From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Breaks on curves

Breaks on curves

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Breaks on curves

- This technique is a really subtle one, very powerful, especially if you're character is one of those very roundy, curvy ones. And then you have the problem of how do I make this thing look interesting? So what I've done is I've made two pretty crude, nothing fancy here, but two very simple rough pencil strokes. And what we want to do now is take a look at how we might make these strokes a little more interesting. So the main technique that we use to do this is called putting a break on that curve. And let me show you before, after. Before, after. And what I've done is right here at this point and this point, very subtly made a slight break, just an alteration on that trajectory of the arc so that it slightly changes. And here's the difference. You can see the original on the right side in red and then where I've inserted the break. That's it, that's a break on the curve. And now let's go on to see some practical applications of this technique. So here we have a classic round face…

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