that’s the final image:

You’re welcome to view the speed drawing video of Santa Clause, drawn only with a Photoshop and a wacom pen. This is my best drawing so far, enjoy:

The simple trick which I’m about to show not only answer the above questions, but will actually help you come up with some nice final cartoons!

What do you need:

- magazine

- white paper (should be slightly transparent)

- pencil

The trick origins:

I’ve seen my mom does this hundreds of times: When she’s bored she takes a newspaper, chooses an image within it, and simply go over the face outlines – the eyes, mouth, chin, etc. Many times she adds some ‘extras’ – Obama receives a pony tail, Hilary got herself a new mustache…

As a little girl, I found myself imitating my mom by doing the same: taking a newspaper, picking an image and going over the lines to create my own funny image. I Now realize that this very simple thing we were doing was a wonderful exercise in cartoon face drawings!

Improve your face drawing skills:

Pick a nice photo in the magazine. Put the white paper over the photo, and make  sure you still see the picture through it. If not, you’ll probably wanna use a thinner paper.

• To see thorough a thick paper, you can put the paper and magazine against a window glass (when there’s still light outside…). The light will go through the magazine and the paper, and so you’ll see the picture though the white paper.

Draw the magazine picture’s outlines on the white paper - face, eyes, mouth, ears, chin… and there you have it – a simple doodly face. Now that you have a great base of a face you can leave the magazine and make the outlines you just drew into a cartoon face by adding hair and everything you think is needed.

Video example:

In this quick doodling video I chose a ‘Cosmopolitan’ magazine cover, since it simply has nice girl images. I’ve used this trick for a computerized doodling, but this can easily be implied on any real life paper and magazine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6yIOs-Tls

I call this trick ‘The cosmopolitan’, since it requires a nice magazine with a quality image on it. However, every magazine and newspaper,  and actually any picture, will do for this trick.

Good luck!

Notice that in this quick speed doodling tutorial I show the ‘circles’ method of doodling – drawing a base for the pig shapes, and than it’s easier for me to go over the lines and create the final piggy.

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1g4Hf-EugY

Yes, it’s not exactly a ‘how to draw’ post, and it’s also doodling directly to a computer program! But wait, just look at this 2 videos, and you’ll find that this speed doodling  can provide excellent tips and inspiration for all kinds of drawing methods.

This surprized fox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Su8Q1sb0CE

The lazy bunny is a nice one – pure fresstyle doodling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Cy2sfFRCA

The following series of ‘Expertvillage’ contains 39 quick lessons for cartoon drawing – from the very basic shape of the head, to the eyes, hands and body.

Enjoy!

(Scroll between lessons by clicking the side arrows)