Ryan Maloney draws Seamswild's Dusty character with a mechanical pencil, starting with simple shapes for the head, ears, and body. He shows how to position the eyes and cheeks for a fierce expression, add the jersey and running pose, then finish with details like the lightning bolt stripe and number 88.
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Welcome to Drawing Seems Wild. Today we're drawing Dusty. I'm using a Paper Mate mechanical pencil and I'm just drawing on regular printer paper. I'm going to tape down the corner so the paper doesn't shift around. The first thing I do when I draw my characters is draw simple shapes. Not only does this help you quickly see what the drawing, the full character, is going to look like,— but it gives you an idea of where you're gonna put the details of the drawing. I always like to lay down simple shapes like circles, squares, triangles, and let these build up the base of my character before I get into too many details. So I'm holding my pencil sideways here to just be light and loose with the structure. I find that if I change my grip throughout the drawing, the underlying structure will feel different and have more energy and be looser and flow a little bit more. And then I'll change my grip as I get into more details and tighten things up a little bit. So Dusty's going to be holding a football in the middle of his body. I'm going to put in some circles for the football, for the shoulder, for the hips, for the head. And you can make sure— make this— and you can make this drawing yours. Don't worry about making it exactly like mine. I think if you get these circles down, you can start to see where all the points are gonna fall, and you can sort of create your own dusty character. So the top of the ear is this swooping shape, and the bottom of the ear is a simple half arc. I'm gonna draw the inside of the ear to give the ear some volume and some shading so I can start to see the character coming to life a little bit. Here's the top of Dusty's head. I'm going to draw Dusty's hair or his mane. So there's the top shape of his forehead. That's the first chunk of its mane, and then we're going to do that again a couple more times. Behind the ear and around the back of the head. Now I'm going to draw the back of its neck. And now we're drawing the other side of his forehead. So this is going to be his eyebrow, his far eyebrow. And then I'm going to start to draw the top of his snout. So his snout is one line out horizontally, and then we're going to have two bumps for for its nostrils. We're only going to see one circle for the nostril on this one side. So I'm going to continue with the snout, and now I'm going to draw his smile. This can be big and goofy, can be whatever you want it to be. A lot of my smiles in the Seems Wild characters are similar. So they're big and wide as the, as the character smiles towards its back teeth, and then they close up towards the front teeth. And then we can draw the bottom lip, give the nostril some dimension with some shading. So now here's the top of the cheek. That's going to cover up the eye, and you'll notice a lot of these characters have cheeks and eyebrows that cover up the eyes. This is going to make the characters look a little bit more fierce and like they're grinding their teeth or they're really focused on a play. The cheek and the eyebrow are going to come together and cover up the top and the bottom of the eye. Now here's a line in between the eyebrows that I like to put in there. It's just a crease to show extra wrinkles, like they're really squeezing their forehead down. The cheek and eyebrow close together, the top of the— and then it's going to cover up the top of the eye and the bottom. I'm going to add some shading in here to add some depth. Now I'm covering up the— where I'm drawing the pupil. It would be good if you could see that. But let me just get it in here and then I'll talk about it. So the pupil is going to be looking backwards. Dusty is going to be running to the right, but he's looking back as if people were chasing him. I'm going to draw the bottom and the top teeth and start to fill in the gaps of the teeth. I'm using light sketch lines here to lay down the position of the teeth, and now I'm laying in the cracks of the teeth and the gums. The bottom of the snout or its chin and delete some of these sketch lines so we can start to see the character. Now let's start drawing his arm and his shoulder. So this line is going to be his jersey, and I'm drawing it so it could— it's like you can almost see up his jersey sleeve to give it a little bit dimension and wrap around his arm. And now this is the bottom of his arm, which is sort of a stretched out U. And then for forearms, I draw them with muscle and I draw them as if they're squeezing the football to give them a little bit more shape and intensity. So Dusty would have— I drew his hands as if he's packing hooves into football gloves, so you don't have to have perfect fingers here. They're more pointy, tri— basic triangles. I'm going to draw the laces of the ball. And I'm using smaller movements with my finger for all the smaller details. I use bigger sweeping motions for the structure and when I lock out my wrist and my shoulder, and then I start to bend my wrist for more details and move my fingers for smaller details and quick strokes for shading. Here's his chest. Now let's draw his other arm. So this arm is going to be up. And when you run, your opposite arm and your opposite leg raise at the same time. So this is his far hand and arm is going to be in an upward position. And you'll see that his close leg and knee are also going to be up. That, that back leg is going to be in the distance. Let's draw the stripes on his jersey. His team sort of has a lightning bolt on the shoulder. Now I'm going to draw the bottom of his jersey. This is where the flag pops out of his belt, and there's going to be one on the other side of him too. Now here's the top of his leg in his shorts. I'm trying to keep some of the shape of his leg like a real bronco or a horse, and his cleats would still be sort of a hoof. They're going to be tilted up at us and we're going to see the spikes on the, on the bottom of the cleat. These are the laces of the cleats. And once you draw in the body parts, some of the sketch lines aren't needed, so you can erase those as you go. Here's the bottom of his leg, the back of his shorts, and I'm going to throw in some, some details, some hair. And a little bit of shading. So this is his back leg. It's going to be a little bit skinnier than the front leg because it's off in the distance. His foot's going to be pointing down and we're going to have two laces on top. I always draw my laces that are going into little— the metal, the metal holes of the shoe. I don't know the technical term for that. I probably should erase some sketch lines. That's Dusty. Thanks for watching. Make sure to sign your drawing, give it away, oh, add in any other details that you forgot. I'm gonna go ahead and put his number in there. Dusty's number 88. That's a wrap on Dusty. 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