How to Draw the Mouth (2020 Edition)

[Music] hey everyone cassin here and in this video I'm going to be teaching you how to draw the mouth okay so when I think about drawing I always start like if I'm drawing the features like how to draw the mouth or the nose or the eyes I'm always going to start with a head for me anyway I don't like just starting with um features by themselves so for this I kind of feel like well you know I should be showing you uh just the mouth because why bother with the head but then uh that's not how I do it so I feel like I would be um not really showing you the way I actually do things if I just skip the general head so I'm just making a head General head shape and that'll help when it comes to uh doing um the mouth so all right where's the mouth roughly in this General head so we have the top of the head here we have the front plane of the face here so like this is the top think about the head that's a top this is the front plane now all of this and this part is like going to the side plane this part's going to the side plane to here that's a temple area all right so our mouth if you divide the this in half and I'm I'm not dividing it from here in half I'm dividing it from here cuz that's the top of the head cuz this head's kind of slightly tilted down um halfway you'll get the eyes Okay so the eyes are roughly here so that one's easy eyes halfway no problem all right what about nose well halfway from the nose to the CH or the eyes to the chin is the nose boom that one's easy okay so now for mouths though uh you get different um different people saying different things and the reality is there's not a right answer it's not like um you have to even this halfway eye thing is not perfect and the halfway nose thing is not perfect uh cuz people just have different faces um but it's a general like generally it works and if you make a face like this it's not going to look weird people aren't going to think that your proportions are off um so for mths sometimes you hear halfway um I prefer to do it more where you divide from the bottom of the nose here um and you divide from here to here into three so boop boop and that's where the the separation is for the mouth so we've got um uh the nose and then the mouth and then on this third so first third uh from the bottom of the nose gets you to where the the lips meet and then the next one gets you where this uh changes Direction so it's actually easier to see on the side if I draw um a side view have this face again I'm kind of having to draw the whole head uh sorry that's just how how I see things uh there's the nose Okay so if we divide this into three one two this is where the lips meet and then this is kind of for me what I do is I make that where the chin uh comes out so let's say this is the lower lip and then this is the upper lip so this area here is kind of where the chin comes out and because of that you have this area that's usually a little bit in Shadow so you often get a bit of a shadow here and that's not the shadow of the lower lip all uh because like the lower lip in some cases it can be here like that but in other cases it can be lower or it can be higher if you have thin lips so um this isn't the bottom of the lower lips but it can be does that make sense like because you could have lips that are very thin like that or you could have lips that are very thick like that um it really depends all right so let's look a bit more at the side view now and see what the these um these bumps are so from the side you have the nose and then we go down and then this part of the nose this isn't how to draw noses but whatever okay this part of the nose can go like straight like this it can go up like this or it can go uh uh down like this depending on what kind of nose you're dealing with but the general point is that the nose comes to meet the rest of the face then you get this little part in the middle um I think it's called fil trim or something I don't remember what it's called exactly forgive me for making a tutorial about mouths and knowing nothing um then you go out a bit so it goes like nose and then this straight part then you go out a little bit so there's a little bit of a shelf there now it's actually pretty important when it comes to uh shading them out so just remember there's a little shelf there then you go down for the upper lip so the upper lip kind of goes down but depending on the face your upper lip may be a lot more straight some people have more of a uh a straight up and down upper lip and some people have like a bit of a curve and some people have quite a quite a big curve but that it generally goes down then it comes out for the lower lip then it goes down again so boop boop boop boop then we get a bit straight again and here's that part where the chin changes Direction then you have the bottom of the chin so all these uh areas can change depending on the face that you're dealing with but they all kind of exist right like you could have a face where um let's just do it right beside it let's have this part extra long and then it kind of Curves up and we can have a nostril going down and then we can have the lips kind of going straight we can have this lower lip kind of coming out forward and then this goes in and then this kind of goes like that so now we have uh quite a different shape but we still have these things see it goes like this way then you get this long portion then it changes direction again this time we're going more up then you have this part that goes straight down then we go out again see that's that out part then you go down then you go out again in this case a lot more than this one cuz most of the time the upper lip is um more out and then the lower lip is more in but sometimes the lower lip is more out then we're going down and then here uh the nose is or the chin isn't jutting out it's actually going in but this still is a direction change so we still change directions so all right now we have those components so let's talk about how that works on this so when it comes to mouths generally the darkest area on a closed mouth is right here in the the corners and then a little bit here often is another area that gets dark and these are occlusion Shadows occlusion what that means is light has a hard time getting in uh there uh the light is being uded it's not it's not going in there uh because the lips are touching so light has a hard time going in now if I made it just straight like this that's very boring and it doesn't really represent what's happening with the mouth um because with your lips they're very soft they're touching and because of that you get certain areas that are deeper in and certain areas that are they're coming out so I'm going to go ahead and do a basic shading of um this face and just the mouth really um and that will hopefully just show you know what what I mean I I'll kind of deal with the mouth in a bunch of different ways uh so this is probably going to be longer tutorial um but you should learn more so that would be good uh so I'm going to just go ahead and take this down a a value and the reason I'm doing that is just because I want to be able to use highlights to show you stuff so got the mouth there okay so if the light's coming from above which usually in most cases it's coming from above or a little bit to the side but still from above um what's going to happen is you'll get a shadow from from the nose actually a cast Shadow here and that falls onto the face then what you'll get is the upper lip see how it's tilted here because of this tilt it's not getting hit by the Light so this is in shadow um so you get like Shadow from the nose going down and then you get this area the the filtrum area here that tends to have a bit of a shadow then you get a shadow from the upper lip because the light is not hitting it then you get light on the lower lip here then you get a shadow under here see how this is going in again so again light imagine the light is like going at this angleo boop boop boop boop boop boop where is it hitting like it hits there it hits here it hits here it hits here oop hits here hits here but it's not hitting these under planes because it would have to go like d to hit those areas right so the areas where the light doesn't hit is where the shadow is make sense all right so Shadow under this area here and then the chin itself kind of turns and so now there's a lower plane of the chin which you know it's often ignored but it's important I think to get that and so we get that gets darker again all right now also is uh something to consider is the entire mouth is on a rounded sort of like if you viewed it from the top down it's like that it's like a muzzle um or it is a muzzle so uh because of that and if if you're not sure about what I mean okay take bread bite it and you'll see what forms is something like this so what doesn't form is something like this you don't bite with your teeth and have like a straight line across so this is showing you just how much your teeth are curved and your lips and everything the curve flattens out a bit as you because you have muscle and um your lips uh are covering so you have skin you have fat and you have muscle um that kind of makes it that we don't see that extreme curve that we would see if you had no uh skin fat or muscle and you were just looking at a skull you'll definitely see this curve but even uh with the skin fat and muscle on top you still um get that shape curved it's not straight so because of that what that means is we're basically looking at a cylinder here like so this area if we're looking at a cylinder you know just with the light coming straight ahead you just got a cylinder what I'll tend to happen is kind of is dark and then it gets lighter towards where the lights hitting it so dark and it gets lighter so you get something like this so do you see what's happening it's kind of going darker and then lighter and then darker we can do that on the mouth as well kind of have that so now we've got that cylinder of the muzzle all right and then often you get a bit darker in the corners that depends on what type of mouth you're dealing with um and the upper upper lip I didn't shade that enough okay so now we have that so now for highlights um um where does light hit well often you get light hitting like right there at that Rim where it changes Direction uh you'll get light hitting like the nose if if the light's coming from above it'll hit like here here probably get some highlights here and then maybe here so if we put those areas in we kind of now have that shelf put in this Shelf has been put in here okay then you can get highlights on the lips themselves highlights on the nose and a highlight on the chin so that's kind of the distribution now the lip itself here kind of has a split so you often get um kind of separation between the highlights uh so there now we kind of have a mouth shown and we've got the shading done um but this is only you know front view mouth with shading and it's not necessarily what everyone's going to be doing some people just want to be drawing they don't want to necessarily go into the process of shading so so let's do some more uh mouth stuff but just dealing with um more of a drawing uh mouth and less of a painting mouth so uh I have made a tutorial a long time ago called how to paint lips I think or how to paint Mayo lips I'm not sure something it's a long time ago I'm sorry but uh in that I Do cover more of the painting side so I'm going to focus mostly on the drawing side so what are some things to keep in m in mind when you're drawing mouths well one of the things um I would say let's just call this like beginners tips beginners tips um one of the things beginners often do is they will have a mouth and they'll draw like a very definite line this makes the mouth look very flat and uninteresting so it also doesn't convey like the subtle curves and things but in the beginning let's say you're not working to make something very accurate you're not building ahead uh you just want to draw better Ms and you're starting like at zero let's say you just draw stick figures and these are like the extent of your mouth that's I him a person okay like that's the mouth you can do like well I can only draw stick figures okay let's help you get this better so one of the ways to get that better is instead of drawing this like that start with the corner get a bit dark and then ease off with your pencil or drawing instrument get a bit lighter with your your touch and then get a bit darker and what that does is now it feels a lot more three-dimensional so that's one of the things you can do so don't have just um a a straight line that's even because that's showing there's no definition if you if you kind of ease off and have more darkness in the corners of the the lips uh it'll look better so there's one thing you can do another thing I often see is the mouths um they're kind of like this they're too near the side of the face uh that looks bad uh make sure you have a degree of space between you know in this case a 3/4 view between the mouth and the cheek um so that's another thing you can do just get some space between there um also with the the like darkening and then easing off you might have seen in in some animes they they really just do this where you kind of have the corner described then you fade off into nothingness so it's kind of like this and it still reads as a mouth cuz it reads like the corners are dark the lips in the middle are touching so that kind of um well the lips are touching here but you don't get like uded as much here uh in the middle so you might get this and that's why so there you know just some tips make the corners darker ease off in the middle or if you're going to hit you get kind of like two more areas of Shadow here and because it's uh occlusion occlusion means light can't get in that uh spot so if light's not going to be able to get in that spot easily it's basically under almost any lighting situation light's not going to get in that spot so this is independent of whether the light is coming from like you know let's say it's you've got like coming like this where all this is dark the occlusion is going to stay the same um or if you have like light coming from below uh this area so that would get darker um that would get darker and then you get something like this but this occlusion is still going to stay the same so that's why this is pretty pretty effective to keep those parts dark because they'll pretty much always be dark okay so what else what else the beginners do that is not so good um the other thing they'll do is they'll outline the lips especially if they're drawing uh women but sometimes even when they're drawing men they outline that so that tends to look really bad it tends to look like you're giving the um your your character's like very very intense makeup so if you're going to darken like if you're going to make a line and you have to outline it leave it at least just on the top the upper lip and then let the lower lip just get the shadow underneath so you're actually skipping this area and then you can kind of to shade this in and it will look more natural more more more pleasant um so the only time I would be going you know like really doing this is if that's what the person like the person was wearing a lot of makeup and then sure I guess you can do this but in general you want to keep it not a hard line and if even if you do this one of the things with lips is they're very soft soft so when you draw something soft it helps to use soft edges so because of that because the lips are so soft even just making this upper line a bit softer here I'm just blending it a little bit it'll make it feel more natural so you don't have to go that crazy um so when it comes to drawing men usually there's not a um huge difference between the value of the lips and the value of the skin around that's a bit of a generalization and for some people there is a difference but in the most part there's less of a difference between the value of the skin and the value of the lips than for women uh with women the value of the lips is a bit darker than the value of the skin in general if you have dark skin of course it's going to be a bit different but even in that case often the value of the lips is like a bit darker than the value of the Skin So if you want someone to look more feminine uh give them darker lips if you want them to look more masculine uh you can you know kind of make it more of the same tone and if you are going to darken something darken the upper lip let the lower lip not be that dark and just focus on the shadow more okay so I think those are like the the three biggest beginner mistakes I see um unless we're talking about about Ms that are open so one of the things you get with Ms that are open is people do this type of thing where you draw a bunch of teeth and that's your open mouth okay so there's a few things wrong with this first of all too many teeth and that's usually a thing like that's that's a common mistake uh with comic artists it's it's it can get pretty funny uh I think there's some Rob leld stuff where he just has like just endless teeth it looks like on on some of his characters um so yeah that's that's not not good the other thing is remember the the bread piece of bread terrible bread sorry and that curve this is not curved so if this was curved you even if you saw this top uh teeth straight that means these are going to be kind of curved cuz we're now looking straight at these but down more down at those they're open so not getting the curve so uh not getting curved teeth not curved teeth but curved muzzle all right um and then another thing is like really outlining all the teeth that tends to not look good either so um black outlines I would say um because when you think about teeth they're pretty bright like even if they are uh not that clean I guess they're they they still are fairly bright unless they're really rotten um but what that means is you have these like enamel bright objects right beside each other I'm going to go ahead and and just kind of paint so thinking about painting if you have these bright objects right beside each other there's going to be a lot of reflected light so what's going to happen is and and especially they're they're really close so unless you have a gap in your teeth it's not going to be that dark light's bouncing around all over the place um and you don't want to go white like I don't go Pure White when I draw teeth uh usually what I tend to do is like I stay in like a yellow and sort of an off yellow uh the more realistic you go uh chances are the darker your value is going to be um but generally you know one of these is is fine for teeth it it's not going to look too yellow you don't want to you know do that that's a bit much um but just a bit of an off-white tends to be fine uh when When painting teeth and what that also does is because I haven't gone to Pure white I can add highlights if I need to if I want the teeth to look more shiny okay so the dark line is is something you you generally don't want to be doing unless you have a gap between the teeth um so that's another common mistake uh I see um not thinking about the gums so you have gums as well as teeth so that's important um in a lot of cases I ignore that especially if I'm doing like more of my comic where um things are simplified I don't really focus heavily on gums but if you're doing something more realistic it's important to remember that gums exist um and they go over the teeth and so what that means is you're going to get darker areas in between and then the gum is going to there it's going to look like there's light here and here uh towards the middle because that's like here you'll get like little highlights because that's that the gums are going over these teeth all right so um let's talk more about teeth then uh too many teeth that's a big problem right so it's something that I used to get really I used to be intim imated by teeth cuz it felt like there's so many teeth and like how do you know how many there are but actually it's not that hard so the way I would think about it is uh at the top you have the I don't know what they're called the buck teeth the front the two front teeth the big ones and then you have another so that's one then you have another then you have have the Fang so that's three okay so you have the big one the middle one and then the Fang now the the this big one is flat generally this one is kind of flat generally but this Fang it's kind of got a corner to it so it's kind of going like flat this way and then this is starting to turn back so the way I think about this the K9 tooth or the Fang however you want to think about it is uh it's a corner corner tooth okay so it's a corner because these three are kind of facing forward but then the Fang see how it's got that turn to it the other teeth that follow so here's a three front guys top front guys and then ones that follow go you get the rest and then they're pretty much hidden from the front so often you see like these three and then maybe a bit of these going back the the the premolar and the molers I think they're called um and then for the other side it's just this mirror so one two three thing Corner tooth and then we go back in space so these are hidden because on a diagram like that you'd have like uh actually it would be this way you get the front teeth so like the big teeth and the middle guy Fang Corner tooth and then you get like one two and then you get I think these two are called prear and then you get like ones that look like this one two and then you get your third one when you get old and wise um so you got if you if you break the mouth in half you got three that are mostly visible and then these ones aren't really that visible and then and also this angle can change you know you can get more you can get it like that that you can get it more like that it depends but um generally you have this so then two and then three uh two or three I should say so that's it you know it's 3 two two three whatever but you mostly only see these so if you only remember these three you'll be fine then on the bottom it's kind of mirrored it's just that they're they're a bit straighter and then and but it's still like one two three one two three and then we start going back and you get the molers and then yeah I mean unless the mouth is really open wide you're not going to see these back teeth but the way I draw them is kind of like this and then sometimes I show the the cavity in the middle and then like that kind of can makes it feel like there's a lot of teeth one two and then we get the Fang which is the [Music] cornero and then and obviously you know some people's fangs are are prominent some are much more you know not that sharp for me I've got more of the sharper longer fangs um and then uh some people really have like a lot of angles to their teeth they're not necessarily straight some people have gaps so there's a lot you can do but it's still generally you know unless you're missing a tooth uh you get the same amount of teeth and there's not that many so it's something that you can memorize you can uh understand this so when you do and you're doing a smiling mouth how do we do that well in general you know what it's not bad to just think of that like cartoony Mickey Mouse type mouth and that's actually not too bad cuz this is a symbol of a smiling mouth now why is it a symbol because um it's something we can easily recognize and also it's got to have some truth in it to be a symbol or it wouldn't make sense so what it means is generally we see these types of things we see a smiling mouth so we kind of need them so what's what's going on well here you see the skin is kind of like uh the the mouth is moving so wrinkles are forming as the muscles contract so we can get that like in a realistic face okay here's some muscle contraction now here it it doesn't really Touch This Way usually you get a bit of a gap but then you get that again muscle contraction here um all right and then we have like it's it's generally straight at the top and then it's more rounded at the bottom so we can do that you can see it's not that different from this one and then you get the upper upper teeth showing and I tend to make them curved CU they are some people have straighter teeth I think uh I watched something that said that in the past people had way straighter teeth um cuz they were eating different foods not important uh but anyway so you have these and then 1 2 3 and now we're going back and then uh so you see like the mouth actually goes wider than the teeth um or the lips and then in the bottom one two three one two three and then we go back so we can kind of indicate those a bit you have a tongue in the middle and there we go so we have like a a smiling mouth now um you don't actually have to draw the teeth you can do this and this happens a lot in anime where you kind of just group the teeth together because this is so subtle the shape between them that it's actually fine if you draw it like this it doesn't look unrealistic um and if you're really simplifying it like doing like a very anime style for instance um you may get something more like this where we've got these lower teeth going back in space this is what this is it's not the fangs it's these going back in space but you're just kind of getting rid of that then can just sort of fill that in and there you got a smiling mouth and you can you know add more wrinkles if you want so we got that all right all right uh what about screaming well what's going to happen is with screaming actually whenever I draw them I always draw the the head together with the mouth otherwise it doesn't work for me and then I think about all right so the upper lip the upper teeth are generally normal like they're even if I was smiling it would be the same but the the lips go down and they kind of get wider at the bottom and then the bottom teeth um they're at an angle cuz the whole jaw has moved down so we tend to see a shape kind of like this so even if you learn the shapes first and you don't necessarily learn what they mean it's actually easier to learn what they mean after if you have the shape down at least that's been my experience um I know some people really stress like you should learn all the fundamentals first and the anatomy first and then you can um stylize and do things but actually I found that's very ineffective in a lot of cases that the people I like the most tend to Intuit these things people I like the artwork of the most and often people who get very caught up on these fundamentals tend to not be able to draw from imagination very much so what I would do is I don't think it's actually bad at all to learn how to draw a generic Mouse like a even a symbol mouth you get this type of thing like okay I keep the teeth you know kind of like that get it dark here tongue gets a bit dark and then I can just copy this a bunch of times sure because what happens is eventually um I mean if you think about it you can kind of make sense of what these things are if this guy was a vampire well you know you get fangs where are the Fangs are the corners because they're the corner teeth cool um so screaming face mouth like that um all right and then something to keep in mind here is notice that I didn't draw the mouth like like I left this space here that's the skin of the lip so the lip is actually fairly thick and what happens is the upper lip uh okay I got to draw this more here so let's say this is the upper lip kind of goes around like that and then you get your lower lip kind of doing this and so this is going to be more of like a realistic mouth get this type of thing going on so like where the upper lip and the lower lip meet uh that the lower lip Li actually goes in front and then the upper lip kind of goes inside more but you get this region here that this part like if I was to draw the planes it would kind of go like this but then here it's starting to go back like that and then if we're looking kind of at the side we see less of this like this looks thinner than this because this part is actually that like this if you mirrored it would be that and then this part we get to see it going inside and then for the lower lip you get something like this and then something like that then your teeth so if this is the center of the lip and we're looking at it at more of a a 3/4 angle what's going to happen well the center of the teeth are not going to be here or here they're going to be you have to think the upper lip goes in and then it's most lik it's going to go in a bit right because you have to the form goes like this way if I'm drawing the center line goes this way goes down goes in then you have the middle of your tooth then you um would keep going inside go down the throat come up the tongue uh and then you'd have the center of the teeth again and then you've get the lower lip kind of coming out again and then it goes in so that's the center line kind of goes wo w w woo in the side view um so what else I mean generally those are the big things with Ms um I would think it's not a bad idea to just look up Ms that you like if you want to draw very stylized stuff um it's not bad to just learn the symbols as well as learn the anatomy but sometimes people just learn the symbols and that's perfectly fine I think gets the job done um but if you you know you want to draw something more realistically um then you know you probably have to learn the anatomy of the mouth a bit more um so generally when I'm drawing mouths uh I I do work uh CU I'm draw my comic Spaceway Tris k I do tend to um simplify the mouth so I'll go ahead and just draw some Ms that just draw K and then we can give her some different Ms so got the eyes roughly in place all right so basically have a a rudimentary character and you you might notice it's stylized so yeah it's stylized cuz I'm drawing stylized mouths yeah that's the that's the topic of this one right now is uh chapter three stylized mounts um so if here's a center line which kind of didn't wasn't that accurate so let me redraw that a bit more accurately because I drew it very sketchy um so forehead comes out and we go in for the nose we go down and then we have to remember the mouth is on a three-dimensional uh surface so it's not doing this that's that's not what it does it goes out comes down then it comes out again for the chin so that's what what the mouth is doing so the mouth in terms of placement is roughly around here and this would be the the corner of the um or where the the mouth is turning around in space this if we drew a skull let me draw a skull on top of this uh of this K all right you would have it I socket too big um I sockets here I socket get the nose here and then you'd have this coming around this coming around and this would be the the teeth now the teeth kind of go in like that and then this part comes out you get the the lower [Music] chin get a shape like this and the teeth are here so one two then K9 1 2 K9 here's where we're going back in space now premolar premolar and then Moler Moler and then here front tooth front tooth see how it's like the two front teeth are not in the middle if I just drew a line on this and I drew it straight like like drew a straight line like that we'd be missing all of this and that would mean the teeth are here and here the front teeth um instead they're here and here so it's it's important to know that this whole area is rounded so the mouth is going to be like in this area okay so now I'm just going to draw a bunch of mouths for you as examples so you can look at them and maybe I don't know learn or something uh let me just uh lighten the center line don't want it to be so visible all right simple mouth just neutral there you could uh like I I stressed these parts the corners again and then this is going around you'll see like compared to the nose if the nose is here this one looks a lot closer to the nose than that like I didn't draw it here for instance that see that's like a mistake it looks wrong it looks like she has like a fish or not a fish like a frog mouth or something so keep it inside so that's one all right let's draw like sad lower lip goes down this is the middle um like if I if I shaded this it would do that so you can just draw this maybe that and that's kind of like a pouty mouth um if we're drawn happy could do this if we're drawn like open mouth and happy we could do this see how this is rounded this kind of gets straightened because the lips are going around like this and that's where the lower Li would be so this is quite unrealistic but it follows the feeling so it'll look fine um like that and then the tongue all right let's do what else like an angry screaming mouth well it really depends you could do something like a I guess I guess we can do that for a start get the teeth in or we could do more of a like a clenched expression which you know got to get more activity there it's going to look weird so with clench teeth I tend to do this this where I I draw the canines at the corners and then I draw the shape of the teeth where they're meeting and then I kind of like don't draw the rest like I don't do the shape all indicated like that just get like a bit of the K9 and then kind of let that fade off and then maybe a bit here and that feels better maybe you want to get some more of the teeth going back but it doesn't have to be this extreme if you're doing a very simple style and then you can also kind of show the gums if you want this to look a bit more you know Intense or something gum showing gums tend to be a bit more let's just make the eyebrows go way lower because she looks pretty pissed off okay there's that let's do like an oo mouth ooh there so with this one I kind of went like this with the upper lip and then the opening of the mouth is much smaller and all of this with so if I was to draw the lips which I'm not drawing here but they would do this they' be doing this then the teeth would be here and this would be all um all the inside of the mouth um probably teeth would be a bit more out than that maybe there but it's not a huge deal but yeah so that simplified can I mean you can do it a bunch of ways but the way I like to do it is kind of a and then get like the lower lip um if we do it this way she can I'll be blowing something like her mouth is full maybe she's blowing some air uh I don't know um and then you know you can do weird ones like or or or do a little like could do like a DOT do like a very tight mouth could do like that where it's kind of pushed out and then this would be coming like that um so with these you know i' kind of recommend just looking at Ms that you like if you're doing very simplified uh faces but uh back to realism I think uh another thing I forgot to mention is kind of the tilt of the head if the head is tilted up like so here's the front plane here's the back here's the neck we're kind of looking up at this figure then so here's the nose ey socket here here so at in this case the mouth has to be curved this way kind of like a unhappy face but it's because uh we're looking up at the that curved cylinder um whereas if you're looking down then the mouth goes like more of a happy face type um angle didn't draw enough of the head so that's all messed up even this is all messed up let's do it again faces down draw the front plane of the head then it's going to look more like that even if you're not happy um cuz we're looking down at the mouth so it can be kind of tricky to get Expressions to look good um when you're you know looking down at a figure cuz you've got two things working you've got the mouth that naturally like the teeth that naturally have this curve but then you have the lips that are sitting on top of those those teeth and muscles that may be doing something opposing for instance uh yeah you have the curve going this way but if the person's frowning their lips are still going to go down so then you get kind of difficult poses where you've got to think of both things at the same time you've got to think of how yes the the the mouth is frowning um but you also have this curve so the mouth kind of ends here because that's where the uh things are curving around this so it it gets it gets complicated um Ms are not an easy thing so if you're struggling with them I wouldn't say you should feel bad about it it's pretty pretty common um I guess briefly I should just mention the tongue so with tongues something I try to keep in mind is they are not flat it's not just that they have a a structure to them and you know it's like pretty thick thick muscle so um also the if you think about a simplified tongue uh this line doesn't go like all the way it kind of stops like that so that'll feel better if you're doing like a very simple mouth um if you're doing a little a little more complex so something to remember is that uh the tongue is thick so if you have that corner part uh I mean that center divide sorry um it's if if I just kind of drew a line like this it feels a bit too harsh but if I kind of add these little fade off lines it feels more threedimensional so that's something to keep in mind um and then the other thing is that the tongue has and and also the tongue can get like flattered depending on how you use your muscle uh From Below you have like this uh I don't know this part that kind of connects the tongue to the the floor of the mouth um this like seam part I don't know how to call it but that's there so remember that and then in terms of tongues and shading uh usually the tongue is a bit dark but you want to remember that it's wet so you tend to get you know like highlights and stuff but it's also got a very like um bumpy surface so it's not like mirror smooth so when I do tongues I try to remember to put highlights but also kind of leave them a bit scattered if you if you want to get more you know fancy you can add a bunch of little highlights um not everywhere not evenly see like I didn't put them all here as well I just left them around where the actual highlight would be and that'll give you sort of that tongue texture feeling so uh mostly I think think that's about it in terms of Ms um at least all I can think of right now um they are tricky uh but I am personally not against symbol drawing so if you want to draw like oops simple Ms like this I think it's good uh a lot of people who watch my videos actually want to do more cartoony simplified stuff and I would say uh that's cool I mean that's what I'm doing I'm doing comics and uh things are simpler and it's not at all bad to just reference people who do mouths that you like like look up if there's like a certain artist maybe they're manga artist or something that does mouths you like just look them up um but if you're going for more realism uh you still can like Lumis Andrew lumus uh he draws mouths very well and kind of keeps um some of these things in mind where he doesn't outline every tooth and you do kind of group the teeth together um you know even if you think of teeth as one thing and not like separate teeth but just a a band that can that can help um because it doesn't look bad just looks clean like there's so much they're so clean and they're so neat and tidy that there's no um definition then if you want to put any definition sometimes just putting the the gums is actually more effective than drawing all the teeth so let's try and end this under an hour uh it is you know in depth but at the same time because Ms are complicated uh it's kind of hard to um not be that way uh but yeah uh I hope this helped and thanks for watching

Channel: Sycra

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Length: 58min 9sec (3489 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 03 2020