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Okay folks in this clip I'm going to teach you how to draw a Capuchin monkey. I'm going
to start right here and we're going to do what first of all I would describe as just
the basic outer proportions and dimensions of the monkey itself. Start by drawing sort
of an odd oval shape, which will be the foundation for your head. Then come in and we're going
to draw his back kind of coming on down like that, that will be the top back part of his
body. And as you're doing this, especially with free features, it's okay if you don't
draw a perfectly smooth, straight lines like I did right here. Simply because you know
a lot of times you're going to be feeling out the design, and there's nothing wrong
with kind of experimenting while you feel it out. This line right here is going to be
his leg, and it's going to kind of come behind what will be his arm. So we're going to kind
of draw it in like that. And monkey's often times will be found sitting in more squatted
positions, so it's okay to kind of draw them that way. Make his arm kind of come out like
that, both of them will kind of be resting right out in front of him. And we'll get to
those in a second along with the feet. Now we're going to go back to the head right here,
because that's going to be one of the more important parts. Now the first thing that
you're going to want to do is the eyes, I think. And if you're drawing a cartoon, obviously
you can do this a wide variety of ways, but I'll tell you one characteristic that this
monkey has, his eyes are very dark. Most monkeys have very dark eyes, if you've noticed. You
don't see a lot of white in any of their eyes. So if I were you I'd fill up most of his eye
with black, just to kind of give it the right effect. Then of course add a little personality,
he goes kind of come up in the angle of his eyebrows a little bit. Most monkeys seem to
have kind of like an inquisitive look naturally. Going to give him tiny little nostrils right
in here. Just like so. And then just to kind of give him that monkey look, I'm going to
draw kind of little ooo, ooo, like he's making the ooo noise. Just kind of, yea, yea, give
it a little more character and a little more personality. Now his ears for Capuchin are
kind of right in here on the side of his head, some monkeys are a little higher up. Capuchin
ears are a little bit further down, and then obviously you're going to want to add a little
bit of fur definition on the sides. You're going to want to come up here and kind of
encircle the eyes, this will be the fleshy part of the face. The furry part being over
here. Just like that. Now we've got his back kind of going already, so kind of come down
here and draw the fur along side his back, coming up here and give him a tail. Another
distinct characteristic I would say. You don't have to make that as hairy if you don't want
to. Now to add detail tot he feet, just ,kind of come in here along the bottom, hands same
way. These Capuchin monkeys don't really have large hands, they have little bit smaller
limbs. So you don't have to add quite the length that you would add to say a gorilla
or any other monkey really. Because a lot of them, I mean they do use their hands for
climbing, but Capuchin monkeys a little bit smaller hands. They're kind of like spider
monkeys. And that's pretty much it. If you got that down you've got yourself a nice little
Capuchin monkey.