How To Draw Anthropomorphic Characters PDF
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bought at gumroad.com/mitchleeuwe YYOOUU''LLLL LLEEAARRNN:: How to draw -- ddrraawwiinngg hhuummaann--lliikkee aanniimmaallss How to draw -- ddrraawwiinngg ddiiffffeerreenntt aanniimmaallss aanntthhrrooppoommoorrpphhiicc cchhaarraacctteerrss -- bbaassiiccss ooff ddrraawwiinngg cchhaarraacctteerrss bbyy mmiittcchh lleeeeuuwwee bought at gumroad.com/mitchleeuwe how to draw Copyright © 2021 by Mitch Leeuwe All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof ANThROpoMORPHIC CHARACTERS may not be reselled, reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher. For personal use only mitchleeuwe.nl by mitch leeuwe Printed in the Netherlands First Printing, 2021 Graphic design: Harmke Leeuwe harmke.com 2 3 Hi there! Let me introduce myself. I’m Mitch Leeuwe and am an illustrator from the Netherlands. I always drew a lot as a kid. I even had the childhood dream to become an animator at Disney. During my teenage years, I lost that dream. Luckily, I slowly started drawing more and more. When I was 19, I began to do some freelance work as a graphic designer, which made me consider picking up drawing again. I attended several drawing programs at schools but I learned most from online resources. Now, I’m a freelance artist working on visual development. This means I design characters, props and backgrounds for games, animation and toys. However, you probably know me from my Instagram where I release tutorials and more. My goal is to create a place where people can learn the things I wanted to learn when I started out. 4 5 This ebook is for everyone who wants to learn how to to understand the way I draw and why I draw that way. draw. There are tutorials in it for absolute beginners After that, you can take my characters and draw them up to the more advanced artists. I want to share how I in different poses. The next step would be to create learned to draw the way I do. your own characters. Of course: Do what you love to do, but by studying these drawings and tutorials, you You don’t need a fancy computer or tablet with an would gain skills you can apply to your own original expensive app or software. Paper and pen are actually drawings. Inatbrooudtu tchtiiosn ebook as good. Although I draw a lot on my computer and use it for almost all my client work, I learned how to draw with paper and pencil. I would recommend you draw In this ebook, I’ll talk about how to draw anthropomorphic Anthropomorphic animals are often used for commercials, as much as you can on paper or in a sketchbook. This animals. Anthropomorphic is a somewhat tricky word. games, and animation. Somehow we humans are really is an excellent way of learning how to draw because it Anthropomorphic means the attribution of human traits, drawn to them. This also shows that there are many lets you focus on the fundamentals of drawing. There emotions, and behavior to non-humans. In this ebook, I’ll opportunities for artists to find a job. The world needs us are fewer tricks than on the computer, and it’s way focus on anthropomorphic animals. However, it could also to design these characters and mascots! more straightforward. I would recommend starting apply to plants, objects, and other non-human things. practicing by copying my illustrations step by step. Try 6 7 construction 8 9 how to draw a dog When drawing characters, it's perfect to start with some the mouth and the eyes. At step 5, I add the ears, jaws, basic shapes. Here, I began by drawing a flat circle. In and cheeks, and it starts to look more like a dog now. The step 2, I drew an ellipse inside this circle, making the circle smaller shapes, like the nose, eyebrows, and beak, are appear three-dimensional. In step 3, I added a horizontal added in step 6. Now you have a final sketch you can use ellipse. The dotted line emphasizes that the line is going to make the final drawing, and you can start adding the around and back of the other lines. Notice how this gives colors. an angle to the sphere. exercise As 'man's best friend,' the dog is a very popular character to draw. When I was a kid, a dog actually was one of the first With the next step (4), I start adding shapes on top of the things, after stick figures, I liked to draw the most. In this blog, I'll give you tips on drawing a dog step by step, and I'll ball. Try to think as if you're using clay to sculpt the basic show you how you can apply these steps to draw other animal characters. shapes. Start with the biggest shapes first; in this case, Copy the dog’s head by following the steps in this example. Try to copy it as closely as possible. 10 11 Here are some more complex animal heads, but all created with construction in mind. Other characters The method of using basic shapes can also be useful to create other exercise kinds of characters. Try to draw these characters using the same steps I've shown at the tutorial on Follow the steps of the how to draw a dog. Pay attention drawing of the dog’s to how I build these characters head to break down with really basic shapes. It can be these animal heads to quite hard, but try to draw in three their construction. Can dimensions. you recreate them? 12 13 Other poses The use of these basic shapes makes it easier to draw a character in different poses. This is because it's easier to imagine how a sphere, cylinder, or cube looks when shown at different angles. draw the dog’s body When I'm drawing the whole body, I follow the same principles as when exercise I drew the dog's head. Now, I start with a line of action (see step 1). The action line is simply a line that Practice these techniques by drawing represents the pose. Most of the the examples and follow the steps time, it has a simple S shape. I use I’ve shown you. Draw all the different this line to give the character some shapes in each step. The significant flow. Without the line of action or thing is that everyone can start flow, the pose will look stiff. On top of practicing this. Just use a pencil and this line, I draw the limbs by building paper. construction with basic shapes. 14 15 how to apply this boook This book will show many different characters and share the steps I take to draw these characters. I would encourage you to follow these steps. Try to get as close as you can and try to understand why I did that. This is also how I learned to draw. I studied a lot of art from classic cartoons and tried to understand how they did it. I would encourage you to draw your own characters as well, mainly because it's fun! But you'll really learn by studying art you like, and later you can apply it to your own drawings. 16 17 These are more examples of some hand gestures. Figure out how I used basic shapes to draw these hands. My tip is to practice this and if you want, try to draw some of your own hand gestures. Side note: I use 4 fingers instead of 5 in many of my illustrations because 5 fingers can become a bit too complex. exercise how to draw hands Copy these hands to get used to the construction. When you are comfortable with that, try to draw Drawing with construction makes drawing them in different poses. complex objects (like hands) easier. Hands can look really challenging and Tip: Use your own hands as overwhelming. By breaking them down into reference. basic shapes can truly help to make it more manageable. 18 19
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