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Hi, I am David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village. Today we are going to learn how to
draw characters. Now that we've drawn our character of the
funny principal of a high school with the comb over, I am going to go back and show
you different ways that you can draw eyes. We will start there and work our way to noses,
mouths etc. Right now I am just going to show you how
I practice drawing eyes and this is something that anyone can do because it is really hard
to mess them up. Usually what I will start to do is, say someone
is surprised, then usually their eyes are really big. So, make the eyes big like this.
You can put the pupils at the top to show fear or surprise. If someone looks a little shady, you can squint
the eyes and make them really small, like they are a secret spy or something. They look
a little shifty. If it is a pretty girl, you can make her have soft eyes, this really big
puppy dog eyes, and then add really large eyelashes. You can even put little dots at
the end, that is what I like to do for a pretty girl, just to give emphasis.
Then you can do someone that is half asleep, just kind of droopy eyes. And all I am really
doing is really simple shapes. I mean that is a line and a half circle, a line and half
circle. This is a semicircle. These are very simple but they are animated. So they give
your character life. So, with simple lines and circles you have
four different sets of eyes. You can just practice eyes all day, I can fill this entire
sheet up with eyes. So, that is how I start with the eyes for a character.