Cartoon Office Scenarios – How To Brighten Your Workday
Do you sit behind a desk the whole day? – nine-to-five drudge, boss on your back, workload piling up, so many things to get done, and the clock’s ticking by ever-so-slowly…
How To Draw Cartoon Feet
In the last post we looked at drawing cartoon hands – in this post we’re looking at cartoon feet. And the same advice applies here…”Don’t make it difficult”!
How To Draw Cartoon Hands
Drawing cartoon hands doesn’t have to be as hard as it’s made out to be. Like everything, you can can make a whole study of it and go for perfection. If you’re aiming for working as an animator for Disney, then at some point you’re going to have to master drawing cartoon hands – and feet, and noses, and ears, and hair, and so on….
Drawing The Cartoon Figure part 5 – Movement and Action
One of the most important aspects to remember in drawing cartoons is that they’re rarely portraits. Our cartoon characters aren’t just sitting still, smiling into the camera – usually they’re on the go, involved in some action or other.
Drawing The Cartoon Figure part4 – Cartoon Kids
Kids come in all shapes and sizes, and when drawing them as a cartoon figure we are faced with a specific challenge – that of age.
Drawing The Cartoon Figure part 3 – Drawing Posture
We want our cartoon characters to have a personality… we want them to “come alive”! We can do this for a part through expressionable facial features – but a personality can also be captured in the posture of our cartoon figure.
In drawing posture, we are focussing on aspects of weight, balance, suppleness or stiffness, and our character’s manner of standing, sitting and moving.
Unless you’re drawing “super-heroes”, your cartoon figure still has to obey the laws of gravity if he is to be believable – and even if your drawing style is extremely simplified, you still don’t want your characters to look like they’ve been drawn by a 2year-old.
Understanding posture and transferring it to your drawing is, again, first a matter of observation – and it’s always fun, entertaining and educative to observe people in whatever they’re doing.
But after observing, it’s time to pick up your pencil and paper and start sketching, as I’ve done below. Keep your cartoon figure simple and basic – stick-men with a head, upper torso and hips – and then draw away!
A tip here is to look at yourself in a (full-length) mirror.. think of a posture and acquire it – then observe it and draw it.
So lets look at some examples:
Drawing The Cartoon Figure part2 – All Shapes and Sizes
That quick-sketching technique we covered in the last post is going to be put into action further as we focus on the variety of shapes and sizes of the human figure.
Drawing The Cartoon Figure part 1 – Quick-sketching and Finding the Form
This is the first post in a 5-part series on drawing the cartoon figure, and to start you off I want to illustrate how you can develop your quick-sketching abilities.
Make Your Own Cartoon Books – and practise being a professional
Making cartoon books for yourself isn’t difficult, but it can give a huge boost to your development and confidence as a cartoonist.
Spontaneous Cartooning
Probably the best way to learn how to draw, is to watch other people doing it – and this is what I want to be able to do for you. So this blog has to include cartoon videos.
