Hi, my name is Marisa Livingston.
I'm the Character Design Lead on Star Trek: Lower Decks.
And today I'm gonna show you how to draw
one of my favorite characters from the show,
Dr. T'Ana.
You want me to see a doctor?
I am the doctor.
We're gonna get started with an underdrawing
to kind of lay out our design.
So, just start with a big circle for her head.
All right, let's just get this over with.
[meows]
Now, I'm gonna add some smaller circles.
These are going to represent her muzzle and her big eyes.
The characters on Lower Decks have pretty big eyes.
They're wide and circular and expressive.
Oh, s***.
So now that we kind of have our underdrawing very light
but we're gonna go over it darker,
I'm gonna start by putting kind of
like a pause symbol in between her eyes here.
And these are gonna be her furrowed brows.
She's pretty grumpy.
So from here, just big, straight heavy lines
for her dark, heavy, expressive eyebrows.
And I might even fill them in a little bit
even though we're just getting started.
It just helps the character come out faster.
And from here, we're gonna go into those expressive eyes.
Dr. T'Ana kind of expresses a cool aloofness.
She's been around the block.
You really showed me something today, kid.
Thank you, doctor. - But this isn't your patient,
so get the f*** out of our way.
And then we'll lay in her pupils,
which are slit pupils because she is a Caitian.
So unlike our other characters on Star Trek: Lower Decks,
she does not have the cute little circular pupils.
Hers are unique.
From here, three ridges in between her eyes.
This is just kinda like the top of her little,
her little muzzle, where the color of her fur is different.
Draw her muzzle out.
Big circle about the size of her eyes.
And then we'll lay in her cute little triangle nose.
And from here, we'll put in her,
she's got kind of a grimace.
She's got a little snaggle tooth in here.
So we've got her face kind of in here now
and we're gonna start building out her head.
Here comes the messy part.
Any slight error here can result in instant death.
We're gonna put two tufts of fur
on each of her cheeks, just like that.
And then she also has a cute little tuft
of kind of like platinum blond hair on her orange fur.
And that's going to have three tufts of fur on top,
but you know, if you're drawing Dr. T'Ana,
maybe she's real frazzled and like,
her hair is really all over the place.
[purrs]
She doesn't have perfectly pointed, triangle cat ears.
Hers are a little more down-turned
to kind of suit that weariness that she exudes.
The just tough, confident,
but also like a lot of rage underneath.
She can hiss at people, freak out.
[meows and hisses]
Cuss a lot.
F***ing f*** ***** you big f***
Out of this ear, she's got kind of like two semi-circles.
Maybe like somebody took a bite out of that ear, who knows.
And then she's got really cool, kinda crooked, zigzagged,
three whiskers coming off each side.
They were probably straight at one point
but now they've been through it.
[meows]
Oh, sorry.
And we wanna make sure that Dr. T'Ana exudes knowledge.
But with all that knowledge and experience,
you get a little tired.
So your shoulders droop.
Her posture is a little grouchy, a little droopy.
[growls]
And we'll draw two lines straight down
for the sides of her doctor coat.
Her lapels are just kind of this, simple triangle shape.
And then she's got just the edge
of a combadge sticking out underneath.
You know, she's ready whenever.
And then we'll draw in the lines of the super cool,
California-class uniform which has got
these cool angles that closes over on the side,
up on the collar.
And then, because she is the Chief Medical Officer
on the Cerritos, she's got three pips.
At least someone around here appreciates rank.
And that is how I would draw Dr. T'Ana
from Star Trek: Lower Decks.
And now you can, too.
Congratulations, you look like a f***ing scratching post.