What cartooning basics do Tweety Bird and Pink Panther — along with numerous classic cartoon characters — have in common? Once you figure it out you've distilled at least two things that you can use over and over to create a sense of cartooniness in anything you draw....
Simple One Point Perspective Drawings & Adjustments One point perspective drawings are the simplest type to do, but most resources don't venture beyond the classic "straight road + telegraph poles disappearing into the distance" diagrams that are so often used to...
'Fast and furious' hand-drawn cartooning process! I am a staunch believer that you can still get into the cartooning process the old-fashioned way — fast and furious pencil sketches followed by a nib and Indian ink and finally adding colour with watercolour paint or...
Draw Cartoon Characters? Draw Sketch Journals? I love dabbling in the growing sketchbook journal movement, even though I tend to draw cartoon characters more than real ones. I am entranced by the sketchbook journals I see on the internet — people documenting their...
Judith was gritting her teeth. She could feel her jaw clenching and her shoulders knotting up. Drawing ideas and starting to illustrate her own blog posts sounded quite do-able but after several attempts and much erasing, her picture still doesn’t look good enough....
How to Draw Boots {For Cartooning} Yvonne sat with her pencil in hand frowning at the page. “Winter again,” she thought. “That means my cartoon character needs to wear boots. Ugh!” If, like Yvonne, the thought of drawing footwear makes your heart sink into your boots,...
Specifically, here are two drawing cartoon hands tips in the form of questions to help you troubleshoot your work and can get better, faster. The two questions to ask yourself when drawing cartoon hands are: what is in front? and/or what is the outline? Of course it...
Stick figure cartoon Vicky’s head was feeling tight with frustration. Her jaw was set and her teeth clamped tightly together as she erased her character’s arms and re-drew them …for the fourth time! “Grrr!” she thought. “Redrawing the whole arm over and over...
Deep practice examples 'live' from Da Vinci What is deep practice? Deep practice is slowing yourself down and working on just one small element of something at a time. It’s an idea that I first read about in Daniel Coyle’s book The Talent Code, and have adapted to...
Perspective in storytelling: using it powerfully can set your cartooning apart. After all, where do you want your viewer — immersed in the action or watching from the sidelines? Ultimately it depends on the story you are telling, and you have to choose the appropriate...