This content provides a detailed guide on how to draw characters in the distinctive art style of the animated series Gravity Falls, encouraging creativity and personalization.
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Hi, my name is Echo and today
I'm going to show you how to draw yourself in the style of the amazing cartoon, Gravity Falls. Gravity falls is a disney cartoon about
Two twelve year old kids named Dipper and Mabel Pines. These kids have crazy
supernatural and magical adventures while staying at their great uncle Stan's mystery shack. The chances are if you're watching this you already knew that, but
let's not get ahead of ourselves. Before we can begin growing in the gravity fall style, we need to break down the gravity falls style.
Let's me breaking it down. Yeah
I'm a loser ha
The characters of Gravity Falls come in many Shapes and sizes.
But they can generally be organized into three age groups:
Kids, teenagers, and adults. If you feel like you're not the best artist or you don't really know where to begin
I've gone ahead
and I've made some basic outlines that you can use as a starting point. If you want to print trace or download these images.
I put a link to them down in the description. The body of the citizens of gravity falls can be large, small, big, thin, and sometimes just
flat-out strange. So don't feel like you have to confine yourself to these basic body types. For example
I have pretty big hips and thick legs, so I might draw my body type more like this.
This is why I rarely film my legs. The head. When it comes to the facial shape, Gravity falls characters
have a wide range of diversity. In general, younger characters tend to have round faces
while adults and teens tend to have more developed chins.
New we're going to talk about the face.
Starting with the eyes the eyes. The eyes in the gravity fall style are almost always perfectly round circles with black dots for pupils
Although many characters have various types of eyelashes and eyewear. Does your person wear glasses?
That's an old board game reference.
Something worth noting is that almost every main character has their eyes right next to each other although there are some background characters who
have space between their eyes. When it comes to the nose, most noses are shaped kind of like a "c"
blocking the bottom section of one of the eyes
But this is once again
something that comes in all shapes and [sizes] so you should probably take a look at the show and various characters to see what they've
done. A great example of this is grunkle Stan
What is that nose? The last part of the face that I want to mention is the mouth.
Which is usually just a simple line although there are a handful of female characters who have been designed with lips. And now a brief
intermission
Now let's move on to drawing hair. Hair is a very complex thing to draw in general
just because there are so many different ways to draw hair styles. When I was first learning how to draw, I used to buy hair
Style Magazines, and then use those as a form of inspiration. I've also made a video drawing a bunch of hairstyles
So if you want, you can go watch that and use any of them as any form of inspiration
Or you can just trace them
I am totally fine with that. Hair is really complicated. And now a brief analysis of limbs
In this art style, arms and legs are drawn in various thicknesses
So don't feel like you have to confine yourself to a certain thickness when it comes to the hands of the gravity falls art style
Everything goes out the window
Because apparently gravity falls characters can have four or five or even six fingers.
In the show, most kids and teens have four fingers while most adults have five so do they just grow a
finger at some point? And now the last thing I want to talk about are shoes. Usually the shoes in this show are
Extremely simple. Sometimes just being a dividing line in a foot shape
I might be making a draw 50 shoes video just for the sake of making this a little bit easier. The most important thing to
remember when you're trying to draw on the gravity fall style, is to be creative. Not even character designers themselves
follow all of these guidelines down to the last detail. A prime example of this is the character bill cipher
He goes against every single observation that I just made. He doesn't fit into any age group
He doesn't even have a body, his facial shape is a triangle,
he only has one eye that isn't round, he has no hair or fingers at all, and his limbs are just lines.
How am I supposed to critically analyze a style when he goes against every single aspect of it?
You just enjoy going against the natural order. Don't you. And that is why bill cipher is my favorite character
So now that we have an unreasonably in-depth understanding of the gravity falls art style, let's put it to good use. First thing
I'm going to recommend. Is that you get a photo of yourself to use as a reference
I'm going to be using this one. First thing
I usually do in under any new characters to start out with a pencil sketch
of the basic figure
That way if I decide that I want to change something or if I don't like something I can just erase them redraw it without
having to completely start over. Then once I'm content with the pencil outline, I go over it with a fine felt-tip pen and thicken the
lines as I see fit. Then once the ink dries, I can erase the pencil and scan it for coloring. At the moment
I'm doing all of my digital coloring with a free program called gimp which is a very strange name for a software. If you're coloring
your character, it's worth pointing out that gravity falls as a show doesn't usually incorporate shadows into their character animation, but uh
If you decide to make use of this tutorial and either draw yourself or an original character
Please send me a link over Twitter or put it in the comment section of this video
Here's some of the awesome artwork from the last tutorial
You're cool. Subscribe if you want more of my face and I'll see you around. Bye! Is anyone else still
desperately waiting at the very last episode of gravity falls to come out? I know I am
What the heck man?
Cat bug bug bug you're a cat bug you're a cat bug let's be a cat bug together
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