RODGON THE ARTIST is live!

[00:00:02]How are you all doing today?

[00:00:09]I am an illustrator.

[00:00:11]I'm a cartoonist.

[00:00:12]I am a connoisseur of patterns.

[00:00:17]And understanding how to draw is one of those things that just fascinates me.

[00:00:25]So, >> [cough] [clears throat] >> today I'm going to draw with you guys and teach you a couple things that I've learned in my career that will help you understand things a little easier.

[00:00:44]Hey, yo Johnny. How you doing, brother?

[00:00:49]How are you today?

[00:00:56]Are you doing well?

[00:00:59]It's your birthday.

[00:01:01]No, I want to make sure that I like I hop on here more often than not.

[00:01:07]It's like one of one of the audiences that I just have never really touched into mostly because of inconvenience, but some people are helping me with social media now.

[00:01:17]So, I can focus on the things that I want to focus on, which is like growing the YouTube channel, which is building materials for the book.

[00:01:28]That's why you guys are seeing me draw a lot more digital than I'm doing uh just traditional right now.

[00:01:40]Just got So, >> [clears throat] >> how are you all doing?

[00:01:52]Mhm.

[00:02:01]>> Do you guys have any questions that you guys want to ask? Feel free to ask them.

[00:02:06]Okay, God made 83. Hola Ruth.

[00:02:10]Uh so so if you guys have questions, feel free to ask.

[00:02:15]As we have established, the first people to ask questions are the ones that get their questions answered.

[00:02:25]So let's focus on asking some fun things, shall we?

[00:02:33]How to draw noses?

[00:02:35]Well, noses are actually quite easy.

[00:02:37]Uh noses can be done a couple different ways, but I like to do it this way the best.

[00:02:44]Okay?

[00:02:45]The big old nose.

[00:02:47]Noses.

[00:02:49]Okay?

[00:02:50]So this part right here, draw any shape that you want to draw for a head, any shape.

[00:02:56]Let's stay with something like this for now.

[00:02:58]Draw a triangle.

[00:03:01]Draw a dot so you can create a little pyramid.

[00:03:05]If you do that, you get the bottom of your nose and you get the nose bridge.

[00:03:14]So learning how to draw your noses sometimes isn't really all that difficult.

[00:03:20]Learning to draw the shape of the nose comes from a triangle and a dot.

[00:03:26]If you learn to do that, you have access to the bottom of your nose and the side where the nostril's going to be.

[00:03:39]Okay? So a nose can be any shape.

[00:03:43]Triangle, dot.

[00:03:45]Change the shape, you're going to change the shape of the look of the character.

[00:03:52]Okay?

[00:03:53]It doesn't have to be very difficult to make it effective.

[00:04:06]So, you don't have to struggle very much when you're drawing it. But, it's very easy to draw them just floating around.

[00:04:11]But, whenever you're drawing them on a head, focus on the little triangle so that you can understand the basics.

[00:04:23]That little triangle, if you follow it down, you get your mouth and your chin.

[00:04:29]If you follow it up, you get your eyebrows.

[00:04:37]If you follow your nose nostril up, you get your eye.

[00:04:47]So, the nose itself, if you point it in a different direction by drawing the dots differently, you can change the whole structure of the face.

[00:05:02]>> [cough and clears throat] >> Uh let's see.

[00:05:06]How do you have a question regarding hips from low or high angles? Okay. So, hips.

[00:05:13]So, that's noses. We'll go back to noses if we ever go back to noses.

[00:05:18]Okay, hips. So, the hips are going to be connected to the rule of three.

[00:05:24]So, if we're going to do uh any shape, just draw a shape and then divide it into three.

[00:05:31]The hips connect to the bottom of the third.

[00:05:34]A compass attached to the top.

[00:05:38]This gives you access to something akin of like a checkerboard.

[00:05:47]Right? The bottom hips and the middle part of your crotch, your head or your neck, and then two sides of your body.

[00:05:57]So, whenever we were drawing things in space, we need to account for those parts.

[00:06:03]So, let's take into consideration this compass and this hip.

[00:06:08]If I draw the compass and I draw the hip bones behind it, whenever we're drawing your head, that's the size of my head.

[00:06:22]My arms and everything would go down, so you wouldn't really see much.

[00:06:27]And then you'd see my feet.

[00:06:36]So, from the bottom, you don't really have anything to worry about. It's mostly just a compass.

[00:06:42]Right? That compass is going to cover most of what your body's going to do.

[00:06:50]All right.

[00:07:00]Whenever we're drawing other type of characters that you want to draw, regardless of how it is you want to do it, we just have to find the fly and the hip bones.

[00:07:18]Okay?

[00:07:20]You can do that in any direction.

[00:07:25]And you can play around with a lot of flexibility thanks to So, the hips in general, from the bottom, they're seen like that, and then see a compass above it.

[00:07:44]Your feet go into your ankle, to your belly. You just see the bottom of the pants.

[00:07:55]And then, maybe your feet.

[00:08:03]So, I don't know if you're like going that drastic. If you're not going that drastic, that's still going to be a very easy way to be able to distinguish perspective.

[00:08:21]Mhm. Sensei, please, how do we get past the 3/4 face?

[00:08:28]Awesome.

[00:08:29]Wait, what? How do we get past the 3/4 face fear? Fear?

[00:08:35]3/4 faces are like probably the easiest.

[00:08:38]So, let's do this.

[00:08:40]Start with a box.

[00:08:43]Divide it into three.

[00:08:47]Divide it in half.

[00:08:49]And then, choose four or one of these little sections.

[00:08:54]Let's use that one.

[00:08:56]Okay? [snorts] We're going to divide that in half to come up with a box.

[00:09:01]And we're going to draw two circles and a teardrop.

[00:09:06]This is going to give me access to a very simple skull.

[00:09:12]Very simple skull.

[00:09:14]So, if I have that skull, I can have my eyes.

[00:09:21]My nose comes from my little triangle, and then this is my mouth space.

[00:09:27]When we use that, but we don't necessarily need all that.

[00:09:34]It teaches us the concept of where our drawings are supposed to go.

[00:09:50]In whatever stylization you choose, just choose different boxes.

[00:09:58]Right? Choose a box inside of the shape and that's going to align you with the rest of the shape.

[00:10:14]If you choose smaller shapes, you get smaller sections.

[00:10:35]Thank you very much. Yeah, you're welcome. Squidward, yeah, pretty much.

[00:10:40]Yep, dividing by two, dividing by three is like one of the biggest things that you can do.

[00:10:47]Like it's just fun to be able to know like kind of the mathematical equation for that.

[00:10:52]But here, let's do it accurately so it makes sense, okay?

[00:10:57]Start with a box.

[00:10:59]Just a box. Let's split it in four.

[00:11:02]Draw a Squidward.

[00:11:09]And then give it depth.

[00:11:11]Which way do you want to create depth?

[00:11:17]This will give you access to drawing most of the detail that you ever need for your drawings.

[00:11:30]This curves around to the outside of eye, and this curves around your cheek.

[00:11:35]Same thing happens on this side.

[00:11:40]And then you have your ear right here.

[00:11:43]Two two two two.

[00:11:47]Uh I'm noticing I agree, three quarter face is easier.

[00:11:51]The hardest Oh no, looking up and down is really easy, too.

[00:11:55]Looking up and down is really easy once you understand one simple factor.

[00:11:59]The front of your head is curved a little bit.

[00:12:04]And it's smaller than the back. So, your head isn't a little simple box like that, it's angled a little.

[00:12:16]So, if we consider that your eyebrows, your forehead, and your nose, your ears are going to be flat against the side, therefore it's going to look angled.

[00:12:32]Right?

[00:12:34]And then you have things like glasses or anything would be right there.

[00:12:42]So, the head in general is going to be a little bit bigger than what your features are. This same shape, aka draw a box, make it a little bit wider, and then bring it down.

[00:12:56]That shape is going to be consistently the size for your features.

[00:13:08]You need that little extra space.

[00:13:12]It's just because it's wider, and you need to give that space a little bit of breathing.

[00:13:21]When [clears throat] you look up, when you look down, you can learn to do that like this.

[00:13:27]Draw a cylinder.

[00:13:29]Draw your ear.

[00:13:31]Draw a doll a ball.

[00:13:34]Ear to chin.

[00:13:38]Cool. So, that's the front view, right?

[00:13:40]Yay.

[00:13:41]Now, same rule, but we're going to move it up.

[00:13:47]Ear to chin.

[00:13:51]Hm.

[00:13:52]That's kind of cool.

[00:13:55]If I move it up even more, ear to chin.

[00:14:00]Hm.

[00:14:08]Please hit the like so it gets to shown to more people. Yeah, she has a good point.

[00:14:15]If you guys want to help me out, the easiest way to do that is by clicking the little like button.

[00:14:23]Okay?

[00:14:24]So, learning how to move your head up and down is a matter of just understanding one concept.

[00:14:30]The back of your head is a little bit wider than the front.

[00:14:35]Limit your features to a third.

[00:14:42]And you have yourself most of your characters already drawn.

[00:14:57]The ears don't move. No, not really. I mean, they rotate back and forth like from the bottom you'd see them like this.

[00:15:05]Right? You'd have like a much more bottom view.

[00:15:09]And from the front you might see them a little bit more like this.

[00:15:13]But in general like it doesn't really change much.

[00:15:20]A A 1 2 3. Draw a circle and a teardrop.

[00:15:26]And you have access to a skull.

[00:15:28]Almost immediately.

[00:15:32]So, you can measure it out like that.

[00:15:41]All right. And then play around with whatever it is that you want to design.

[00:15:45]So, you're not stuck drawing boring things. Go ahead and draw fun things.

[00:15:53]But now you can do it without struggling.

[00:15:59]Mind blown. Holy that I started to learn to draw in February.

[00:16:03]Found you 2 days ago. And the things I've learned in those 2 days are crazy.

[00:16:08]Imagine what you would learn if you just join my academy.

[00:16:13]Imagine. Imagine what you would learn.

[00:16:20]If you learn from like a random videos, it's really good, too, because I I teach a lot.

[00:16:33]Hey Rodgon. I've been having trouble with facial expressions. They always look uncanny and forced.

[00:16:39]Uh okay. So, let's do some facial expressions.

[00:16:45]So, facial expressions.

[00:16:54]Facial expressions, okay?

[00:16:56]So, facial expressions are going to be mostly due to your your eyes, your mouth, and your eyebrows.

[00:17:06]Facial expressions can be simple.

[00:17:08]You don't have to go much into like a lot of detail to generate a lot of expressiveness from them.

[00:17:17]It's when we forget how to use this to make something more complicated that it's sometimes the detriment of you.

[00:17:26]Let's say that you only know how to draw happy face.

[00:17:32]What does that teach us? That teaches us the space in between our eyes.

[00:17:37]It teaches us where the mouth is going to go.

[00:17:40]So, we have a lot of information thanks to that.

[00:17:45]Mhm, connect eyebrows to the outside of my nose, and I have myself a little triangle.

[00:17:53]So, allowing myself to understand more anatomy later on allows me to be able to draw things from simple things like happy faces.

[00:18:02]Right? Profiles become really simple because you can draw a little simple happy face, right?

[00:18:10]Build it back.

[00:18:14]Okay, you have a nose and an upper lip.

[00:18:25]So, we also learned the rule of three.

[00:18:28]One bottom of a nose is the other.

[00:18:31]So, that means that my ear is going to be right here.

[00:18:40]Curvature of the head to my neck.

[00:18:44]And necks connect at an angle.

[00:18:49]Facial expressions, again, eyebrows, eyes.

[00:18:53]But, you can do it from a little Squidward.

[00:18:58]Right? Actually, if you draw a whole petal, these two the same, these two the same, you end up with a really cool sectioning way to be able to come up with all the features of the head.

[00:19:17]>> Right, so understanding how to do that stuff comes with practice, comes with time, comes with seeing patterns for yourself.

[00:19:29]>> [clears throat] >> I've been watching your videos for months and my art drastically improved.

[00:19:35]Yes.

[00:19:37]Yes. So, more facial expressions than, right?

[00:19:42]So, what makes a person happy?

[00:19:45]Person happy normally means high eyebrows, big mouths, big smiles, big cheeks.

[00:19:55]Right?

[00:19:56]Using happy faces again, we can build that out.

[00:20:04]Right? You can take that as a mapping point and use that to be able to draw our shapes.

[00:20:15]Being able to add more things in between things is much more about just being able to subdivide more.

[00:20:30]Yeah, if you have if you have like we have a payment plan and stuff like that, but save up your money and then just like whenever you're able to join, like sell like one or two drawings or like commissions and then just you don't have to pay it as a subscription, so.

[00:20:44]At the end of the day, it's just one payment.

[00:20:58]You teach a lot. I do.

[00:21:01]Uh I guess that profiles are easy.

[00:21:04]If you can draw a happy face, you can draw a profile.

[00:21:10]Happy face, right? That's simple. That's simple. You draw your ear. You're good.

[00:21:15]Build your eye backwards from there.

[00:21:23]Your mouth, you already have the limit.

[00:21:25]All you need is depth.

[00:21:30]You need your chin.

[00:21:32]You need your nose, and you need your upper lip.

[00:21:39]The type of body character that you want to do is going to be based on your neck.

[00:21:45]If you want a character that's big and bulky, you want your neck to be really wide.

[00:21:52]If you want the neck area to be a little bit narrower, you narrow it from the back.

[00:21:57]A lot of the times, it's from the back.

[00:21:59]It's not from the front.

[00:22:08]Uh keep the political talk away from this, or I will remove you immediately.

[00:22:18]Tend to remove the sparkle shine to make them look dead. No. No.

[00:22:22]Like I like making If I'm going to make somebody look dead, right? Instead of making them look like just like dead eyed, like I know what it's like to just feel like slumped.

[00:22:40]So, it would be a lot more It would be like an indifference, but not indifference at same time.

[00:22:58]But, you still see dread.

[00:23:07]>> And it's just like when people give you the it could work or something you're like And you get like a little vein in your >> [laughter] >> Can you go over the butterfly method for faces?

[00:23:30]Okay, so yeah, we can do that.

[00:23:32]As someone who wants to draw story books for kids, I wondered how some of your tricks would apply to young characters.

[00:23:41]Oh, yeah.

[00:23:43]We can do that, too.

[00:23:44]So, what was the first one? The butterfly method in kids. Okay, we'll do it by drawing kids.

[00:23:50]So, first of all, we need a head and then we need a body.

[00:23:56]Once I have these shapes, I can use the basic shape to go around it, go outside, come back in.

[00:24:04]Go outside, come back in.

[00:24:06]I have myself two little legs.

[00:24:09]Now, I can choose to leave it like this or I can detail them more or I can create different elements by making them wider, thinner, whatever.

[00:24:17]Right? Whatever I choose to do with this is completely up to me. That's where my creativity comes in.

[00:24:26]From here, if I want a child, I want to keep my features to the bottom side of this.

[00:24:33]And my nose and my chin are going to be really small.

[00:24:36]So, when you would normally draw a box and then come up with a third part, 1 2 3, to match your jaw structure, too, for more of an adult feature, a child gets this removed a lot.

[00:24:54]So, you have a lot smaller sections.

[00:25:00]Smaller features.

[00:25:04]Okay? You have big eye sockets.

[00:25:08]Which means that you're going to have eyebrows that are going to be about there.

[00:25:13]And then you draw your eyes according to whatever stylization you want.

[00:25:19]Your ears, they flow with the bottom side of your skull.

[00:25:25]And then you can give them whatever type of hair, whatever type of design you want.

[00:25:31]Oversize hats tend to be a thing.

[00:25:38]Right?

[00:25:39]So again, it doesn't have to be even that simple. If you want more like slightly more complex lines, the same concept applies.

[00:25:48]Outside first, inside second. But then you just need to learn how to build your designs a little bit.

[00:26:02]Okay?

[00:26:12]So being able to draw kids, you take that teardrop and you make it really small.

[00:26:19]So you end up with one, two, and a third.

[00:26:23]So you start with a box, split in half, and you get a third of it.

[00:26:29]And you can have access to drawing all sorts of really cool chibi characters.

[00:26:36]Not even chibi characters, like even animated characters.

[00:26:56]>> And then whatever stylization you choose for the eyes are going to dictate a lot about what the design looks like.

[00:27:09]But the exaggeration of the divots going to give you another element to play with.

[00:27:22]>> Is it better to start with pencil or pen?

[00:27:26]>> Well, I mean neither.

[00:27:30]Really, I guess. They just teach you two different things.

[00:27:33]A pencil will teach you how to refine something.

[00:27:38]A pen will teach you how to improve on your penmanship.

[00:27:45]So, if you spend your time drawing with pencil you're going to always be erasing.

[00:27:53]You're going to be creating things.

[00:27:54]In the long run uh that's not necessarily conducive to your to drawing better. It's conducive to drawing prettier.

[00:28:07]And if you draw with pen you're going to get past getting all those mistakes out of the way and you're going to improve your penmanship a lot.

[00:28:16]But you don't draw necessarily pretty things for a while.

[00:28:21]Because it's going to be a little harder.

[00:28:31]So, it depends on what your goal is and what you want to create.

[00:28:36]Do you want to create better drawing down the line or do you want to create some cool things right now?

[00:29:15]>> Hm.

[00:29:17]I just Man, you're a pro.

[00:29:22]I am a pro.

[00:29:28]Learning how to do these things took a while.

[00:29:32]But that's because I just like drawing much more than the average person.

[00:29:40]And if I didn't like drawing so much, I probably would never have thought about doing this.

[00:29:49]And I don't just like drawing, I love drawing.

[00:30:02]Uh hi Ragon, what books would you recommend for someone drawing for 5 years on and off? But Taco's book.

[00:30:09]See, those guys are good. Those are really good.

[00:30:14]Uh it really depends on what you want to create. Again, it really depends on what type of art you want to do.

[00:30:22]If your goal is to draw more cartoony, I would suggest maybe pick up the art block books that I have for sale.

[00:30:29]And then just trace those, and then pay attention and take a lot of notes.

[00:30:34]Right? But if your goal is to get more technically better, uh I for now, like that Taco book is amazing.

[00:30:42]Uh, there's Tuesday tips.

[00:30:44]There is a book called Tuesday tips.

[00:30:47]I don't know if they still have it in circulation, but that one's incredibly good.

[00:31:15]Okay.

[00:31:18]What drawing [snorts] tablet are you using? I'm using Clip Studio.

[00:31:23]Just Clip Studio.

[00:31:26]Clip Studio's fun.

[00:31:29]It's just a very simple program, so it doesn't have a lot of like fuss to it.

[00:31:35]And it's very simple to be able to sit here and draw without bottlenecking your computer.

[00:31:44]>> [snorts] >> How do you draw hair on both men and women?

[00:32:02]Well, hair is easy.

[00:32:04]Once you learn how to draw someone uh, their head like completely bald.

[00:32:12]Right? Draw a line.

[00:32:14]Draw a little circle.

[00:32:16]And a big circle touching.

[00:32:19]Okay?

[00:32:20]Do this.

[00:32:22]Line.

[00:32:23]Little circle.

[00:32:25]And big circle touching.

[00:32:28]Connect it with a curve and you have yourself the top of your head.

[00:32:34]Follow that down and you have yourself your jaw.

[00:32:37]Your chin.

[00:32:43]Okay?

[00:32:44]That's the shape of your head.

[00:32:47]This is your scalp. Whenever you're drawing hair, you need to draw your hairline.

[00:32:54]So that you can draw it like grass.

[00:32:56]Little tiny ones.

[00:32:58]Right? What's longer grass?

[00:33:06]And grass grows longer, grows up and falls down a little.

[00:33:13]Right?

[00:33:14]And then when grass gets really long, it's kind of like a vine.

[00:33:26]>> [cough and clears throat] >> Wait, wait, what are you saying? Uh if you're still interested in possibly teaching on a compass link, ooh.

[00:33:40]U T S A pace.

[00:33:45]T S A pace.

[00:33:49]I'll take it into consideration.

[00:33:57]All right. So, you guys get one more question.

[00:34:01]You've been here for 30 minutes.

[00:34:04]So, how do you draw Okay. U side. Yeah, that works too.

[00:34:12]All right, everybody. How do you draw lips?

[00:34:16]Okay. So, if you draw your mouth like a teardrop, right? You divide that into three.

[00:34:24]You're going to get your nose and your mouth line.

[00:34:29]Okay? That's your mouth line.

[00:34:31]So, your mouth line, you need to draw it in different ways because mouths are very very very interesting.

[00:34:39]But if you draw thick lines and thin lines, you can generate volume.

[00:34:46]If you draw thick and thin lines, you can generate a lot of volume.

[00:34:51]So if you are drawing somebody that's pouting, drawing thick and thin lines give you access to drawing those illusions.

[00:35:06]Right?

[00:35:13]Thick line, thin line.

[00:35:21]So if you wanted to pucker up a lip, right?

[00:35:25]You can draw it from the front, draw the thick line, your lips are going to connect the top.

[00:35:35]Thick line and but you don't need an opening.

[00:35:48]If you make that top line thinner, it gives you a better illusion.

[00:35:59]Thick, thin.

[00:36:02]Okay?

[00:36:03]So whenever you're drawing your lips, you can draw them puckered or perching in any way you want. Thin [snorts] line for the top, thin lines for detail, and thick line for the bottom lip because it curves.

[00:36:22]Smiling, thick line, thin line thick line thin line for details So, whenever you're drawing them on a person right? You draw the mid-line first.

[00:36:47]And then you draw your lips.

[00:37:04]Hey. Okay, so does that answer your question?

[00:37:10]Again, if you don't know how to draw profiles, draw a little happy face and a teardrop. Right? Your nose is going to be right there.

[00:37:19]Your lip comes out. Your lip comes back in.

[00:37:29]So, when you draw different types of teardrops if you have a big lip, you let it go forward.

[00:37:42]Right?

[00:37:43]The more you curve your lip forward, the more access to a puckering you have.

[00:38:00]>> [snorts] >> Your mouth, as it opens, it gets closer to you.

[00:38:10]Your lips stretch.

[00:38:12]So, the more the mouth is open, the less lips you have.

[00:38:17]So, if you open your mouth up there, your lips are going to be almost non-existent, Even if you had puckered lips.

[00:38:26]Mostly because you're stretching as opposed to pushing.

[00:38:36]Hey, truly one of the best teachers I've ever had. Aw.

[00:38:41]Aw, that's so nice.

[00:38:44]That's so nice of you to say.

[00:38:56]So, there you go.

[00:38:58]That is how you would draw closed lips.

[00:39:03]But, I would still add a little openings here and there just to give more depth, you know?

[00:39:15]Personally, I would do that.

[00:39:19]Tear drop.

[00:39:20]And then you have access to your teeth.

[00:39:25]Then you just need a mouth, which is like an eyeball that's going around your teeth.

[00:39:37]So, tear drop, nose, mouth, lips.

[00:39:50]Okay?

[00:39:53]Whenever you're adding it to a face, add a box, split it, and add the tear drop right there.

[00:40:03]And you have access to complete characters really quickly.

[00:40:13]So, thank you so much for your time, everyone. Thank you so much for your attention.

[00:40:17]If you ever want to join my school, you just have to join whenever the open inscriptions are going on.

[00:40:25]And that's happening right now.

[00:40:27]If you ever wanted to join us for a fundamentals class, and you struggle with basic shapes and rotating characters and finding characters with flow and doing all that stuff.

[00:40:38]If you struggle with coming up with characters with cool poses, guess what?

[00:40:47]It's one of the first classes we teach.

[00:40:52]Explaining to you how to move your characters is one of the easiest things in the world.

[00:40:59]But we don't practice things enough to be able to get there.

[00:41:03]We often skip all the good stuff.

[00:41:07]And since you skip all the good stuff, you tend to not be able to do it later.

[00:41:17]When am I streaming again? Probably tomorrow.

[00:41:21]Most likely tomorrow.

[00:41:24]So, I will see you guys.

[00:41:27]I will see you guys then.

[00:41:29]Please be good. Be safe. Take care of each other.

[00:41:34]And I will see you guys for another lesson very, very soon.

[00:41:39]Deal.

[00:41:44]Later, guys.

[00:41:46]See you guys next time.

[00:41:52]What was this?

[00:41:59]Finally.

[00:42:00]That's awesome. All right. I'll see you guys next time. Take care.