How to Draw Ratatouille
This movie’s characters all have great personalities. You can see the
emotion in each character before you even hear them speak. This is the
power of excellent artwork. You can recreate these wonderful characters
with a little work. You will have to use different techniques depending
on which character you want to draw.
Lets that a look at how to draw Ratatouille. He has many facial
expressions and a lot of body language that you have to chose from and
play with. You can come up with so many setting variations for your
drawings along with the many that where in the movie. So as you can see
you will have many options when you go to start your drawing. You can
have a picture to reference as you draw Ratatouille. If you are a
beginner you may want to try starting with at grid drawing. To do this
you will need to draw a grid over the picture and then draw the same
formatted grid over your drawing page only larger, or the size you would
like it to be. This will ensure that you get all the character’s
features correct and proportionate.
If you would rather freehand draw you should start with a very light
outline of the character. This will give you some guidelines to go by.
Then add in the main features of Ratatouille, eyes, nose, mouth, the
distinction between the fur and the ears, hands, feet and tail. This
will further define him. Take an overview of him and see if you need to
make any adjustments before moving on. If you do need to make some
corrections gently erase the area making sure not to be too harsh on the
paper. Now you can go into the detail, this stage will be the most time
consuming. You want to be sure that you take your time so that you get
the full affect for the fur. When you are doing this step you want to be
sure to pay close attention to a few things. You want to be sure that
you get all the highlights and shadows around the face. This will give
the face the perfect emotion. You also want to be sure that you pay
attention to the body position and how that affects the way the fur will
lay.
Enjoy drawing Ratatouille, you will have fun do it and love the results.
This is even a fun character for your kids to draw. You could make it a
family project. |
