Coloring Cartoon Expressions

Video Transcript

"While some good old, black markers will be enough for you to do a lot of your cartoon expressions. After all, some of the great Sunday, comic strips were never ever in color. Sometimes, you can use color to heighten the expressions in your cartoons. And I'm going to show you actually, by taking you through several expressions, you've already drawn. And showing you ways, in which you can leverage a little bit of color. To emphasize your effect. First, let's take our sad expression. Now for this, we're going to color him, in using gray. Now, you're like. What do you mean, gray? It's not the color of skin. How many gray people do you know? Well, in terms of people who are healthy, not many? But I will say that a cartoon coloring should not be looked as real world. There are several comic strips, over the years. Who do not, perfectly represent skin color? In fact, some of them intentionally try to get us out of. What we term in, in terms of like, different colors of skin. Which is, that's fine? So in this case, this guy is down. What color do you think of, when you're down? You think of gray. You think of gray clouds. You think, even in this case of gray people. People who are down. The other color you think of when people are down is blue. Blue, blue, blue. Blue rain falling on my windshields. Blue circles, gray circles underneath your eyes. Blue mouth. So you can see, just how a couple of very easy basic coloring in here. Now ask yourself. Do these colors make this drawing more sad? I would way sure, that they do. This is like an, in this case a very simple. Very basic application of color. Just two colors. We don't even draw anything on the drawing. The hair is still left empty. But you can see, you've already increased and made it almost, like more watery. And this is like, this person's almost going to slide off the page. Because they're so sad. Now for angry expression, I've already used a couple colors here. To put on the skin color. In this case, I'm using flesh color. This, you know, this guy's Caucasian. Has medium brown hair. But we're going to add in a couple colors. Turning up for the burgundy. Start showing a flashed, angry expression on these cheeks. I'm going up and over the black to show that some blood is sitting here. This guy's blood is up. If anything, you can also use this. Doubt line some of the angrier lines. See how this is already starting to heighten the effect. Something else, you can do is add in some red. Red eyes. This guy's seeing red. And go above here. And put in some red. Over an angry dark cloud, hanging over. A very, very angry, angry guy. Also the gum lines down here, you can do in red, as well. Now for our scared person, I'm going to use again, a very similar flesh color. But I'm going to make it a little more faint than the last one. Now these are just basic suggestions of coloring. you can use on your cartoon expressions. Experiment, do different things. I mean, the sky is really the limit for what you can do with color. But one of things is, is if you, the higher grade markers you have. The less smearing and drier, you're going to get. See this guy is just dry. Actually, here let me do an extreme example. Look at his color over the eyebrows. Oh, my goodness! What's going to happen now? That's going to be smearing all brown. Everything is going to be all monkey. Going to be all gunky, when I go above, over it. If you have good markers, no problem at all. None. See there's no smearing there at all. I can very easily put several colors in here. Now for the markers, but like, say hair standing on anywhere. You're trying to get tips. I like pressing down harder. And then flailing upwards. As I go. See how actually, it gives you this nice tip effect, up here. That's something very easy and obvious, you can do. Now something with somebody's who's scared, is their tongue's going to be showing. So let's show off that tongue back here. Don't be shy. It's going to be bright and red and obvious. It's also going to be doubly obvious. So they have their mouth open in some horrible scream. Because they're freaked out by something they saw. You can also put them blue eyes. It's a nice touch. And you can also add in some blue to some of these tears and sweat marks going off. Blue traditionally, represents sweat, tear, anxiety, etc."