From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing creatures

Drawing creatures

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing creatures

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- Many or most of the design principles that you will deal with when drawing animals will apply to any number of different creatures, from the fantastical to the extinct. In this section, we have space aliens, dinosaurs, cloud monsters or creatures, horror creatures, whatever this walking thing is, and robots, so I've tried to include a little bit of everything to show you the, kind of, challenges, and the principles that we have to deal with those challenges are fairly universal, so let's take a closer look at some of these. What I wanted to do was to, just to pull a bunch of typical challenges that you will face from project to project, how to make something that doesn't have human hands at all, would it be possible to get a creature that has no analog to a human anatomy, and how would you go about drawing one of these things? In this case, I think a pretty easy solution to this is just to regard the alien as a big teardrop or a blob, and then you can deploy as many tentacles as you…

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