How to Portray Motion When Drawing a Cartoon Character

Video Transcript

"I want to talk a little bit about how you can give the idea that the character maybe is moving, how you can add motion to the character. Now you are probably saying how can you add motion to a character that you are drawing without doing an animation of the character. Well sure you can, for instance our character right now, he is standing here and he has his hand up in the air so I am going to give the impression that he is waving. However if you want to give the impression that maybe his hand is actually waving like that, you will take your magic marker and start putting little curves around that hand. Again detail – detail – detail, giving the idea that perhaps he is waving his hand back and forth like that. and if he was a nervous looking character you could put like squiggly lines all over his body just to give the idea that maybe he is shaking. He is a shaky kind of cool dude. After you do your work here, always remember to sign your artwork at the bottom here. And there you have it. Once again this has been Paul Louis from CoolClones.com and ReAllusion.com where you can check out my content in the content store. on behalf of ExpertVillage.com, thanks for watching. "