Drawing the Neck & Shoulders of a Cartoon Girl

Video Transcript

"All right, moving on now to the neck and shoulders. For most female characters, you are going to want to give them a long slender elegant neck. Because, it just looks, when you are drawing the female body it just looks more eye appealing design if you go for long and slender. So don't be afraid to give her a longer neck there. And then make her kind of seemlessly flow into the chin. And we're going to in this case give her arms a nice sort of, her hands are going to just sort of rest upon her hips. So we're going to make the shoulders go up just a pinch. So there's room for that position, or for that pose. You could, if you want to give her a somewhat smaller neck, it forces you to do something different. If you all of a sudden, it just changes her look, with her neck being shorter like that it forces her to be a little bit more compact in appearance. Or you don't give her hardly any neck at all. Just go right into the shoulders there. By doing that, it definitely sort of shrinks your character up that way. We want to make sort of a longer more slender woman. This lady could end up being a really skinny skinny figure. So for here, we can expiriment with a wide variety of looks. But for our main girl, we're going to give her a fairly normal looking appearance here. So we're going to keep her body slender, and build off of that."