You must add detail to your character.
You will be sketching out ideas on a larger piece of paper. You should fill your paper with cartoon designs. Your character can be a human, animal, robot or creature. Your character should be ORIGINAL, so I'm not looking for you to redraw a character that already exists or a derivative of another character (i.e. Mickey Mouse as a zombie). I'm also not looking for you to copy an illustration from google.
- Start with basic shapes -- circles, squares, rectangles, triangles.
- Sketch! Make your lines light and fluid
- Combine shapes
- Use axis lines to change the direction of a character's attention.
Use a photograph to help with position and movement, but don't use illustrations and copy them.
Once you feel like you have a good direction for your character, try exploring your character a few different ways:
- Find things to exaggerate! Hair, glasses, a feature, etc.
- Try drawing the same character only using geometric shapes
- Try drawing the character using only circles or rounded rectangles
- Try drawing your character with an enlarged head, or body.
- Try drawing your character with LOTS of detail
- Try drawing your character with simple detail.
- Try drawing your character with a different facial expression
Head shapes could be one shape (a circle; a square) or combined shapes (a circle and a square).
Don't avoid tough areas! Break them down into basic shapes. Human hands, for example, can be broken down into circles and ovals:
Here are some other examples:
