think of, right now I’m sort of drawing this triangular shape where it’s just where the nose actually attaches to the face, that sort of flat part …

Transcript So moving on with drawing celebrity caricatures, I’m going to try Katie Perry now. This is as much of a process of exploration for me as it is for you. I’m just going to start, very roughly, blocking in what I see as the structure of her face. What I’m doing right now is …

Transcript For me the best way to start is to think of that you hand it’s sort of a bow. Just kind of start like that, like you can literally just imagine it’s a box. Think of the fingers as just cylinders, the important thing is to just start constructing form simple shapes. You can …

Transcript The misconception is that an eye is just shaped like a football with that eyeball in the center, but of course, it’s much more complicated than that. Imagine this is the center of my face, here. There’s a point here in the middle, so you have this diagonal line and then another diagonal that …