So, now picture this, but blue.
So again, you want to start with the simplest shape which is a circle,
and that indicates the head.
My Pop Manga book, I mentioned that this is the way I draw a head.
There was one person who said, there is no new trick.
It's just a circle for a head,
because it works, because that's how it is.
Don't try to reinvent the wheel,
just use shapes when you're drawing your character.
So, that's what I've learned over the years is that I just draw simple shapes,
and I draw mass first.
So, here I've got Kuro's body, which he's cloaked,
so I don't really have to worry about proportions and because he's a shape-shifter,
I don't have to worry about his hips or his shoulders here.
He's suppose to be almost like
black ink that has just poured down and is splashing on the ground.
That's what I'd like to have here,
so that the top half is really read like solid,
but then it hits the ground and this pedal of like energy.
So, that's what we're going to do.
So, you got his head.
Because you're drawing two characters,
and they are interacting,
you want sure that you
draw them so that they Tanpopo is actually smaller than Kuro because she's a girl,
and caries the larger element here.
So, it is going to be a little tricky,
but you want to, again use your reference if you're not sure of how somebody is held.
But I start again with Tanpopo's head,
just smaller than Kuro's so I've already got that mapped out.
So, I've got her shoulder here,
and she's going to be like curling into Kuro's chest.
So, and to show body movement,
study in the mirror and look in like,
when you're curled up, your shoulder comes up.
So, that's an element here.
There's also exaggerations you can do when you're drawing.
So, maybe in real life your shoulder wouldn't go that high up,
but for dramatic purposes,
and because it is a cartoon,
you can get away with that.
So, now I've got Tanpopo's body shape pretty covered here,
I wanted to curl her in,
and I know that Kuro's hand is going to be underneath her knees, holding her up.
So, I'm just going to put a little shape there which indicates his hand,
and then one underneath.
Basically her wings are going to be like in the smaller back, so he's holding her,
and the he needs to look like he's not struggling to her up,
because he's so strong.
When you're drawing a very strong character,
he needs to look effortless.
So, his shoulders just going to be straight.
He's not going to be slumped over.
It's like she's light as a feather.
So, I wanted to be clutching onto him.
So, she won't be wrapped around him.
So, then you've got her knee and then you've got the joints here,
and that's triangles for feet. Super easy.
The way that you draw their faces,
you're going to want to show how their head is like or it's tilted,
and when you're drawing a face in particular, there's cross hairs,
and they represent the middle down by two lines.
One is a line that goes straight down from your chin to the top of your head,
and the other one is from your ears,
especially your eye lines,
so from your ears to your eyes to your other ear.
I'm going to, that's the one line that indicates where her nose is going to be,
more her chin is and this is her eye line.