Drawing cartoons looks really easy, but often you will find that you just can’t get that expression right. This is because cartoons are not easy at all! You need to learn the language of movement and expression that lets you make a cartoon drawing come alive.
In this video I will show you how, with just a few simple marks, you can create a wealth of expression and emotion in your drawings.
Oh yes, and you can see me pulling funny faces at the end!
Jessica Innes hill won Gold in the Beijing World Championships Heptathlon today
Drawing Cartoons looks like it should be easy, but it is not. Like anything else, it requires practice and a bit of knowledge. That’s not a problem, I’m here to help. In fact I’m making a pretty extensive course on my Patreon Page at the moment – more info here.
In the previous videos, I started out with stick man drawings to create the pose and the proportions of the character I wanted to draw.
The previous videos were: How to draw cartoon style people:
How to draw cartoon people part 2
Generally, ladies are a bit more curvy than men! So, when we sketch in the body, we need to add more to the chest and the hips.
Women are much more fun to draw than men, who wear pretty much the same outfit all the time.
Women’s clothes are so much more interesting. I like to keep Mrs Rayner’s shopping catalogues when she’s finished with them and use them as reference material for poses and clothes styles.
Drawing cartoon children is just the same, but they are smaller. Actually, you can draw their heads pretty much the same size as the adults -it’s the body that changes in proportion – shorter and narrower
Babies have huge heads and little scrunched up bodies, but the underlying stick baby frame is the same idea again, only the proportions are different.
If you want your characters to be a fuller size, as the catalogues like to call it, then the frame is exactly the same. You just have to add on a lot more body and larger size clothes.