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By far, the most commonly used cartoon body shape is "The Bean." Another helpful shape that I personally like to use is a modification of "The Bean," I'll call, "The Bullet." It's a shape I learned from my favorite Figure Drawing teacher, Steve Huston. So let me explain these shapes.

The usefulness of The Bean comes from it's flexibility. It can be bent, stretched and twisted easily. It can also be modified to create many different types of torso shapes. It's a fairly standard shape for most traditional, western, animated cartoon characters, from Mickey Mouse and his gang to the Looney Tunes characters.

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The Bullet is similar to the The Bean. However, it's just a tad more complicated. It's made up of two shapes, a bullet shaped cylinder facing down, inserted into a soft cornered box hip area. The idea is that the bottom round bullet part of the upper shape immediately creates the shape of the abdominal muscles adding an anatomical feel to your drawing from the start.

This shape is best used when drawing more naturalistic, anatomical cartoon characters such as anime or action adventure characters. But it can also be use to supplement a modified Bean shape to add more naturalism to an exaggerated cartoon shape:

This shape is not unique to me. I got this from The Famous Artist School book on The Figure as well as Walt Reeds book on The Figure. I found this hip shape comes just as handy for cartoons as it does for naturalistic figures.

The most naturalistic version of the formula comes in play in this anime style. There's far less exaggeration here. The Bullet comes into it's own when drawing in this style. Let's begin with a female torso:

The simples folds in cartoons can be done with bumps in just the right spots. It's not too difficult and early comic strip cartoons used them all the time. If you don't want to get into anything complicated, this is the way to go:

For the sake of this lesson, I decided to distill the information into the folds most used in cartoons. These are not all the folds there are. There are a few other fold types I won't be covering here.

This is in spite of the fact that, in reality, folds sometimes go AGAINST the direction of the form beneath. This is where we take artistic license and h adjust things so that we don't confuse anyone looking at our drawing.

Bruce Timm Style folds fluctuate a lot. Sometimes they're so minimal that they practically don't exist, while other times they can be quite elaborate. It really depends on the type of drawing you're making and how simple you want to go with it.

In this easy cartoon drawing tutorial, you'll learn how to draw cartoon characters. A good cartoonist is one who can extract the main details of an object or a human being and represent them with simple shapes. The goal is that a child can recognize the drawing and be attracted to what they're looking at.

Children are the main audience for cartoons. Masters like Walt Disney, Hanna & Barbera, Chuck Jones, Jim Henson, Walter Lantz and many others have enchanted the world with their magical and eternal characters.

My role here is to help you understand the proper way to assemble this puzzle. I'll teach you how to draw characters from the techniques presented. I guarantee you'll be shocked at how easy it is to create a cartoon expression that children (and adults) will adore.

Before jumping into cartoon face drawing, we'll talk about the basics of human perception. Human beings have a very interesting feature: we can synthesize the details that make up a structure or an object in very complex ways into very basic and simple ones. In this way, we can represent any type of thing through a few curves and geometric shapes.

What happens is that, unlike artists, most people can't tell from memory all the details that make up a car, a dog, or even a child. So they start to associate very basic and primitive shapes with the specific characteristics of each object. How many children of 4, 5, or 6 years old came from school with a drawing of two circles and some toothpicks on a piece of paper and said: "That's mommy and daddy!"?

Let's start with cartoon face drawing. The basic cartoon shape is a circle. Circle Is All You Need (besides Love, of course). It's from the circle that you define the basic proportions of your character's head. You can try some variety and also draw an oval head cartoon shape.

Let's learn how to draw cartoon eyes. To make the eyes, draw an oval shape with a slight tilt to the side at the top. Repeat on the opposite side. It is important to leave a gap between them of approximately the same size as an eye. As we are in the drafting phase, you can draw another eye in the center to serve as a measure.

We've arrived at the most creative freedom of the whole course. Think of it this way: in cartoon style designs, the main structure of a face is the skull and the eyes of the character. It is at that stage where you define the identification with the external world, i.e. it's already clear to people that you're drawing a character.

Notice that when drawing a little child's mouth, the lips shouldn't be drawn. In cartoon style, children, regardless of gender, have quite simple mouths. A good and expressive cartoon trace already does the job.

The shape of our skull is already defined by the circle we did at the beginning, right? So we just need a very simple and childish haircut to give life to our boy. Let's do it now. Now you have your basic cartoon trace.

An accurate and fast way of drawing cartoon hair is to seek photos or even cartoon character references on the web. I do this all the time: grab a fashion magazine or try a Google search. After finding the ideal style, put the image as a reference next to your drawing board (or tablet) and start making a simplified cartoon version of it.

Here are some more cool cartoon characters to draw. Older characters can be easy cartoon drawings. As usual, let's start with the eyes. This time we will draw faster, adding wrinkles, eyebrows, and the eye pupils.

We've just added some side hair and left him bald on top. Amazing how it creates a totally different look, isn't it? Also notice that I took the same ear from Tommy, our beloved boy. That's the advantage of working on templates. That's the magic of cartoon!

When thinking about cartoon characters to draw, emotions and facial expressions should come to mind. We're now ready to add more emotions to our dear Lucy (yes, that's her name). Let's draw her after receiving the news that the school holidays have come to an end...

In this section, you'll learn that eyes, noses, mouths, and cartoon ears are easy things to draw if you observe them carefully. All the details that make up the face change their shape when viewed from different angles. It's very common to see cartoon characters looking in every possible direction with different camera angles, because they will need to react to situations and objects around them. This helps bring them more to life.

Now we will put into practice everything we have learned so far... Below you'll find a basic cartoon face drawing template (only circles and directional guides) where we can practice our drawing skills in different positions:

It's up to you now. There are so many easy cartoon characters to draw. I guess you can walk alone and explore the techniques I gave to you to complete the drawings. Remember that cartoon face drawing has two premises:

Once you've managed to sketch the direction of the eyes and have chosen the proper chins, try to use your creativity to build however many faces you want. You can be sure that, if you practice at least ten minutes per day with the techniques presented here, drawing cartoon faces will be as natural to you as breathing.

We are nearing the end of our cartoon face drawing tutorial. As a last tip, I would encourage you to continue experimenting with facial expressions and, whenever possible, to invest more in studies of the face. Learn how the eyes and mouth behave in different situations. Take a look at different ethnicities and their key features.

Whenever possible, try to give a little more realism to your characters. Observe the behavior of people in real life. Look at photos, study the style of your favorite artist, or search for inspiration on the Internet. It's when we look to real life that we can extract quality information for our drawings. But remember: observing the real world does not mean copying. You want your character to be unique and not a copy of reality, right?

Now you know the basic techniques used by the best cartoon artists around the world. There is plenty more to come, and this is just a small fraction of the cartoon drawing tutorials I'll be presenting to you. Up next, we're going to dig deeper into cartoon expressions.

Now you know how to draw cartoon characters. I hope you liked this tutorial. Do you want to find more easy cartoon characters to draw? Or are you thinking of improving the outline of your cartoon characters? Here are some cool tutorials and resources:

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In this course, accomplished story artist and illustrator Tim Hodge breaks down his approach drawing cartoon animals. He demos numerous tips & techniques that he has learned over his 30+ year career and shares them with you.

Tim is a great instructor. I enjoyed the lessons. Some straightforward tips that he provided during these courses have helped me significantly, including avoiding tangents, contour lines, and watching the silhouette of the overall drawing. Thank you!

Thanks for posting these good advices James!

By the way, do you have any idea where this fashion of depicting cartoon charachters with gloves come from? It already stroke me as a child but I still don't know the reason!

Is it because black hands (for instance Mickey's)would be too tricky? 2351a5e196