So. I want to learn how to draw in a Disneyesque style. Any tips?

[abigaillmartin]

Okay here is one where I fully went off the poster on my wall. I will color this tomorrow maybe.

Thanks for all the tips though guys.

[abigaillmartin]

Hm. Better than the last one I did.
I just have trouble with eyes

[Lensing]

First I have to say that I like your drawing!

The hard part is the switch to 3d looking drawings.
That was very hard for me too.

Here is how I handle eyes. I kind of put those weird looking
glasses on the faces, that´s the one on the left. Then I also
can judge the nose, eyes, ear position better.

The eyes get easier when you always draw 3 lines on top and
2 at the bottom.

This is the simplified and quick version of how I do it.

[KennethLopezJr921]

You shoulda tagged me for this because Im something of a Disney inspired artist myself rubs hands together and does a sigma face

Ive been learning this style since I was 15 years old and it is a very difficult style to get right. In fact, Id say learning the style is harder than drawing in the styles of most anime, mostly because I feel like the classic disney style has gone out of fashion in the past 20 something years outside of the studio, meanwhile for anime you have a shit tone of shows to pull from. Thats not to say it cant be done.

The best advice I can give is draw of stills of disney films and character sheets and animation genga (I dont know if there is an english term for it. Im a sakuga nut), more so those last two since you can get a better understanding at how its constructed over cleaner finished stuff. And while I dont 100% recomend this due to how questionable the site is, looking up disney inspired artists on DeviantArt and studying how they interpret the style can help. So that you can apply it to your own styles and make it work for you. Just because trying to go one for one is impossible and you may wanna take some creative liberties for certian aspects. Like in my case, I liked how Disney did animals, humans not as much. So I picked and chose elements with how disney drew humans that I liked, while also taking elements from other styles I liked more.

I know this might not seem like a lot but Im just detailing what I did and, who knows, maybe what worked for me could work for you too! ^^

[abigaillmartin]

Thank you guys!

And thank @Lensing

This is a lot more expressive. I also tried giving him full lips

Me when drawing his lips:

Literally though

[abigaillmartin]

Yeah. That makes sense. I can put my own spin on it of course.

[vapidink]

You already got some great tips and made really good progress, just wanted to add the things that stick out for me with this style are shape and flow. These two things are important because this style is meant to be animated, so Disney art has this soft flow to make motion easier to animate. It also breaks features down into the basic shapes that make the little details you add make a big difference and it also makes characters more expressive. Gesture drawing might be something you want to take a look at to get that sort of flowy feel a lot of old Disney movies have.

This is actually a really fun type of study to do with our characters, tbh.

[abigaillmartin]

I may do the Elsie gang now that you mention it
Heheh

[vapidink]

Give the people what they want; Disney Princess Ernest

[abigaillmartin]

He can sing with the fish he lives with under the sea! 🤣

Ernest: I will be eating yeh for dinner yah little scuts!

[abigaillmartin]

Right. Here is a great start

I really like the one I did of Roy. He’s goofy

[BoomerZ]

I like the 90s disney animation so my characters follow that look.

[Lensing]

For the Disney style interested people: check out Heinrich Kley, a german artist
who died 1945.

This doesn´t have so much to do with how to draw in a disneyesque style,
but I always find it interesting and good to know where style orignally came from.

[abigaillmartin]

Oops. My hand slipped!

Eyes are weird.

[abigaillmartin]

Just gonna bump up this thread real quick.

Boop!

[skullforceagents]

Hi Abigail

What I would suggest first before trying to tackle Disney style is to learn how to think about what you’re drawing as a 3D shape. I noticed that your drawing tend to be based off of flat shapes.

For example, your heads tend to be circles with the facial features “placed on them” depending on how you want the characters to look. This is fine if you’re going for a flat style, but when you’re trying to draw a style like Disney, you want to think about what you’re drawing as shapes like spheres and cubes instead of circles and squares. This will allow you to notice the different planes which make up the shape of your characters.

Does this make sense? Hope this helps.

[skullforceagents]

One thing that might help you think about drawing in 3D would be to pick up a subscription to Magic Poser. It helps me plan out my drawings in 3D space very well.