Monday, August 22, 2011

Learning to Draw Yourself as a Cartoon Character

Most of the kids including the adult ones delight in watching cartoons at homes or in the web. Cartoons are appealing, simplistic, attractive and enjoyable to see. It has exaggerate expressions of faces in a certain situation that could make you laugh quietly. They sometimes make you remember yourself when you were young, the way you are at this moment and just how you desired to be. By which, it provides a thought what it really looks like to become a cartoon character.

Making yourself like a cartoon character is simple even you're not a cartoonist or expert in drawing. Sketching some simple curve lines based on your mood and exaggerating certain parts on your own body is enough to create a cartoon portrait of yourself.

Proportionality

Get a picture of yours as a trace. Draw a cross line to keep the several facial features well balanced and in proportion to one another.

Shape of the face

Observe the shape and size of the face physically in the picture. Then draw it. You can be creative as you like. Different mixture of size and shape in cartoon results into fashionable cartoon character. Cartoon's heads usually are not limited to a circular form. You can attempt to draw with squares or triangular heads.

Draw the eyes, nose, ears and mouth

As we can see in the cartoon movies, cartoon characters have really big eyes. Lots of emotions is usually express in big eyes. A cartoon character could be adorable, pleasant, friendly, cute or sensitive if it has a bigger eye. There are lots of approaches in making yourself in to a good cartoon character. One of this is to draw a big circular shape in the eye as the pupil. And then, adding some more details to it to make it more real cartoon one, like putting lashes allow it to become innocent.

Similar to the real face, we know where to locate these different facial features, like nose, ears, eyes and mouth. In drawing the nose, draw just like a tear drops for the holes of the nose. To give the depth of it, draw a lightly circle or triangle at the end of the nose. Then draw a long line from the eye brow to the soft line out from the nostril.

Basically, ears are on the right side of the eye. Draw a half circle or curve shape to draw ears. You can then add some lines to it.

Different figures of the mouth give different expression on the face. You could just draw a circle or simply a huge curve line for the smile to draw in a mouth. You can emphasize it more with the teeth or with the size of the lips. A simple curve line is better to create a nice smile of the cartoon.

Finally, turning yourself into a cartoon character will depend on how you will creatively draw it. Exaggerating facial features like when you have a bigger nose, draw it larger so that it is just like a cartoon. And also it can be apply to the varioust features of your face. Never forget the proportionality of the eyes, nose and mouth in order that the cartoon you draw is greatly similar to yourself. Try practice many mixture of facial features as possible. In this manner, you'll make yourself as a cartoon drawing easier as the time progresses.

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