All right so this is another exercise that can be fun to come up with creative ideas and just explore
new options.
It's not assignment.
I just want to show you guys because I think they're really fun.
If you want to do one go for it.
But it make an assignment because in order to do this you have to have a little kid draw a picture for
you and not everyone has access to a little kid who will draw a picture for them so if you want to do
it go ahead.
If not just now this is fun.
You can do maybe find a drawing a little kid did online or something but this is a drawing some kids
that I know did part of this exercise is to take these children drawing and use them as a jumping off
point for inspiration and kind of redesign them and just use the elements that are in the original one
to rework them into something new.
OK.
So we have this drawing here up in the corner that they drew and they all took turns adding something
to it.
So they all help participate to draw this and I am going to take this and kind of put my own spin on
it came.
So we're just getting two letters on this one.
Keep it real quick and start out I'm going to make that a little smaller actually to two in the corner.
OK.
So to start out I'm going to block in my major shape so I'm thinking he's going to have kind of like
in the picture he's going to have a really a really low to the ground body and a really short legs really
short legs really long body and torso.
OK.
So I'm drawing his pelvis here and his rib cage where his neck will be ok.
Draw his shoulder blade.
Bring that down a little bit more his legs back here.
Not doing anything crazy with the pose because just keep this quick and simple the idea is just I'm
trying to kind of keep it the same pose as the drawing the original drawings you can see the resemblance
but if you want to get a little crazier with your pose you totally can.
So the other key or the other shoulder blades is going to be back there.
Awesome.
That's what I'm thinking sort of for the body.
I'm going to bring this a little closer.
Make it longer OK.
You know have his tail come up pretty similar to how it is in the original
.
OK and then over his head we're going to have it come up here like this
and we'll have his head be right up here and I'm going to try and somewhat keep that box shape that's
in the original.
So it's kind of reminiscent of that.
And we're going to have his mouth slightly open so he could get that tongue sticking out of his little
nose like we have in the original.
It's a little cute triangle nose.
Right.
And then his head here.
I'm going to flatten his head even more.
His head has these this horn here that's going to be coming right out the middle.
And then he has these antenna type things.
OK.
And then his eyes be really simple little eyes and his eyes like a beard thing.
I think that's what that is.
Will add that in.
And then his hair on top of his head something roughly like that.
OK.
Now I think over all his entire head and neck area just a little too big.
So shrink it down.
So fantastic being able to work digitally and just resize things as you need to as you're working.
It's really convenient.
OK.
And then we come over here and really quick keeping it really loose and we can deal with the detail
on the final final layer.
I'm not going to worry about that right now.
It's one block in all of his main limbs and general volumes are OK.
And so he has this big loop thing on his back and I think I'm just going to have that be kind of like
a spot and we'll put some more spots on him to kind of like a dog as he has spots on his neck as well.
So I could do it exactly like that because I don't really like the way it looks but I am just going
to add some of my own.
OK.
Yeah.
One I saying I almost forgot this part.
So he has like these weird I don't know if it's a wing or claws or what but I'm just going to put them
kind of like these large spiny sort of outgrowths from his side here.
They're not really wings I don't know what they would be or what you would call them but they're in
the original so I just want to add them here as well.
So we're doing
right.
So that would be our rough flair.
Let's go ahead and refine this and do one more layer.
So you layer the opacity.
OK.
We can actually get rid of that.
In the corner because we have everything we need in this first one.
So it looks like a drill on the same layer so we're not getting rid of that came from that light right
there this time.
And let's do our let's do our finished finished pass so I start up here on his back the spines here
and I'm going to lower the opacity just a little bit more on that layer that's working good got his
backside here work on his leg.
And we got onto his other spines over here.
OK.
Looking good.
Grab his tail.
Rework that a little bit.
OK.
He does have spines going all the way down his tail so I'll probably do that but I might just have it
go down.
His whole body then if we're going to go that route so let's work on his chest cavity here.
And that hind leg needs to be a little bit bigger.
Right now it's raining outside.
I love working to the sound of the rain so calming.
I don't know that's perfectly lined up in perspective but I'm not going to worry about it right now
we're just going to finish this out slowly over here let's finish his feet.
So before we move on that side yeah.
To fix the leg into the legs to where I could leave it and let it fly but I can't too big of a perfectionist
I guess.
So let's fix it.
That looks more accurate.
Lengthen the femur here right after you.
That's enough of that.
OK.
It's not perfect but that's OK.
All right.
So we have his neck here that we need to do.
And since he has this little beard thing going on I'm going to put a little bit of hair down here as
well.
This will come up here to his head.
Zoom in they're not dry and so tiny out will help bring his mouth corners up to just about they're not
going to go all that way.
I can sketch that was going to stop at about their
Hey nose in here for as high as I'm thinking what if we moved his eyes down more I would make him like
a little bit happier.
He just looked like in the original how his eyes kind of hear more in the original.
Maybe we should do it.
It kind of like the way it looks.
And I think we should do that instead.
So that's what we're going to do.
Make a creative decision here.
Can put some little whiskers here.
There's whisker holes anyways.
You can add some more detail.
Put let's do like a little bit of a patch of for here that they have.
But sometimes the original doesn't have ears.
And I don't think I'm going to add.
I think it looks good how it is so I'll just leave that out.
But we will do do the horn now or some bridges on it.
And I did notice that I don't ever I don't ever just do the stripes or things like this right.
The only way that would ever happen is if you're looking straight on at a small section of it right.
But we're not looking at it straight on.
So the lines are going to be curved right with some other bands right going up.
But they follow the form of the object.
So I try to refrain from ever doing straight lines all the way across something that's very very rare
that that ever happens unless it's specifically lined up for that to take place.
So keep that in mind and then this.
And then let's get all this weird hair stuff we have going on we may kind of make it look like it's
emanating from where the horn is.
It's interesting how kids can come up with something that at first glance seems kind of odd or appealing
but once it's reworked a little bit it can come up with some pretty interesting and appealing design.
So something that's pretty cool I think.
Will there be good enough.
All right.
And then for some of the final touches we're going to do is add some spikes going down his back like
water and the the original on the tail.
But we're going to put it over his whole back.
So it makes more sense.
The more uniform as a kid and I would drop creatures and stuff.
It was amazing.
I was a little kid but I always used to have this internal dilemma where I would want to draw and play
pretend with my friends and I would always want to draw the creature I was planning to be or the creature
that I was writing or whatever was my pet you know.
And I always want to be like OK this is I'm writing this right.
I would I would describe it as writing I draw a picture like this is what it looks like the thing that
I'm writing looks like this.
And I would draw a picture.
But the problem was is that it always looks so cool when you put spikes on its back.
But at the same time I knew that I couldn't write that.
How could you write something with spikes all over its back that would hurt.
You couldn't put a saddle on it.
And so I always have this dilemma between whether or not I should put spikes on it or not because the
spikes looked cooler but you couldn't ride it it had spikes on it.
That was always it was it was a big deal for me.
So I'm just putting in the spots here.
You know I have a big spot on his hindquarters here.
I remember one time I was creating a creature and I came up with this creature and I decided to call
it a griffin.
And I didn't know what a real Griffin was at the time.
I never heard of that.
And I saw it in a book one time and I was like blown away like why.
That's a real thing.
I was like so confused why they were calling something a Griffin because I was like I made that up.
That's like my my idea.
How did they know that.
But it wasn't my idea.
Gryphons had been around or at least idea of griffons had been around a lot longer than I have so I'm
pretty sure they didn't.
Still ahead we're going to do spies everywhere.
I'm going to keep it pretty simple.
OK.
So I think we can call this one good.
That's it.
So yeah.
Was a fun little exercise.
You can do to help you generate ideas.
You know maybe you don't like this one completely but you see things in a day you're like man I could
use that in something else right.
If I tweak this and kind of just get rid of the walk away from the reference and do what I want with
it you can come up with some pretty pretty great ideas I'm just going to go ahead and center him a little
more on the page
so that he's not not off here at the bottom but yeah there you go.
That is it for this lecture and I'll see you guys in the next one.