From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
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Hair and beards
From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
Hair and beards
- Now I'm going to talk about hair. And hair is best thought of as a single mass, like one continuous object. Do not think about it as being thousands and thousands of individual hairs or you will lose your mind. So in this case what I have is a man with a short sensible haircut on the top and a woman with a shoulder length sensible haircut on the bottom. Both quite similar physically. And as you can see the major shapes and forms have been dealt with like they're one object, so we have the most of his hair is up here in one big triangular shape. And likewise with her we just have added the sides. So let's see how we would apply his shape to this profile. And it's good to have a three dimensional idea of the hair. So what I'm going to do is make a clean layer and just with a red line, so we can see precisely what's going on I'm going to make some strokes. His hair will look I think very similar to hers from this angle, I would think it would be probably something like this. The major…
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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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