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Summary: How to use squiggles and irregular shapes when daring a cartoon in 3D; learn tips, ticks and more for creating realistic cartoon drawings in this free online art lesson about cartoons taught by expert Matt Moskal.
Matt Moskal is a free-lance artist with a BA in Elementary / Special Education. He has taught Kindergarten through 6th grade in the Philadelphia School District since 2003, using his...read more
"We are going to look a little bit more into 3D right now. First thing you want to do if you are making a cartoon situation or a scene you want to think about we are going to do an inside of a room. Now pick a corner of the room and then here is our floor. We are going to branch out and then the corner goes up from here. So we have one wall another wall and a floor. If you ever look at cartoons you will see a lot of drawings like this. Now to show that these are walls you can put a window. Now remember everything on this wall has the same slant as this line so and everything going up has the same angle as this line so we will make our window parallel, parallel, parallel. So see the vertical lines are parallel and the horizontal lines are parallel and here is our window and we can make it three four panes. Put little hash marks just to show it's a window. Those don't have to be the same parallel. And give it a frame. Again using the same parallel lines. And the same with the door on this side. Now I am on this wall so this door has to the bottom of the door and the top of the door have to be parallel. And if I make a window in the door that has to be also parallel and then the doorknob and the door frame. Again these lines are all parallel. They are all on the same angle as the wall. "
eHow Article: Using Irregular Shapes to Make a 3D Cartoon Drawing