Hey guys, we're back and we've got another monster video for you here. I'm loving the enthusiasm so far. Okay, I affectionately call this monster number four. But as usual, my kids not loving my names for these things right. So Joey, what do you think? What should we name this little birdie type?

Dude? Chirp Chirp. Yeah, like you know Chirp Chirp on a Tweet, tweet. Yeah, that's called tweet. Okay, we've got tweets sitting here. Okay, and hopefully you've got tweets sitting on a sheet at your feet know in front of you.

Wait to make jokes here, I know. Okay, so what I want you to do is what we're going to look at is we're going to draw over tweets. See some of the basic forms. So I'm going to kind of draw a circle here and see that I've got at least one circle. I've got a circle overlapping it. And I've actually got a circle inside of it too.

And now he looks pretty horrible. But it totally makes sense. Right? So why don't we? Why don't I give you a second joy? You doing it too?

Yeah, you draw over my little tweak drawing and see if you could find those basic forms. Basically, the head is more of like a squish. Yeah, right. Right. Right. It's more of like something squashed.

Right? Yeah, I guess not a good circle, big circles and then a squish. Oh, perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Now why don't we bring that off to the side, and we'll kind of very lightly roughen the big circle, the circle in the middle.

And then that squish marshmallow on top. Right. Something along those lines. Okay. And listen, I'm kind of doing the initial sketch in orange, but you It doesn't really matter. I just do it so you guys can see it a little bit better, just like Joey is sketching and blue, right?

Helps to make things clearer. Sometimes she continues in blue, but I'm going to use my darker pencil here to kind of make a little bit more clearer for you, right? Yeah. Okay, so from the head, why don't we start on this side here, over on this side, and we're just gonna bring it up like that. A nice squished head type of thing, right. And then on the inside here, we're gonna go with that belly.

I think I kind of lost my circle a little bit with my belly here. Okay, so started with the head kind of did up top and then kind of did the belly. You notice how I didn't finish the circles here. No need to finish those circles. Okay, that's, that's not in our reference here. If anything, we can see that the reference has these goofy little gills kind of going on here, right?

So that could be your kind of connection there if you want. Okay, down at the bottom here, we're gonna put One little foot, and then another little foot, and they can kind of follow that outward circle if you want. Doesn't have to, but it's nice and easy, right? You keep it up. Ah, I'm a bit slow, but it's okay. You know what?

Just like everybody watching at home, they're welcome to pause. Unfortunately, you can't pause me. No. I'm sure as my kid you kind of wish you could. Yep, definitely. You were supposed to say no.

Okay, so what's next, then? What I want to do next is go on the wings here, right? He kind of looks like a, something happened to a penguin maybe? I don't know. So we can see that one wing kind of comes down on that circle. And same on the other side comes down that circle.

But then from the bottom, the wing kind of comes up and out and up and out. Almost as if you know that it's flopped over and behind it. Right. Okay. What else we can draw the the mouse In the middle, we can draw the eyes. Now listen, what I kind of did here was I drew circles for the eyes and then cut them off like this.

Okay, so if I kind of come into it, the actual details are like this. Okay, yeah. And then the inside this inside part of that circle that I'd kind of sketched in there. I just erased it, as if it looks like we're looking at it from the front and this circle is slightly to the side or whatever, to the side of the head. It gives a head a little bit of form. And then we can draw the eye, you know, the iris and those kind of things in there.

But the little effects dots make it look a little bit cute. Yep, okay. Okay, we're missing the big fin. Why don't you depending on how you want it, but started in maybe the middle of the head here. Put it up. Pull it over and put it as if it's going behind the head right?

And then you can kind of bring this over as if it's kind of rounding the head a little bit. Come on in and erase it. Now listen how you want to do this you can make a big fan you can give them a little fan it's kind of like a little Mohawk right? And then you can kind of do these form lines going along with it right. Okay, what else are we missing here? missing all these little details.

We already got these gills in right? These little gills but now we can go in and add these other little guess what our belly button I don't know about the belly button thing but whichever we can add in these little things that are looking like scales. Right? Yeah, he I don't know he seems part fish. He's got gills but he also seems part penguin. I don't want to explain a little tweet here.

I don't think there's a lot of logic other than he probably goes in the water right? Yeah. Gate on the back of the fence. We can kind of if we want to add a little bit of detail into these right? As if it's you know, they've got slices in them. Yeah.

On the toes, we can add these little cute little toenails. toenails. Yeah. Yeah. And then our boy tweet is kind of done, right? Uh, what I like to do to kind of finish it off, if you can, is go around it with a darker outline, gives it sometimes that animated look, that animated character look that it has a stark outline.

You don't always have to do this depending on what you're trying to do. In the industry, sometimes we call this a bit of a halo. Because it doesn't necessarily it's not like inking how we darken things to bring it closer. This is a halo to follow the entire form of the character. It's a technique that can be used and can be abused, right? But for these these types of characters that we're doing In here, I think it's perfect.

It fits really well. When it doesn't fit well sometimes is when you've got a really big scene. Um, you've got a bunch of characters at play, and they've all got halos around them. It could look a little goofy. Okay, it looks. It gives a nice sticker effect kind of thing.

Like in punches the characters. Yeah. Right. This kind of looks like it's stamped onto the page here. Yeah, but not really, you know, always useful and stuff, right? So just keep that in mind.

You don't always have to have the Halo. So what do you think about your little tweet? Um, he's skinnier than the original one. I think mine's fatter than the original one. And mine's got a tiny Mohawk cuz I like the small Mohawk. Yeah, it does look cute.

Yep. And I don't know it looks kind of like a half bird fish. yours doesn't look like it's going in water much. I don't know. If you look at it from here. Oh, gosh.

Yeah, I kind of see it. Cool. I'm happy with mine. Alright. He's a little skinnier in the middle, but a little fatter in the shoulders and it still works, right? Hopefully you like your monster number four, otherwise known as sweet.

And if it didn't work out the first time, don't worry. rewind it, do it again. Have fun with it. Just remember those basic shapes right those circles and squished circles, right. Okay, have fun practicing guys. Good luck.