How to Draw Cartoons

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Part of the video series: Drawing & Painting Tips

Summary: Drawing cartoons first requires creating a character from basic shapes, putting the character into action and exaggerating its features and movements. Draw cartoons, adding more detail as the drawing progresses, with a demonstration from an experienced artist and art supply store employee in this free video on drawing and painting.

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By David Lamplugh
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Contact: www.aselart.com

The staff at Asel Art in Austin, Texas, has more than 90 years of combined experience creating art in a variety of mediums. Lisa Wright, David Lamplugh, Laura Pace and Tres Hoyt have...read more

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"Hi, my name is David Lamplugh and I work for Asel Art Supplies in Austin Texas. I'm here today to answer some questions about how to draw cartoons. Okay, so I'm going to try and do this cartoon character in motion. See, it was good that I built everything on shapes because I kind of know what those shapes are going to look like when they move. Here's my cartoon character, you know, still kind of droopy, but he's going to be running for something. I don't exactly know what. There he is. Pursed lips and of course, I put the mullet on so it's going to be flying back behind him. Again, exaggeration, you want to get kind of big moves and get that mullet flying back behind him. Make him mullet man. Okay? Kind of got the head, body pitched a little. Back, this happens when we run. This just closer to you, again, just a shape. You're trying to get size proportion to get the best dynamic that you can. Just kind of trying to get the circles in for the pelvis and lines for the legs and arms limbs. Let's move John back a little bit. Now we're going to start working a little bit on anatomy. I kind of go and do kind of the figure unclothed first to a certain degree. Get the form underneath before you start working on everything fold in a suit jacket. I think this guy kind of needs a jacket, so I'm going to start with it first. Working on the cartoon head. I don't know why this guy is going top speed and has the sleepy look on his face, but maybe it's part of his job. This is our routine. You can make those decisions yourself. And that is how you kind of finish up a cartoon character, you know, putting in the hand close, the hand far away, kind of trying to keep them the same. They're made out of similar shapes, so it should be easy to kind of match them up. Yeah. There we go. Putting that leg and it's a little out to the side. That's how we run. And you kind of condense it into shapes and, let's see, suit jackets have collars and lapels, usually falls right around where the tie is. Okay, and my character is pretty much getting to completion here. And that is how you draw cartoons, my friend."