How to Learn to Draw Cartoons
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How to Learn to Draw Cartoons
Introduction
Draw people, animals or objects and add personality and a story to create a cartoon. Animation is bringing those characters to life by making them appear to move. There are different ways of creating a cartoon. Follow the tips below.
Instructions
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You'll Need
- Paper
- Cardboard
- Pencil
- Pen
- Markers, paints or colored pencils
- Scissors
- Glue
Steps
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Step One
Create a complex cartoon character. The character must have personality, and details such as facial expression, clothing, posture and body shape are really important to bringing life to a character.
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Step Two
Draw the character. First use pencil until a good character is drawn, and then blacken the outlines and color. Remember, main features of cartoon characters are often exaggerated, and small details are left out.
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Step Three
Place the character in interesting settings. This is done by placing the character against backgrounds. The background must be fitting to the story. Place animal characters in a jungle, superheroes in big cities or a mad scientist in a lab. Consider the qualities of the background, such as round curves for a peaceful setting, or sharp and jagged curves for a frightening setting.
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Step Four
Put the characters into a cartoon strip. A strip is a series of frames or pictures put into a certain order to tell a story. The story is told by captions beneath the frames, and dialog spoken by the characters in dialog bubbles in the pictures.
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Step Five
Create a zoetrope. A zoetrope is one of the earliest forms of animation. It is basically a cylinder with a series of pictures inside, which is spun around and is viewed through a slit in the front.
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Step Six
Put a bunch of drawings together to create a flip book. Each drawing should have slight change in position of something, like a ball bouncing. The pages are flipped through fast, and movement is created.