These were the general rules. To create various styles, you can play with them, achieving a unique look for your character—showing their personality and ethnicity. photo courtesy Kayley Melissa YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uigT67t25v0 Rapunzel’s Daytime Wonder The mouth can show many emotions, and it's easier than it looks! You should simply start with a curve/two curves showing the shape you want to achieve, with the bottom of the lower lip marked. I have 10+ years of experience in using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, both for graphic design and for creating unique works of art as well. I hold a degree in graphic design, but nowadays I work as a freelance illustrator and a tutorial author. I specialize in creating realistic art, especially of animals, and I'm good at designing imaginary creatures in a realistic way. I'm a big fan of dragons and feline creatures!

Put the proportions on the body, adding some very simple forms—the chest, the waist, and the hips, and marking the joints. You don't have to use a ruler to measure the head—you can trust your eyes!Let's draw the lips now. They don't lie flat on the face—in the side view, you can see them between the nose and the chin. Mark this line. The same will happen to the diameters of each circle—in the front view, they will be straight, and in the side view completely curved. The in-between stages must be estimated according to this rule.

There is no such thing as a universal set of Disney body proportions, as each movie has its own style, but we can create an estimate. These statements seem to be true most of the time: Surprisingly, Disney hair is very easy to draw, because it's made deliberately simple for animation. It's supposed to bring a real hairstyle to mind without actually having any details. This effect is achieved by focusing more on the rhythm than on the individual hairs, and this is a must—how could you draw something consistently if it's highly detailed and complex in shape? So let's keep it simple! Place all the simplified body forms on the silhouette. You can still use the reference to see the perspective and the shape of body parts, but adjust them to the style you're going for. Now that you know the anatomy, let's practice the proportions in a more practical way. We're going to draw a generic Disney princess with the universal proportions I've just described. I'm a Polish artist with a great passion for creating new things—whether by drawing, digital painting, or photo manipulation.However, I can give you a tool for drawing every existing Disney character by modifying the rules we've just learned. I'll use Elsa from Frozen as an example, but you can use your favorite character for this exercise. Step 1 An ellipsoid should be attached to this sphere—this is the mouth and jaw area. Its bottom should obviously be placed at the bottom of the face. Finally, clean up the lines. The reference can be still very useful here, especially when it comes to the hands and feet!

The next step is to find the correct proportions of the face. Here I copied an image of Elsa's face (sometimes it's possible to find original character model sheets for this task) and marked the proportions on it—the line under the eyes, over the eyes, the eyebrows, the hairline, the chin, etc. Then I compared it to my generic Disney face to find out what makes Elsa special. I discovered, among other things, that: The sphere is then divided into six roughly equal parts—each half into thirds. Making one of the sixths smaller or bigger is a good way to differentiate a character. Although drawing is about lines, lines are only the end result of placing a 3D object into a flat surface. This means that if you want to draw something from imagination, you must be able to imagine the 3D object first, not the lines. So let's take a look at how a Disney-style head is constructed, so that you can create a visual model of it in your mind.Sketch the outline of the face. If you can imagine the position of the cheeks and chin, you can outline them now—if not, just draw a general outline that you will adjust later. As with any face part, lips come in many shapes and sizes. Younger characters can have narrow lips; older or more conventionally beautiful ones have big and full lips. Males usually have very subtle lips, with no outline and barely any pigment. Eyes are the most important part when it comes to showing the emotions of a character. You can achieve various emotions by rotating the eyes, putting the eyelids low or high, changing the side of the iris/pupil, and, most easily, by changing the shape and position of the eyebrows. You can learn more about drawing facial expressions from these tutorials: