From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
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Drawing realistic and stylized mouths
From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
Drawing realistic and stylized mouths
- What I'm going to show you now is the library of more realistic mouth designs for a female and male character. Again, I'm keeping them bald, don't want to draw a lot of hair. I don't want you looking at the hair. We want to focus here on the mouth and the kind of distortions that a more realistic style of mouth can get away with. There's no reason to be intimidated by the fact that this is meant to be real. It's still a cartoon, so the big one to watch is the open mouth, and look at what you can still get away with. You can do extreme range of motions, both in the purse shape, and even like these wide smiles, which are actually quite unnatural if you look at them closely. So, the other thing to notice about this style is that it's more straight lines, and it isn't a round round round. Now the trick with this style and pulling it off is to be a little bolder with the line strokes and if you're timid in any way with this style, you'll end up with a timid looking drawing. So, let's…
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Understanding anatomy4m 4s
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An introduction to drawing eyes11m 31s
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Eyelids, eye blinks, and eyebrows6m 27s
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Drawing realistic eyes3m 23s
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Drawing cartoony mouths13m 57s
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Drawing realistic and stylized mouths6m 56s
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Drawing the nose8m 26s
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Drawing ears3m 37s
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Adding details to build character in a drawing5m 8s
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Drawing hands13m 5s
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Drawing hands: Details, touching hands, and fine points7m 10s
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Drawing hand styles6m 17s
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Feet9m 41s
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Hair and beards12m 34s
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Drawing clothes and flowing materials9m 19s
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Drawing animals15m 22s
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Drawing creatures6m 6s
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Drawing cartoon effects for animation7m 34s
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Drawing objects8m 51s
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