How to draw Star Wars characters: C-3PO (part 1)

 

How to draw Star Wars characters: C3-PO - Always wanted to draw C-3PO from the Star Wars movies? This is your occasion to learn how.

 

 

C-3PO is a protocol droid designed to serve humans, and boasts that he is fluent "in over six million forms of communication." C-3PO is generally seen with his long-time counterpart, R2-D2, a small, quirky droid.

 

Threepio's main function as a protocol droid is to assist with etiquette, customs, and translation so that meetings of different cultures run smoothly. Along side of the astromech droid R2-D2, Threepio played a vital and pivotal role in the Galaxy's history.

 

How to draw Star Wars characters - C-3PO

 

C-3PO is a humanoids robot and as such it presents the obvious difficulty of drawing convincingly a humanoid figure. That is the main obstacle. Once the figure is set and the proportions are right it's just a game of adding the details of its chassis.

 

With a bit of patience you should be able to get to a result like this one.

 

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Let's start with the core of the body so torso and hips. It's never a mistake to start with these big masses as they will automatically guide the orientation and position of the limbs and head.

 

Trace a red line to individuate the midline of the body.

 

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How to draw Star Wars characters - C-3PO

 

Now add all of the body elements using simple shapes such as circles and rectangles. See how the shoulders are represented by big circles and also the joints are represented by circles?

 

Also draw the red midline on the head too as to define the orientation of the head and the direction of the gaze of the android.

 

Finally use squares and rectangles to position approximately the hands and feet.

 

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