- Hi, everyone.
Welcome to the Draw with Pixar series.
My name is Benjamin Su.
I've been an animator at Pixar for over 10 years now.
Some of the movies I've worked on include "Inside Out,"
"Onward," and "Toy Story 3" and "4."
And today, we're going to be drawing Buzz from "Toy Story."
So I'm doing a cartoony, stylized version of Buzz today.
Buzz's upper body, along with this helmet,
is basically one large circle.
I'm putting a guide line from helmet
to the bottom of the body.
This helps me determine the direction his body's facing.
I'm splitting the circle in half,
so the lower half is the body, and the upper half
is the helmet, the dome of the helmet.
I'm going to draw the control panel in there.
And he's got these two stripes that come down from both sides.
Looking at the guideline again, help
me figure out where the center line is so I
can add the top panel part.
He's got one, big button on the right side
and three smaller, oval-shaped buttons on the left.
And then I'm going to add--
open up those lines a little bit more.
I'm going to add a little logo just above the panel.
Just define the body line just a little bit lower.
Make sure you always keep your initial lines light
until you find the right line, and you
can always darken it later.
I'm creating a little gap at the bottom of the torso
to add his lower half later.
I'm using the guide line I drew earlier
to reference the direction of Buzz's face,
adding a quick eye guide line so I can line up his eyes.
See, let's darken those eyes a little bit.
And I'm going to add the eyebrows in.
Have the one eyebrow raised slightly
and give you a little half-lidded look,
and add his iris looking over to his right.
Let's put his nose in as well.
Yeah.
Define the head shape a little bit more.
His ear is basically a half circle.
And his mouth is a triangular shape.
I'm adding a line for his upper teeth
and a little oval shape for the tongue.
And then you can shade in his mouth, sort of darken
his eye lines a little bit more, and then
add the swirl on his chin.
And then draw the rest of his headgear,
and then we can shade that in.
Yeah.
As we move down to the lower body,
his spine is basically a rectangle split
up into three to four sections.
And his hip is kind of a half-circle shape.
The legs, we will treat the legs as two long rectangles.
I like to draw the little line below just
to see where his feet's going to be
at and also just to make sure the feet don't
go over the page.
And then the feet are basically just two half-circles.
And the knee pads are kind of diamond shapes
in the middle of the leg.
Also, he's got these folds that just comes just above his feet.
I'm just going to go clean up the lines
for these shapes first.
I'm going to put a fold there in the feet.
So he's got another little padding
at the bottom of the feet, so we'll
just add that line in there.
Draw the shadow under his feet just to give
him a little bit more weight.
Yeah.
I'm going to quickly draw his arms in stick figure form.
This way, it allows me to figure out if the length of each joint
is correct.
And then basically treat the arms
as two rectangular shapes that connect,
and it tapers towards the hand.
The hand is basically a square.
And his elbow and shoulder joints are two round balls
that connect to the rectangles.
Add those little joint circles in there, the little logo
sticker on his biceps.
With this hand that's pressed against his hip,
so we're not going to see all the fingers.
So it's only going to add just a little,
few cube shapes for the top of the fingers that we see.
Same idea for the other arm.
Two connected rectangular shapes that taper
down towards the hand.
Let's see.
Add the circle for the shoulder.
Little joint there.
And then another circle for the elbow.
Square for the finger adding four of those little squares
for the finger.
Yeah.
Now that I've finished all the line work,
I can go in and do some shading on Buzz.
When you're shading, you need to figure
out where your light source is.
In this case, I want the light source
to be coming from the right side of Buzz and just
above his head.
Since his body shape are all very simple rectangles,
circles, and square shapes, it makes adding
the shadow a little easier.
If you're not sure how to add shadow or shading to a shape,
I would recommend just grabbing something from home,
like a baseball, for reference, to reference a circular shape,
and put it under a lamp to see how the shadow will look.
If you want to learn more about drawing using basic shapes,
a great book to look at is "Cartoon
Animation" by Preston Blair.
Another great book -- it's a little bit more advanced --
which talks about Disney animation
and how hand-drawn animation films are made
is called "The Illusion of Life" by Ollie
Johnston and Frank Thomas.
It also talks about the history of some
of the animators that helped make the classic Disney
animated movies.
It's a great read.
These are two of the great resources that have
helped me when I was in school.
So you can continue to darken the lines
a little bit more if you like.
Let's shade in the helmet there a little bit.
Darken his eyes, his mouth.
Yeah.
Hope you guys had fun drawing Buzz.
Thanks so much for drawing along with me.
I hope that was fun.
Feel free to share your drawings using
the hashtag #DrawWithPixar.
And I hope everyone's keeping safe, and keep drawing!
Till next time.