a pal asked me how i drew teeth so i made this quick lil mini tutorial on how i do it!! this is by no means a professional tutorial and im still learning but i hope this might b helpful to some!
Using references is the most important step. After you get the hang out of shapes, you can start and experiment with different angles and make it more cartoonish, depending on what you want.
i think a good tip is to learn the different kinds of teeth our mouths hold and then build off of that formula for squish n stretch for cartooning.
if you wanna draw good monster mouths (or just.. people mouths too), look at actual animal mouths (or people mouths) and what sorta teeth they have and also for what purposes and why specific teeth are designed the way they are in nature. cause i mean… you could always just draw a jagged line for teeth (ie ‘’shark teeth’’) but imo it’s always just… extra nice looking and cool if you actually draw stuff so it makes sense! it shows!
this is a rly good post imo! covers the basics and has nice examples.
another tip is that sometimes simple stuff works best. that’s why i draw just a ‘’slab’’ of white for teeth most of the time, cause especially for people, if you draw every single tooth really detailed, it most often just turns out looking sorta creepy! unless im going for the creepy, i usually leave the teeth in pretty simple, big shapes.
imperfections are interesting! draw that crooked or gapped teeth mouth. missing teeth also add character. there’s… a lot of fun you can have w teeth design alone lol.
tips for drawing mouths tho…. hmmmm… well. i guess it’s more of a style quirk more than anything but i like to draw mouths that are… more like a hole in the face or something that breaks the face shape rather than just a projection on the surface of the face? if that makes sense lol. i like to draw mouths that the face has to adjust to rather than drawing all sorts of expressions on top of a never changing face shape.
my point being something like this. i feel like this is a ‘’it’s my style’’ kind of a situation so, whatever i guess. it’s not like i choose to use ‘’correct’’ perspective myself most of the time lol. also…. i like to push stuff.. pushing expressions to the extremes doesn’t Always work but boy howdy are they fun to draw lmao..
as to why i draw mouths like i do, my absolute favorite part abt them is that lil shape that they do and i exaggerate it lmao… so i guess my tip here is……… u guessed it………. look at a bunch of photos of people.
iiiii hope any of this is helpful, i feel like i could ramble and preach abt how much teeth give to a character and how fun and important is like… mouth acting or whatever lmao so i will just stop for now. writing down tips is always kinda… very tricky. also art is kinda? subjective? so. take whatever advice you will from this.
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