Drawing Cartoon Characters Through Animation Techniques

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A great way to learn to draw cartoon characters and add life to them is through studying some classical animation techniques. You don’t have to want to be an animator, but you need to want to be willing to master some valuable lessons that may potentially liven up your drawings with animation techniques such as for example squash and stretch, anticipation and exaggeration. ugly characters cartoon Consider Disney and Pixar as examples. Have you ever seen a poorly developed character from these studios? Even probably the most grotesque villain or monster had a certain visual appeal. Animators have to draw a character over and over hundreds if not 1000s of times to obtain the movement down perfectly to exhibit weight and personality. One reason is, to animate a character, it’s design had to be able to convey the proper message in its movement. If a character was poorly drawn then it’d animate poorly, which will be unacceptable. The animators had to be able to animate and move the characters around in as easy and efficient manner as you possibly can to recapture the audiences attention. Pretty amazing for something as simple as a line drawing.The significance of a well drawn cartoon character was among the crucial first steps in achieving their goals.

OK now, step one, learn to draw basic shapes and turn them in to a three dimensional counterpart, for instance: a circle to a sphere, a square in to a box, etc. After you have the ability to do this (with practice), then you can move on to next step which can be, manipulating the design by twisting, squashing and stretching it into various forms and easily create many types of characters by combining shapes together. Next (as always) practice drawing constantly and consistently. You can’t skip this task and expect to cultivate as an artist and draw appealing characters. After you have the ability to draw a fundamental character shape utilizing the techniques described above it is possible to expand and alter the shape(s) to your liking. The planet is yours! Always remember to also draw from life because it is the foremost teacher, providing you the capability to draw realistic movement that’ll transfer into your character.

Visit the entire world of classical animation to see how you have the ability to use some of these techniques to improve your cartoon character drawing. There are many of online resources along with books available to assist you, so remember to keep a sketchbook with you at all times. Sometimes, when drawing cartoon characters, you have to check outside your field of interests to simply help develop a skill and through the fabulous world of classical animation we are able to gain lots of valuable inspiration, knowledge and insight.

Andre “Dre” Saunders attended Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland as an art major. He started freelancing as an artist and illustrator and has labored on projects for such clients as Dupont and the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children along with creating several covers for a small book publisher.