SLUMBER PARTY
they are watching Pacific Rim (I keep mentioning it to people lately and I need to rewatch it, it certainly is one of my favorites)
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This is super random, but do you have any advice on how to draw children? I can never get it to look quite right when I try and I don't know why (I've got the idea down that they should be rounder but even that doesn't seem to be enough to make it look right)
So hilariously I’ve historically had the opposite problem where for a good while the only thing I could draw was children and I had no idea how to draw adults, because shonen anime with young protagonists were most of what I watched and interacted with when I was learning how to draw.
This is a very casual haphazard little thing so don’t put too much stock into it, but my experience at least has been the following:
Generally, on adults, the midline being where the eyes fall is pretty accurate. However, for children, especially babies, the eye line will fall a bit lower than the mid line.
On babies, generally the nostrils or the bottom of the nose will fall close to the midline between the eyes and the mouth at resting position. As they grow, the distance between the eyes and the bottom of the nose will get proportionally longer, so that the bottom of the nose will be closer to the mouth than to the eyes.
If starting with the circle as a base for the top curvature of the head, the chin will be further from the circle on an adult, making the head more elongated. On children, the chin will be shorter and rounder.
The head is also proportionally larger on children than on adults. For full body pieces, you can measure this by the shoulders.
I hope this helps some? As always, I do recommend using references and doing some studies of photos or other artwork if you find yourself stuck.
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