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Got any tips for drawing/sketching Caines head?

When I approach Caine’s head I go in with expression as a top priority. I see his jaws as eyebrows/eyelids even if I end up giving him either anyways.

The middle row is a good example: the shape of his top jaw reflects his eyebrow shape, and the lower jaw reflects the way his eye is shaped at the bottom. He lacks a face that would show many tells of a smile, so I exaggerate with what he does have. And you can do just about anything with the eyes, really! If you look at the way Gangle emotes with her eyes, those are great shapes to keep in mind as well! Any way you can imply eyebrows or lids will work well here. The show does this a lot!

On the left you get a great eyebrow raise with a shrunken iris on one side to make it more intense as he scolds against swearing. He’s stern about it! Whereas on the right, we’ve got two small irises and his upper jaw hiked up in the middle in a way that mimics a concerned upturned brow after trailing off about the idea of mixing up npcs and humans. Very much an “uh oh” face.

For the 3D factor of his jaw, I don’t worry a lot with keeping a consistent number of teeth or consistent dimensions. I use lots of curved lines so I can be dynamic. And keeping the top and bottom lines of either jaw parallel helps it to still feel solid imo.

You can honestly get pretty far by drawing his eyes, and framing them how you want with brows and/or lower lids, and constructing the jaws around those! The size and shape of the eyes, irises, and pupils will go a long way too!

Overall I’d say don’t be afraid to get loose with it! Get funky and wacky like he is! Also I recommend looking at sm-baby’s expression tests with Caine, they’re super helpful to study for readable expressions using just his jaws!