Knowing how to draw expressions is a HUGE part of creating lively, interesting cartoon faces. Without expressions, how can you show the emotion that your characters are feeling? Body language may be important, but the face is essential. It may feel daunting, but it...
Drawing cartoon strips can certainly feel daunting as a beginner. Fitting a lot into tiny spaces, getting the characters and scene right... yikes! On the other hand, cartoon strips and comic books are just stories in visual form and the story you are telling doesn't...
Want to draw cartoons and create your own cartoon characters? Getting started is a matter of playing with shapes, fiddling around and fitting them together until you find something that makes your smile, even just a tiny bit. When you start to draw cartoons,...
Take out your pencil and draw a stick figure. Any old stickman will do, however you instinctively draw one. I’ll wait here while you do it… All done? Great! Now, how does he look? Something like this guy down below, perhaps? Yep. most of us draw a stick man like a...
How to Draw a Cartoon Monkey Step by Step – for Beginners
I grew up in a sub-tropical climate in a little, teapot-shaped country called Zimbabwe. It was my idea of paradise – wide open spaces, warm sunshine, bare feet.
Are you learning to draw cartoons? Get this: my kids LOVE going through my old photo collections. They pore over over our wedding album, and page back and forth through the early years of their lives looking at themselves as toddlers with Marmite* moustaches.
If you’ve ever wondered how to start cartooning, this post is for you, because it always helps to have a process or a framework when you try something new