How to Draw Fairies

Video Transcript

"All right folks, in this clip I'm going to teach you how to draw fairies. And what we'll do is we'll start with the head, we can start right here. I'm just going to come down and make a nice little round shape, just kind of like that. Now one thing to keep in mind as we draw the head is, fairies are magical creatures. So you're not necessarily going to subscribe to the exact laws of human physics and design that you would if you were drawing a...you know, human being. Case in point, I'm drawing this fairies ears pointed in sort of like a magical way, and I'm going to come here and give her kind of a fancy, upward hair thing. Basically, allow yourself to be creative. You can come up with whatever crazy designs you want. You are in charge. We can come up here, and we're going to draw here eyes. Lightly go in there like that. Come down, and do the nose and a mouth. So that will be her head there. We'll move down into the neck. And keep in mind also, she doesn't exactly have to play by the laws of the physical world that we inhabit in terms of body design either. If you want, you can go kind of crazy and come up with some really crazy different patterns and designs. I'm going to draw her wearing a dress of sorts, I guess you could say. And she'll be flying, too. One thing I'm going to do right here is I'm going to come up here and draw her arms kind of out in a....guess you'd say, it'll end up looking like a pose of some kind. Make her fingers look very delicate, as they come in there. See how I went and draw those in sort of like little swoops? So they come up to there, makes her look sort of graceful, almost like a hummingbird, very delicate and almost angelic and graceful in a way. So there's that. Now at this point what we'll do is we're going to draw in some wings. And I'm going to give her sort of a butterfly wing look. Come up there, and one thing that's important is once you've decided on one pattern, like the one that I just did over there, it's the same thing as sort of like the snowflake concept, you want to copy it exactly. Otherwise it's going to look really goofy. So there's the topward part of her wing. Now I'm going to come over here and draw the bottom portion. Now like I said, you are in charge, so you can literally do whatever you want, so get creative. Think outside the box. Just make sure you kind of copy what you do. So there are the wings, right there. All right, and to finish up what I'll do is I'm going to come down here and do her legs. And I'm going to kind of do one off into the distance, and the other is going to be straight down. So I'm going to draw the one that's straight down first, draw her foot and her ankle coming up like that. So there's one foot. And then this one is going to be kind of going off into the distance, so I'm going to draw the knee kind of coming out, like this, and then draw the leg sorta further away. Kind of like she's bent it, and kind of like sending it back that way. Not exactly like the knee's bent, but it's basically like this leg is forward, this leg is further back. And it's all about perspective, the way we do that. We call attention to one and not the other, and it kind of looks like she's flying. It gives her more of an interesting pose, basically, a more interesting design to look at. And then, of course, you could come in and you could give her some little things for her feet, and just add the little details that make the drawing more interesting. But, the end of the day, I'd say that's a pretty good idea and design for a fairy, and you can obviously develop it as you like, add the details where you wish. And, there you go."