#05 • Building on the Ball
We’ve looked at creating 3-D circles and now we’re gonna add other 3-D shapes to create cartoon heads.
Overlapping the ball with another shape
If we overlap one circle or another, we can imagine that these two shapes combined to make a new shape and this new shape will have a new contour line running through it center. we can imagine this top ball as a cranium, hard and immovable, and the new shape was drawn as the jowls, which jowls which are soft and pliable these gels can squash and stretch, but we don’t have to stick to just two ovals. What about an oval in a rectangle to create a face with a more squared off jaw and realistic proportions or what about a rectangle and a triangle to create a more stylistic design
2. Placing Features
If we come back to having two ovals we can use are midline contours as a map of sorts for where to place our features if we like more cartoonish proportions, we can place the eyes right at or above the center line in the nose right underneath the ears will fall right in the middle to change this to more realistic proportions. We can use our square job taper it off a bit and place the eyes lower than the center line and the bridge of the nose right at the cross-section. I know the bottom of the nose would be halfway down and the mouth halfway between the bottom of the chin and the nose.
3. Combing more shapes for the features
To add features to the face, we can simply add more shapes more 3-D shapes consider spheres for the eyes along oval for the nose disc for the years. The mouth could be align or it could be a shape that we cut out of the main shape when it’s open for animals we can think of more unique shape shapes 3-D shapes to create the snout or floppy yearsor triangles for cat. Consider how these shapes intersect and sink into our original form.
Now Let ‘s take these ideas and spend 10 minutes turning shapes into characters
Assignment: Fill a page with manipulated shapes and then add expressions.