WEBVTT 1 01:00:03.975 --> 01:00:06.978 Howdy. I'm Barry J. Kelly from Titmouse Cartoons. 2 01:00:06.978 --> 01:00:07.979 And I'm the Supervising Director 3 01:00:07.979 --> 01:00:09.480 of Star Trek: Lower Decks. 4 01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:10.648 I'm gonna draw some Shaxs. 5 01:00:10.648 --> 01:00:12.442 Yes! 6 01:00:13.526 --> 01:00:14.360 No! 7 01:00:16.321 --> 01:00:18.948 Doing a drawing is always, you know, a little daunting, 8 01:00:18.948 --> 01:00:20.408 when you're trying to put that first line down, 9 01:00:20.408 --> 01:00:22.076 so I usually have to warm up a little bit. 10 01:00:22.076 --> 01:00:23.494 Usually, I start with just some, like, 11 01:00:23.494 --> 01:00:24.746 little strokes on the paper 12 01:00:24.746 --> 01:00:26.748 and then, like, little silhouettes of the characters 13 01:00:26.748 --> 01:00:27.999 and things like that. 14 01:00:27.999 --> 01:00:30.126 Or sometimes, like, a good trick my friend told me, 15 01:00:30.126 --> 01:00:32.253 was, like, "Try to draw light." 16 01:00:32.253 --> 01:00:34.047 And if you're trying to figure out how to draw light, 17 01:00:34.047 --> 01:00:37.759 maybe you just draw, like, a little light circle at the top. 18 01:00:37.759 --> 01:00:40.470 And, kind of, don't draw darker than that for a little bit, 19 01:00:40.470 --> 01:00:42.597 until you, like, know what you're drawing. 20 01:00:42.597 --> 01:00:45.183 The reason why I'm choosing to draw Shaxs, 21 01:00:45.183 --> 01:00:45.808 I mean, I kind of feel like, 22 01:00:45.808 --> 01:00:48.478 muscled meaty men is kind of my jam. 23 01:00:48.478 --> 01:00:52.398 That is outstanding! Gotta be true to yourself. 24 01:00:52.398 --> 01:00:53.483 Am I right, bears? 25 01:00:53.483 --> 01:00:56.319 Shaxs is really fun and intense. 26 01:00:56.319 --> 01:00:58.571 And he's kind of got these, like, gorilla proportions 27 01:00:58.571 --> 01:01:00.907 that are really fun to work with. 28 01:01:00.907 --> 01:01:03.660 For drawing the Shaxs drawing I'm gonna do, 29 01:01:03.660 --> 01:01:05.244 I kind of look for a pose that I like, 30 01:01:05.244 --> 01:01:07.413 and then I kind of start drawing it from different angles, 31 01:01:07.413 --> 01:01:09.165 to see which angle I wanna land on. 32 01:01:09.165 --> 01:01:12.669 It's naked time! 33 01:01:12.669 --> 01:01:14.170 I usually kind of fill up a sheet. 34 01:01:14.170 --> 01:01:16.964 It's like I wanna use every nook and cranny of a page 35 01:01:16.964 --> 01:01:19.133 just 'cause, like, I guess I feel, like, 36 01:01:19.133 --> 01:01:20.301 what's daunting about drawing is, like, 37 01:01:20.301 --> 01:01:21.719 sometimes you wanna make, 38 01:01:21.719 --> 01:01:23.846 you don't wanna use up your tools. 39 01:01:23.846 --> 01:01:26.557 But I think you just gotta, like, forget that 40 01:01:26.557 --> 01:01:27.684 and just use your tools 41 01:01:27.684 --> 01:01:29.185 and use your paper as much as you can, 42 01:01:29.185 --> 01:01:31.896 like, don't be precious with it. 43 01:01:31.896 --> 01:01:33.022 Go ahead and make mistakes. 44 01:01:33.022 --> 01:01:33.940 That's kind of what this 45 01:01:33.940 --> 01:01:35.441 whole rough stage is for. 46 01:01:35.441 --> 01:01:36.776 Ah, come on, man! 47 01:01:36.776 --> 01:01:38.903 This is your chance to prove you got what it takes. 48 01:01:38.903 --> 01:01:40.988 I never really went to art school, 49 01:01:40.988 --> 01:01:43.366 but I'd learned a lot about art stuff in general, 50 01:01:43.366 --> 01:01:45.660 just from copying and observing. 51 01:01:45.660 --> 01:01:47.662 And it took me quite a long time 52 01:01:47.662 --> 01:01:48.955 to catch up on my own. 53 01:01:48.955 --> 01:01:51.374 But just one thing that art teachers 54 01:01:51.374 --> 01:01:52.417 say over and over again 55 01:01:52.417 --> 01:01:53.668 is, "Silhouette, silhouette, silhouette." 56 01:01:53.668 --> 01:01:56.421 And it's only hitting me now, like 15 years later, 57 01:01:56.421 --> 01:01:59.048 of, like, a silhouette does a lot of work for you. 58 01:01:59.048 --> 01:02:01.718 Like, if you, even when we're storyboarding the show, 59 01:02:01.718 --> 01:02:02.969 we're trying to cram in, like, 60 01:02:02.969 --> 01:02:05.096 a bunch of silhouettes into one shot. 61 01:02:05.096 --> 01:02:07.181 Shoot for a clear silhouette 62 01:02:07.181 --> 01:02:09.892 and you'll get yourself, like, a pretty clean drawing. 63 01:02:09.892 --> 01:02:12.562 New shift on deck. Get outta my chair! 64 01:02:12.562 --> 01:02:14.272 Ah! Huh, thank you. It's a great honor. 65 01:02:14.272 --> 01:02:14.939 All right. 66 01:02:14.939 --> 01:02:16.816 I feel like I've warmed up some Shaxs enough, 67 01:02:16.816 --> 01:02:19.277 I'm gonna switch over to the final drawing. 68 01:02:22.113 --> 01:02:24.323 I always start with the head. 69 01:02:24.323 --> 01:02:26.075 The head kind of determines the size 70 01:02:26.075 --> 01:02:27.285 of the rest of the body. 71 01:02:28.202 --> 01:02:29.620 Because he's a big dude, 72 01:02:29.620 --> 01:02:31.247 his head's probably a bit smaller. 73 01:02:32.665 --> 01:02:34.751 Put his chest out, like a hero. 74 01:02:36.794 --> 01:02:38.755 Once you kind of set up the head, 75 01:02:38.755 --> 01:02:39.589 I mean, I'm kind of like, 76 01:02:39.589 --> 01:02:42.258 trying to give, like, how much space he's gonna take up 77 01:02:42.258 --> 01:02:44.135 on the entire page. 78 01:02:44.135 --> 01:02:44.969 So I'm trying to, like, put, 79 01:02:44.969 --> 01:02:45.803 I'm trying to figure out, 80 01:02:45.803 --> 01:02:47.513 like, how far his feet are gonna go down. 81 01:02:47.513 --> 01:02:50.308 So that I know, when I go to put the final lines down, 82 01:02:50.308 --> 01:02:51.642 I know kind of roughly where his, 83 01:02:51.642 --> 01:02:53.644 what his whole size and shape are. 84 01:02:53.644 --> 01:02:55.563 And I'm not worrying about, like, details or anatomy, 85 01:02:55.563 --> 01:02:58.900 I'm just trying to put big blocky shapes down. 86 01:02:58.900 --> 01:03:00.610 And put his leg on something. 87 01:03:02.195 --> 01:03:04.572 Maybe he's saving Commander Billups. 88 01:03:04.572 --> 01:03:05.990 No! Do it now! 89 01:03:05.990 --> 01:03:07.533 You do it right this second! 90 01:03:07.533 --> 01:03:11.621 There's something about Shaxs' face, he's got more jaw. 91 01:03:11.621 --> 01:03:12.872 So it's kind of like, 92 01:03:13.873 --> 01:03:18.169 your eyes and your ear to your nose, 93 01:03:18.169 --> 01:03:19.837 kind of all falls in line and like, 94 01:03:19.837 --> 01:03:20.671 that's kind of how, like, 95 01:03:20.671 --> 01:03:22.089 your face ends up proportionate, right? 96 01:03:22.089 --> 01:03:23.508 And all of us, if you're more proportionate, 97 01:03:23.508 --> 01:03:24.884 it's kind of like evenly distributed, 98 01:03:24.884 --> 01:03:25.718 but, like, you know, 99 01:03:25.718 --> 01:03:27.011 so in order to make different character faces, 100 01:03:27.011 --> 01:03:28.763 you kind of like, move the eyes up, 101 01:03:28.763 --> 01:03:30.056 bring the chin down, stuff like that. 102 01:03:30.056 --> 01:03:31.557 So Shaxs is one of our characters 103 01:03:31.557 --> 01:03:32.683 where the eyes in the face 104 01:03:32.683 --> 01:03:35.019 are a little bit higher up on his head, 105 01:03:35.019 --> 01:03:36.604 so that his mouth and his chin 106 01:03:38.272 --> 01:03:41.067 get a little bit bigger. 107 01:03:42.235 --> 01:03:44.737 One thing that always helps make Shaxs look like Shaxs, 108 01:03:44.737 --> 01:03:46.364 is making him kinda crazy, 109 01:03:46.364 --> 01:03:47.740 which means tiny pupils. 110 01:03:47.740 --> 01:03:50.660 You're lucky I'm so spiritually centered, or I'd snap! 111 01:03:50.660 --> 01:03:51.494 He's always got, like, 112 01:03:51.494 --> 01:03:54.205 this thousand-yard stare on. 113 01:03:54.205 --> 01:03:55.623 I'm like, he came back from the dead, 114 01:03:55.623 --> 01:03:56.582 he died, he's Bajoran, 115 01:03:56.582 --> 01:03:58.417 he's been in battle most of his life 116 01:03:58.417 --> 01:03:59.335 and he's super intense. 117 01:03:59.335 --> 01:04:00.753 So, like, anytime there's an opportunity 118 01:04:00.753 --> 01:04:02.213 to make him super intense. 119 01:04:02.213 --> 01:04:06.092 We're sparing you dark truths about scientific depravity, 120 01:04:06.092 --> 01:04:08.678 that would haunt you for the rest of your days. 121 01:04:08.678 --> 01:04:10.054 I'm gonna switch over to a pen here, 122 01:04:10.054 --> 01:04:14.517 a super-fine black micro Rapidograph kind of pen. 123 01:04:14.517 --> 01:04:15.351 There's a lot of pressure 124 01:04:15.351 --> 01:04:17.645 to get the details on the face right of any drawing, 125 01:04:17.645 --> 01:04:20.773 just because that's where everyone's eyes go first. 126 01:04:20.773 --> 01:04:22.567 And Shaxs has a kind of like a cloudy eye, 127 01:04:22.567 --> 01:04:25.278 it's a little bit hard to do with black ink. 128 01:04:25.278 --> 01:04:26.863 And he's got a little scar here. 129 01:04:28.447 --> 01:04:30.157 One thing about Shaxs' mustache too, 130 01:04:30.157 --> 01:04:31.909 is that it's kind of his upper lip. 131 01:04:32.827 --> 01:04:35.329 I'm drawing his neck a bit thicker 132 01:04:35.329 --> 01:04:36.831 probably than our cartoon does, 133 01:04:36.831 --> 01:04:39.709 but my meaty muscled men have thick necks. 134 01:04:39.709 --> 01:04:42.420 This is going sideways. I recommend we beam out, now. 135 01:04:42.420 --> 01:04:43.838 So, now I'm kind of generally just starting 136 01:04:43.838 --> 01:04:47.258 with the outer edge of his whole body, the outer contour. 137 01:04:47.258 --> 01:04:48.926 'Cause it's gonna kind of define 138 01:04:48.926 --> 01:04:51.137 where the details need to go on the inside. 139 01:04:52.680 --> 01:04:53.514 And as I do this, 140 01:04:53.514 --> 01:04:55.391 I'm not exactly doing my blue lines now. 141 01:04:55.391 --> 01:04:56.642 Now I'm starting to, like, give him, 142 01:04:56.642 --> 01:04:58.644 his legs a little bit of anatomy. 143 01:04:58.644 --> 01:04:59.645 For the most part, 144 01:05:00.980 --> 01:05:01.939 drawing a straight line 145 01:05:01.939 --> 01:05:03.149 gets you most of the way there, 146 01:05:03.149 --> 01:05:03.983 just a straight leg. 147 01:05:03.983 --> 01:05:06.444 But just a little bit of, like, 148 01:05:06.444 --> 01:05:09.071 extra volume along that line 149 01:05:09.071 --> 01:05:11.657 kind of gives us the hint of his quads. 150 01:05:13.659 --> 01:05:14.911 Shaxs also has tiny feet. 151 01:05:16.495 --> 01:05:17.663 And baby hands. 152 01:05:17.663 --> 01:05:21.167 Ah. That place did take a lot out of me. 153 01:05:21.167 --> 01:05:23.252 But not my killer serve. Ha! 154 01:05:23.252 --> 01:05:24.837 Aw, Shaxs, you always get me. 155 01:05:24.837 --> 01:05:26.797 He's saving Billups from something. 156 01:05:26.797 --> 01:05:28.799 If you have a little bit of a story, 157 01:05:28.799 --> 01:05:30.593 it always helps in the drawing. 158 01:05:30.593 --> 01:05:32.303 Certainly in my head, it helps a lot. 159 01:05:32.303 --> 01:05:34.972 Just to, like, make it funny. 160 01:05:36.182 --> 01:05:38.225 The story will also help you define the characters. 161 01:05:38.225 --> 01:05:40.728 'Cause of, like, Shaxs having a scar on his eye is a story. 162 01:05:40.728 --> 01:05:42.063 Like, it's like, where did he get that? 163 01:05:42.063 --> 01:05:42.855 Why did he have that? 164 01:05:42.855 --> 01:05:43.981 And it gives us, like, a little bit 165 01:05:43.981 --> 01:05:45.274 of information about the character, 166 01:05:45.274 --> 01:05:46.567 that he's maybe seen a lot of stuff. 167 01:05:47.652 --> 01:05:48.986 Let it all out. 168 01:05:50.279 --> 01:05:52.531 I can do some, like, foliage and stuff back here. 169 01:05:52.531 --> 01:05:54.367 And again, like, not trying to fill it in 170 01:05:54.367 --> 01:05:55.576 with a bunch of detail yet, 171 01:05:55.576 --> 01:05:57.745 just trying to hit the silhouette of some trees 172 01:05:57.745 --> 01:05:59.789 and some leaves and stuff like that. 173 01:05:59.789 --> 01:06:01.457 And then, like, I'll, you kinda see 174 01:06:01.457 --> 01:06:04.001 I kind of, like, drew some underwear here for him. 175 01:06:04.001 --> 01:06:06.462 I'll kind of render that out with parallel lines. 176 01:06:06.462 --> 01:06:08.547 Just don't put pressure on what you're doing. 177 01:06:08.547 --> 01:06:10.091 Every day I'm working with artists 178 01:06:10.091 --> 01:06:12.301 who are all at different skill levels 179 01:06:12.301 --> 01:06:14.053 and trying to get everybody on the same page. 180 01:06:14.053 --> 01:06:15.262 And it's just trying to get everyone 181 01:06:15.262 --> 01:06:16.097 to be comfortable with what 182 01:06:16.097 --> 01:06:17.932 they're doing and not be afraid. 183 01:06:17.932 --> 01:06:19.976 You don't have to know how to draw everything, 184 01:06:19.976 --> 01:06:22.019 but you should at least be skilled enough 185 01:06:22.019 --> 01:06:23.813 to look at something and be able to draw anything. 186 01:06:23.813 --> 01:06:28.651 I'm going to make a cute little ashtray for my incense. 187 01:06:28.651 --> 01:06:30.194 It's going to look like a puppy. 188 01:06:30.194 --> 01:06:31.654 And maybe as I'm finishing up, 189 01:06:31.654 --> 01:06:34.657 I'll just kinda give the edges just a little once-over, 190 01:06:34.657 --> 01:06:36.617 just to make sure they aren't as rough. 191 01:06:38.577 --> 01:06:39.996 All right, pencils down. 192 01:06:41.163 --> 01:06:43.082 And there's Shaxs and Billups on the run. 193 01:06:43.082 --> 01:06:44.625 Thanks for drawing with me today. 194 01:06:45.751 --> 01:06:46.794 We did it! 195 01:06:46.794 --> 01:06:49.630 I don't know what we did, but we did it!