From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing the nose

Drawing the nose

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing the nose

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- When drawing a nose, I find it's very useful to imagine a line going from the back of the head through the eyeline out into space in front of your head. So if you look at it from the side, you'll see what I mean. It follows the eyeline and out into space. Now some noses droop. So this is of limited use to them, but it still at least trains you to think about the drawing in three dimensions. So let's see what this looks like. Here we have six heads, different noses, and as you can tell this guy on the left definitely that will help because this part of his nose is almost horizontal. Similarly, with this bold nose it's floating bolted right in front of the face, and even this guy here, it's a pointy nose almost like a mouse nose. Others are less so like this fellow here goes down at an angle. This one is maybe able to help with him. This nose is tiny so maybe not, but it's a good device for some designs certainly him, and this one, and that one. So I still think it's a good tool to…

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