Cartoon Drawing Tips

Series Summary

A cartoon is any form of illustration usually drawn for a humorous effect. The word “cartoon” can refer to one drawing or a series of drawings that are put into motion when viewed in a certain order at a high speed. Comic strips are popular cartoons that are found in newspapers and magazines around the world and usually have a humorous, symbolic, or satirical meaning. Animated cartoons are shown on television for children around the world. Various themes of cartoons include animals, fables, fairytales, super heroes, and anime.

In this series of educational and instructional videos, you will learn how to draw many cartoon figures including people, animals and even inanimate objects. Our entertainment expert gives a step-by-step demonstration on drawing all these things. Begin this series with some easier things like a dog and a cat and by the end of the series you are drawing full landscapes and people interacting with each other in groups. View tips on drawing eyes, eyebrows, a nose, and ears. Learn how to draw different styles of hair on your cartoon character. In these do-it-yourself instructional videos, you can see how an expert draws the arms, legs, feet and torso of a typical cartoon character. Get firsthand tips on adding motion to your new cartoon friend! Use these videos as guidelines for creating your own character and begin a new hobby!

Video Transcript

"Anybody can draw. A lot of people say, maybe half the people I've met, I can't draw. I can't even draw a stick figure. That's silly. Most of it is just that people are afraid. They're afraid to start, like any new thing, they're afraid to try. What I want to show you in this series is that not only can anybody draw, but when you start out it's very easy. If you can make a circle, and not even a good circle. Just throw something on the paper, or a line, or anything else. We all started out in school making stick figures. To this day, I bet all those people who say I can't draw can make a stick figure. From there, that's basically the building blocks. You can draw anything. Especially when it comes to the cartoon world, it doesn't have to perfect. The lines don't have to be symmetrical like they were made by a computer. You can just take it as far as you want to go from there. A really good thing is that people don't realize every time you build a skill, you build something onto you that you can use. I found as a school teacher, that half the teachers feel they have the same fear of drawing. If you just put a stick figure on the board, or something beyond a stick figure, it often brings a lot more of the students in to pay attention. If you're doing a presentation at work if you work in the corporate world. Whatever you do, it always helps. It's a really great skill to have even if you're bored waiting on a plane or something and you just acquire a habit of doodling. It's a fun skill. There we have it."