Drawing a favorite cartoon character

Fifty First Post: Drawing a favorite cartoon character

What if you took one cartoon character or comic book character and drew one drawing of them of a different pose each day. Well in a couple of months you would have a lot of drawings. They would show how your drawings improved. The main idea is that in no time at all you would be an expert at drawing your favorite character. Of coarse, it wouldn’t end with one character. Your overall drawing would improve and you might be led to make your own characters.

The idea isn’t new, but it does show that a 15 to 30 minute sketch can really improve your drawing. As read in drawing books, anyone can draw cartoons. You decide how the cartoon looks. It doesn’t have to be entirely realistic style, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is challenging to draw cartoons and it does take practice. Cartoons are drawn from many poses and sometimes simplified art is harder to draw when trying to convey what the drawing is a picture of. Breaking the cartoon into basic shapes and then adding detail little by little is a technique that is taught. What better drawing subject to use besides you favorite character. Let’s see how a little bit of practice can improve our drawing.