Cartooning Supplies

Series Summary

Cartoons look simple but draw from the same artistic traditions as painting and sketching. Drawing is a visual art which makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, and various metals. A cartoonist uses these tools to draw cartoons, whether for animation or comics. A cartoonist traditionally sketches pictures out roughly in pencil before going over the them in black ink or giving them to a colorist. The disposable villain is not only a former indie rock band from Detroit, but also a favorite stock cartoon character: most cartoons have a villain who loses to the hero anew each episode. In this free cartooning video series, artist and cartoonist Matt Cail teaches you how to draw facial expressions on cartoons. You will learn the subtle line tricks that allow cartoonists to capture the human face in minimalist style. Cail teaches you how to draw happy faces, sad, angry, surprised and ecstatic faces, and more! Drawing the human face in cartoons takes practice and study, and Cail gives you tips on becoming a master cartoonist over time.

Video Transcript

"Hello and welcome to an introduction to cartoon expressions. Today we're going to learn how to draw all sorts of expressions from happy to sad to angry, and everything else in between. First, though, we need to cover supplies you're going to need today. We're going to start off with some really good pieces of white paper. Nice big things on which we're going to have a lot of room to draw our creations today. Next we're going to the various implements we're going to be using to put lines down on paper. Starting with a pencil. Good old basic pencil. Nothing too fancy, here, just to get our lines down and be able to erase in case you don't like them. Next we're going to have a variety of colored markers when we cover some coloring today. In terms of like, putting skin shades on, clothing, hair, etcetera. We're also going to cover a gamut of ink pens. These ink pens come in two different varieties. First off, we have our nice basic felt pen. And you can get this in a lot of grocery stores, convenient stores, etcetera. No problem at all there, very common, nice and basic, and really cheap too. And, on a more specialized front, we're going to have our more fine tipped felt pens, here. Now these guys are to provide very, very intricate detail. Really get in there. You know, do things like eyebrow shapes, and mouth shapes, shading even. Texture and tone. In which, just basically, are other felt pens which have a thicker top just can't get that level of detail."