and for this Halloween episode I decided to draw Jack Skellington. He’s very easy yet

very fun to draw. So, let’s have some fun.

I’ll start by warming up with some sketches of various expressions. We can do a worried

Jack Skellington.

Or an angry Jack Skellington. The muscles around the brow ridge will pinch inward and

down. And I’ll give him a bit of a snarl.

Let’s try one more.

I’ll make him happy this time.

and I’ll open the mouth a little to show some excitement.

add the teeth

Jacks got a really fancy bow tie, shaped like a bat with it’s wings out.

At first I thought the lines along his lips was stitching, but after looking at some closeups

form the movie, I think it’s actually cracking, not stitching.

The cracking on the lips is important to get his likeness. Without it he kinda looks like

a simple smiley face.

Ok, so this one looks good.

His basic shape is a sphere, so he will be shaded like one. The core shadow will wrap

around the sphere at the planes that are perpendicular to the light source. The eye socket pushes

this core shadow out slightly, so I’ll make that adjustment.

I’ll shade in the shadows, starting with the eye sockets. And then the shadow on the

side of the head, neck, and inside the mouth.

I think it’d be better to add some light on the top of his bottom lips to make it more

clear that his mouth is open.

He’s facing slightly to the left. So in order to add some thickness to the bone between

the eye sockets, I need to show a side plane on the left side. So, I’ll outline the actual

holes, and fill them in black.

Clean up the nose.

And darken the mouth.

I still need to add some value to the bow tie, which is stripped.

Clean up the core shadow.

And just for fun lets add some rim light from the right side

Add some more details with halftone values. I think about the planes which face directly

at the light, and as they turn away, I’ll gradate towards a halftone.

Add some light planes on the indentations of the cracking.

Finally I’ll clean up some edges

and add details.