Video: Cartoon Drawing Tips

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Tips on drawing cartoons and basic pointers you'll need to get started; learn tips, ticks and more for creating realistic cartoon drawings in this free online art lesson about cartoons taught by expert Matt Moskal.

- How to Begin a 3D Cartoon Drawing

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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.

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Cartoon Drawing Tips

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