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Hi there, I'm Robby Cook.
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I am a character designer and retake animator
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on Star Trek: Lower Decks.
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And, today I'm
gonna walk you through
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how to draw one of my
personal favorite characters,
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Ensign D'Vana Tendi.
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Yes! Thank you
for this opportunity.
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I won't let you down.
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Ensign D'Vana Tendi
reporting for duty.
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So Tendi has
very round eyes.
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They're generally just circles.
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I like to kind of focus
on the eyes a little bit
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'cause I think that
those are really, like,
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the focal point of the face.
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They get a lot
of emotion across.
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With the main cast, they
all have black pupils,
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but Tendi is the one exception.
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She actually has green eyes.
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So we're gonna, kind of, draw
in this little nose of hers.
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Again, it's this, kind
of, triangular nose.
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It's got, like, a little
bit of a bend to it,
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and then we're gonna
add in Tendi's mouth.
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She's got, like,
this heart-shape to her.
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Like, this cheek
kind of comes up
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and then the jaw
kind of comes down
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to a little bit of a point.
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It's just a very soft point.
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Alright, kind of draw
in her eyebrows now.
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It's like my grandma says,
"I gotta draw my eyebrows."
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We're gonna draw
on Tendi's eyebrows now.
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And she's got kind of these
happy eyebrows right there.
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I sort of feel like I'm turning
into Bob Ross sometimes
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as I'm drawing her, you know,
just happy little eyebrows.
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Which, you know,
that is Tendi.
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She's just a happy
little ensign, you know.
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That's what we love about her.
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Let's see what the next
awesome anomalies are.
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They've got these very round,
fairly simple ear shapes.
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Then her hair, it's got this
kind of a swoopy vibe to it.
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It's gonna, kind of, come
over and down a little bit,
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like an S-curve, like that.
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And she's got this little
part where her hair starts
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and then this really
cool shaved head.
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We're just here to have fun.
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Tendi's got these
adorable little freckles.
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It's one of the things
that I love about her.
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She's got freckles,
I've got freckles.
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Just three little dots right
there for Tendi's freckles.
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So then her hair, it's kind
of this big, big shape.
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Her hair is probably my
favorite on the show.
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There's just something
really cool
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and really punk
about Tendi's hairstyle.
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Her uniform, she's got this
kind of a high neck uniform,
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and I just love the
Cali class uniforms.
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I think that the design
of them is so cool.
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It's got this, kind of, like,
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almost a biker jacket,
kind of, vibe to it.
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And she is an ensign.
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She's Ensign D'Vana Tendi
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so she's gonna
have just one pip,
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but she worked
hard for that pip.
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And you know, at this
point you can kind of go in
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and just shade it, you
know, it's your drawing.
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Like we could
add just a little bit
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of a shadow right here.
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Have fun drawing Tendi
'cause she's a fun character.
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And that's really what
the point of this is.
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And that is how you draw
Ensign D'Vana Tendi.
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Aw, thanks, guys!
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Just showed y'all at home how
to draw Ensign D'Vana Tendi,
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so I'm gonna show you how
to draw something new.
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Anytime that I'm
asked to draw someone
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that was a big
part of the show,
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I get super excited
and just feel honored
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that I can do that and
bring that to the show.
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In case you haven't
guessed by now,
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this is how you
draw Wil Wheaton,
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as if he were a character
on Star Trek: Lower Decks.
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I actually have a fully
rendered and colored design
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of Wil Wheaton's
character design.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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Whoa! It’s so cool!
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Wil, I hope you enjoyed
this drawing tutorial.
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I had a lot of fun
designing your character,
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and I hope you enjoy
your character design.
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Ha ha ha!
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It’s totally me!
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Oh, my God, I love it.
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Thank you to Robby
and the entire Lower Decks
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art department for
this incredible gift.
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I am delighted to see myself
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as a proper lower decker
and thrilled that I'm still an ensign.