Monday 18 November 2013

How To Draw Cartoon Characters

By Katy Kline


A lot of individuals would want to draw cartoon characters but they see this as a difficult task. However, this task is not that difficult if such people learn how to draw cartoon characters. What one needs is determination to learn and practice. Below are some tips to help people draw cartoon characters successfully.

One should first have in mind the cartoon character he wants to draw. A person should use basic shapes such as circles, ovals, squares, rectangles or triangles to create the face. A teardrop can be used as the eyes. The features in the cartoon that ought to stand out are the eyes, ears, nose, hair and mouth. An individual should then pick the shape that will fit the face for his character.

After which the individual will get a blank paper and a good pencil and then sketch the face. This should be done faintly as one may rub some parts for one reason or another. Being able to put the sketch on paper is the beginning of visualizing the imagination in the head. One does not have to worry about drawing perfect shape as distortions or exaggerations are what make a face stand out.

Once one has finalized the face, he should then proceed to the body. The simple shapes can be used as a body and one should pick the appropriate one for his caricature. For persons who want something else for the body rather than the simple shapes, they should try to get inspiration from their favorite cartoon characters.

When it comes to the legs also, a person should have in mind ideas of long or short lines which should be exaggerated. The head or body can also be exaggerated as this creates humor and this is what animation characters are intended to give us. Once the sketch is complete, an individual then outlines the character. This is to make the caricature clear bearing in mind that when sketching, one was using the pencil faintly.

One can decide to make certain features of the character to be bolder than the others. Persons can also put shadings on various sides of the drawing to show some depth. Other than shadings, the image can also be colored depending on the additions one wants for his character or left the way it is.

As mentioned earlier, persons ought to practice this kind of drawing in order to depict perfect characters in the end. Therefore one should repeat the image and even draw other characters repeatedly. All the figures should be drawn as simple as possible. The figures can be modified more and more with each time one is drawing a new one. However one can start to draw complex animations by getting advanced tutorials on such online.

With this information on how to draw cartoon characters, individuals can begin the process of drawing their own creations. This is usually a fun process and one must always take pleasure in them. This is because working without pleasure or fun will be seen on the caricatures since the individual will not be having creativity.




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