I really appreciate how this series always shows the whole process unedited. I often tell beginners to try watching drawing demos at 0.25x and to follow along making exactly the same motions, because there's a lot of tacit knowledge in the markmaking process. But it needs a clear, unedited view of the hand like this to really work. When I'm designing characters(which I'm doing for comics instead of animation, but I borrow ideas from both), I've been using graph paper as my proportioning guide. I see a trade-off in that it makes some decisions easier and creates a lot of scale consistency across designs, but it also locks my eyes into following the grid lines.
one thing i was told to pay attention to is the knees. A lot of people regardless of height are usually lined up at the knees, the length of the knee and tibia are gonna be roughly the same height for just about everyone. Something about the femur bone being the actual bone that gives us the change in height or something I can't remember who or where I heard this but it's been a consistent observation (of course other factors too like neck length torso length, but the tibia remains the same height). A 5ft person and a 6ft person are at equal height at the knees, but only at the knees. Its hard to explain but essentially no matter the height most humans line up proportionally at the knees, the tibia's per person is the same length. Your shorter characters show case what I mean- they're all lined up, roughly, by their knees, despite the somewhat varying heights! tho I notice there's an exception when the height difference is extreme- a 4ft person and a 7ft person don't line up at the knees (like ur tiniest character Elf 1 compared to eveyone else, and the taller woman Vampire compared to everyone else.). But even for a 7ft person their knees tend to line up with a say an 8ft person.
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I really appreciate how this series always shows the whole process unedited. I often tell beginners to try watching drawing demos at 0.25x and to follow along making exactly the same motions, because there's a lot of tacit knowledge in the markmaking process. But it needs a clear, unedited view of the hand like this to really work.
When I'm designing characters(which I'm doing for comics instead of animation, but I borrow ideas from both), I've been using graph paper as my proportioning guide. I see a trade-off in that it makes some decisions easier and creates a lot of scale consistency across designs, but it also locks my eyes into following the grid lines.
Great !
really nice tutorial and acad
Glad you liked it!
Love the character designs.
Thanks! - John
Keep submitting more tutorial videos! I LOVE your work!
I'm glad you like them! I'll keep making more! - John
nice art academy
Fun watch. Keep it up!
Thanks, will do! - John
my parents won't let me join animation school, so its nice to learn from here😊
RUclips has all the information you should need to learn 🎉
I subscribed to your channel
Thanks!! - John
one thing i was told to pay attention to is the knees. A lot of people regardless of height are usually lined up at the knees, the length of the knee and tibia are gonna be roughly the same height for just about everyone. Something about the femur bone being the actual bone that gives us the change in height or something I can't remember who or where I heard this but it's been a consistent observation (of course other factors too like neck length torso length, but the tibia remains the same height).
A 5ft person and a 6ft person are at equal height at the knees, but only at the knees. Its hard to explain but essentially no matter the height most humans line up proportionally at the knees, the tibia's per person is the same length. Your shorter characters show case what I mean- they're all lined up, roughly, by their knees, despite the somewhat varying heights!
tho I notice there's an exception when the height difference is extreme- a 4ft person and a 7ft person don't line up at the knees (like ur tiniest character Elf 1 compared to eveyone else, and the taller woman Vampire compared to everyone else.). But even for a 7ft person their knees tend to line up with a say an 8ft person.
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Is the rubber band there to keep you from brushing the page off the pegs?
Yep! So that it stays in place while I’m working and flipping back and forth between drawing.
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At least this is much cheaper than Don Bluth University.