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Thứ Ba, 12 tháng 11, 2013

Guidelines On How To Draw Cartoon Characters

By Katy Kline


Many people have always wanted to sketch their own cartoon characters but they do not know how to start this. For such persons, they need to search for tips on how to draw cartoon characters in order to start their own sketches. They should however be committed to learn this process and practice a lot to understand the concept behind drawing these figures.

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.

The face should be sketched on a blank paper using a faintly. The individual should not worry about the sketch being a perfect shape as imperfection is perfection in art. All the features on the face should be drawn in various shapes just as the way one had imagined it to be. One can draw hair for the character or decide to put a cap among other things.

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.

The legs can be a bit of a challenge but one should think of them as elongated sticks and draw them in various lengths and width depending on how wants his animation to be. It is advisable that the head, body or leg of animations be exaggerated. This brings out the funniness of the character that many people want to see. Once all this is done, the pencil drawing should be outlined to make it bolder.

As one is outlining, some features can be made bolder than others to make them standout. Shading can also be done on the drawing to bring out depth of the drawing. It can be a black and white drawing or a person can decide to use color pencil to put some color on the character.

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.

Following these tips on how to draw cartoon characters will eventually see one draw perfect caricatures. However, on top of everything else, an individual should ensure to enjoy all his developments no matter how they look. This is because creativity will only improve when one is enjoying what he or she is doing.




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