Drawing A Cartoon Face – part 3 -women

In Principle, if you add a woman’s hair, body and clothes to the cartoon face-shapes we drew in part 1, then you’ve got yourself a cartoon drawing of a woman (though usually without the facial hair).

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Drawing A Cartoon Face – part 2 – Features

In my last “practical post” I showed you how to draw a few variations of a cartoon face of men quickly and easily – it was just as easy as putting Mr. Potato-head together, right? And I promised you a selection of features that you can use to stick onto your “potato-head” forms. Well here they are.

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Being A Cartoonist – Is It Just About Making People Laugh?

As a cartoonist, you are in the business of entertaining people, on a comedy level, and primarily you’re interested in making them laugh, But a cartoon, whether a single-panel gag or a full-length animated feature, can also serve as a platform for deeper insights and points of view, highlighted through the element of humor.

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No1 Cartooning Exercise Ever.

The best advice I would give to anyone wanting to learn to draw cartoons is this:  Stop-Trying-To-Learn!

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Drawing A Cartoon Face – part 1 – men

In my last post I showed you how to draw cartoons by filling in some simple, quickly drawn shapes. Today I want to show you how to draw a more characterized cartoon face using the same method. And we’ll start with men.

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No talent for drawing? Cartoon top tip to get you started.

If you think you can’t draw, you probably put it down to having no talent, and you won’t be the only one who thinks like this. But you do have talent -  it just needs to be exercised and nurtured. Drawing cartoon characters will help you to do this.

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Drawing Cartoon – A Welcome Introduction

Hi there – my name is Mike Monaghan and, among other things, I’m a cartoonist.

I set up this blog to share my passion for drawing cartoons. But more than that, I want everyone to discover their own talent for drawing and be able to experience the joy of seeing the funny side of life and preserving it forever in their own cartoon creations.

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Drawing Cartoons Is Easy

Drawing cartoons is easy! This is something I’ll be repeating often in this blog, because I want you to really believe it. If you think it’s hard to draw cartoons, you’ll find it hard, and you won’t draw often enough to discover just how easy it is or, more importantly, just how much creative talent you have.

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How To Draw Cartoons And Influence People

Can you really influence people by drawing cartoons? Well, that’s debatable, but you can impress them and that’s a start.

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How Not To Draw Cartoons – The Trouble With All Those How-To Tips

I’ve done a lot of browsing on the internet to see what’s on offer in the field of cartoon drawing. There are lots of great cartoon sites and cartoonist’s sites, but as far as inspiring “cartooning” sites go – where you can actually learn the craft – well there’s not much that I could recommend.

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