How Do Open Snoot??? I Have So Many Problems When It Comes To Drawing Open Mouthed Critters/expressions!!

How do open snoot??? I have so many problems when it comes to drawing open mouthed critters/expressions!! I just can't wrap my mind around how open snouts work with the skull or the circles I use for the skull anyhow.. Do you have any advice on this??

 I’M GONNA TRY MY BEST TO EXPLAIN THIS because, man i feel u but at the same time I know very little about the technical anatomy when it comes to skulls ;;

Let’s do a sorta above ¾ view for this rlly quick, when I start out, I always like to establish one part of the snout at a time, instead of trying to just DIVE RIGHT IN. So I start by putting vague upper muzzle shapes here, just to get the direction goin’

NOW WE GOTTA GIVE THIS THING A LOWER JAW to help keep it symmetrical, I like to pull the lines from the corners of the upper lips. DON’T BE AFRAID TO OVERLAP, OVERLAPPING IS IMPORTANT IN GENERAL BUT ESPECIALLY WHEN DRAWING OPEN MUZZLES LIKE THIS!! See that line that goes from the upper right corner of the lip and through the top half of the muzzle? I basically use that as my guide to keep from pulling the jaw too far out, or too far in. Don’t worry if it looks a bit like they have an underbite either, depending on the angle, perspective will do that..it likes to fuk with ur brain a bit

OKAY NOW we’re bringing back the overlapping line because chins are still hard for me to draw and I change how i do it constantly but this is a good method to get a chin that doesn’t thrust too much outwards or inwards (unless that’s the specific jaw shape you were going for with ur character, then by all means do so!!! ) bring the line from the further corner of the eye, form the cheek, and bring it down (overlapping over the top jaw as we are wont to do) and bring it AROUND TOWN. You see here that it’s kinda boxy and I could probably curve that line some more to give a more slender look but w/e IT WORKS WITH MOST SHAPES

if you’re referring to something like the BND draw I posted recently, it’s pretty much a similar course of action, so let’s use this  asshole as an example because his mouth is obnoxiously wide when it’s open 

Start off with the upper jaw, again, it’s easier to piece these things together vs trying to shove all the shapes together at once (for me it is anyways) 

i’m doing this from profile view this time but you can see the overlapping lines still work!! I roughly places where the otherside of the upper corner of the lip would be on the side we don’t see and used that to help me get an idea of how far down the lower jaw is gonna go~! Don’t worry, it’s gonna look awkward most of the time  and it’s a perfect chance to go in and fix the length of the upper/lower jaw before you start adding in deets like the tongue and teeth!

there we go!!!! looks a lot less awkward LOL

you can also do something like this if ur feeling kinda toony (it’s really fun, simple yet effective!)

It can work for a lot of different styles, from realism to toony to my stupid doodles i do a lot when being a Serious Artist ™ is just 2 much for me :^)

BUT YEAH HERE U GO I HOPE THIS HELPS

More cartooning tips by Mitch Leeuwe.

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process breakdown for my last piece~

1.) Thumbnail stage. Figuring out where characters are gonna be placed/ interact with their environment. I’d never really drawn a shoreline before, but I knew I wanted Coral to be further into the water, while little Ishmael was hanging back in the shallows.

2.) Sketch time! It was really important to get the proportions right and try to grasp the weight and dimensionality of each animal. That means using lots of references and drawing and redrawing til it looks right

3.) Lineart and base colors. This is the time for last minute corrections to the sketch (such as fixing Coral’s eye, which was too low on her face…and realizing oh shit, I forgot to add in her hair flowers)

4.) Adding in details to the horses’ coats, and finally starting to define the water and waves. The ocean looked way too much like jello here for my liking

5.) Jazzed up the colors in the ocean, added foam to the wave crests. Added the first layer of shading, the shadows are cool and dark in opposition to the strong yellow sunshine beaming down from above.

6.) More lighting and shadow work. Adding in cast shadows, strong sunlight, and reflected light where light is bouncing off the water and onto their bodies

7.) Trying to figure out how the waves are affected as they break against the horses’ legs. There’s a shitload of foam everywhere. This part was challenging and I needed to do a few studies cuz I didn’t know dick about painting water, but my new year’s resolution was to challenge myself more with my work and break out of my comfort zone, oy

8.) Final touches. Not a perfect piece, but I really feel like I learned a lot~

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Draw a favorite villain as if they were a good guy.

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.