How to Draw Cartoon Characters : How to Visualize Drawing a Cartoon Character

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Hi, I'm Danny Page and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. In this series I'm going

to teach you how to draw basic cartoon characters. Alright, moving on to what I like to call

pre-visualization, where you basically stare down the page and figure out exactly what

your dimensions are going to be. Now one thing you're always going to want to have when just

sketching out random ideas and particularly creating new characters. If you are interested

in writing a comic script or an animated series or this is sort of the place where all cartoon

artists, visual artists, you know animators go to create the characters from scratch.

What they will typically do is, they'll have their canvas, sort of the page that they'll

end up presenting to whoever it is that they're going to be showing these characters to in

their initial form and then just a couple pages either above or below it they'll have

their sketch page. Basically where all their ideas can be put down and won't have to worry

about it looking neat or messy. In fact this page is going to be getting really, really

crazy messed up cause we're going to be jotting down just basic ideas as far as dimensions

are concerned. We're not concerned about shapes, just getting ideas down basically is the only

thing we'll be doing this. So your ideas can kind of flow you know as you kind like get

ideas for dimensions and like you mess with certain things and you might decide you know

to do with a different shape like, create something a little bit more unusual and these

are just rough sketches trying to get a basic idea as to what it is we're trying to do here.

And there's really no bad ideas on this page. It's all just free flowing imagination. We're

going to come back to this page quite a bit as we go. But this is basically your brainstorming

page and this page is going to be your finished product fed page that we're actually going

to sketch out the actual finished sketch on. So we'll be kind of rotating back and forth

between the two pages. So good to know that. Make sure you have a couple pages available

to you, either go out and buy yourself your own sketch book which you know any self respecting

cartoon artist ought to have one, but if you just need a couple of pages that will do the

job too. So here we go.

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