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Hi, my name is Marisa Livingston.

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I'm the Character Design Lead
on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

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And today I'm gonna show
you how to draw

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one of my favorite
characters from the show,

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Dr. T'Ana.

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You want me to see a doctor?

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I am the doctor.

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We're gonna get started
with an underdrawing

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to kind of lay out our design.

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So, just start with a
big circle for her head.

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All right, let's just get this over with.

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[meows]

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Now, I'm gonna add some
smaller circles.

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These are going to represent
her muzzle and her big eyes.

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The characters on Lower
Decks have pretty big eyes.

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They're wide and circular and
expressive.

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Oh, s***.

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So now that we kind of have
our underdrawing very light

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but we're gonna go over it darker,

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I'm gonna start by putting kind of

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like a pause symbol in
between her eyes here.

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And these are gonna be
her furrowed brows.

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She's pretty grumpy.

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So from here, just big,
straight heavy lines

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for her dark, heavy,
expressive eyebrows.

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And I might even fill them
in a little bit

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even though we're just
getting started.

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It just helps the
character come out faster.

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And from here, we're gonna go
into those expressive eyes.

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Dr. T'Ana kind of
expresses a cool aloofness.

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She's been around the block.

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You really showed me something today, kid.

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Thank you, doctor.
- But this isn't your patient,

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so get the f*** out of our way.

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And then we'll lay in her pupils,

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which are slit pupils
because she is a Caitian.

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So unlike our other characters
on Star Trek: Lower Decks,

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she does not have the cute
little circular pupils.

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Hers are unique.

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From here, three ridges
in between her eyes.

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This is just kinda like
the top of her little,

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her little muzzle, where the
color of her fur is different.

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Draw her muzzle out.

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Big circle about the
size of her eyes.

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And then we'll lay in her
cute little triangle nose.

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And from here, we'll put in her,

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she's got kind of a grimace.

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She's got a little snaggle
tooth in here.

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So we've got her face kind of
in here now

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and we're gonna start
building out her head.

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Here comes the messy part.

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Any slight error here can
result in instant death.

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We're gonna put two tufts of fur

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on each of her cheeks,
just like that.

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And then she also has
a cute little tuft

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of kind of like platinum
blond hair on her orange fur.

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And that's going to have
three tufts of fur on top,

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but you know, if you're
drawing Dr. T'Ana,

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maybe she's real frazzled and like,

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her hair is really all over the place.

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[purrs]

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She doesn't have perfectly
pointed, triangle cat ears.

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Hers are a little more down-turned

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to kind of suit that
weariness that she exudes.

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The just tough, confident,

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but also like a lot of
rage underneath.

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She can hiss at people, freak out.

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[meows and hisses]

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Cuss a lot.

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F***ing f*** ***** you big f***

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Out of this ear, she's got
kind of like two semi-circles.

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Maybe like somebody took a bite
out of that ear, who knows.

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And then she's got really
cool, kinda crooked, zigzagged,

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three whiskers coming
off each side.

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They were probably
straight at one point

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but now they've been through it.

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[meows]

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Oh, sorry.

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And we wanna make sure that
Dr. T'Ana exudes knowledge.

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But with all that
knowledge and experience,

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you get a little tired.

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So your shoulders droop.

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Her posture is a little
grouchy, a little droopy.

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[growls]

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And we'll draw two
lines straight down

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for the sides of her doctor coat.

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Her lapels are just kind of
this, simple triangle shape.

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And then she's got just the edge

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of a combadge sticking
out underneath.

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You know, she's ready whenever.

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And then we'll draw in the
lines of the super cool,

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California-class uniform
which has got

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these cool angles that
closes over on the side,

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up on the collar.

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And then, because she is
the Chief Medical Officer

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on the Cerritos, she's
got three pips.

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At least someone around
here appreciates rank.

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And that is how I would
draw Dr. T'Ana

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from Star Trek: Lower Decks.

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And now you can, too.

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Congratulations, you look like
a f***ing scratching post.