Drawing an Angel Body

Video Transcript

"Alright, in this clip, we're going to be giving a body to our more serious angel. And, to start, let's move right down from the head, and start with the neck. Now, we want this guy to be powerful, so we're not going to give him a ski neck. We're going to give him a neck that pretty much stays in line with his jaw. Give a little throat definition there. And we'll just kind of build out from there. Bring the neck down a good ways, just about like that. And then we're going to start to build the shoulders. We want long, powerful shoulders. And, what we'll do; I'm going to give this guy a robe as well. Sort of the same style robe that we gave our cartoon angel. And, you'll see that we're going to kind of repeat ourselves a little bit with a design, but that the whole look will be vastly, vastly, different; vastly different. We're going to give this guy a little bit of definition there. We'll even give him, roughly, the same pose. The same pose, same clothes, but the look will be incredibly different. Although, a lot of the rules do apply. The same thing we did with the last guy, we're going to come down and give our guy here, some robe definition around where the belt will be. Because we're going to give this guy a belt as well, and sleeves. See how we did that? Now, him, he'll just be a little bit different, because we're going to make his body look a little bit bigger and more muscular than, than the last guy. And so, we'll give him a little belt, right down here. Then move on to his hands. Start with the thumbs and make them wide and powerful hands. And, we're going to actually give him realistic hands, because this is a realistic angel. Four fingers, just like that; to finish off the robe. You know one thing I'm going to do? I just decided that, just now; I'm going to give, we're going to teach you a little more about perspective in this one. Instead of drawing an even, sort of a look, we're going to start to kind of come down and taper off this guy's robe. And in doing that, what we're going to do, is a forced perspective on the audience. And what I'm doing is, by doing, I'm slowly like, making his feet smaller and smaller as we get down to the bottom, I'm making it look like, he is actually coming straight at the camera. Ah, not the camera, I guess I should say; well, yeah, the camera, in this case, because you guys are watching me through a lens. So, it almost looks like, he's flying, straight up into the picture; just by drawing his feet smaller like that. You see how I did that? And that will complete the look on his body, and then we'll move on to the next clip, which will be, the wings."