From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing realistic and stylized mouths

Drawing realistic and stylized mouths

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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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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