Posted by How-To | Posted in Face Parts, For Beginners | Posted on 17-10-2009
When drawing a cartoon face there are no limits – you can draw it with enormous ears, huge eyes, baby size nose, and whatever weird characteristics you can imagine. It’s a cartoon, and it’s your cartoon – you can do it with absolute freedom.
However, in order for the common viewer to understand that your piece of art is actually a face, there are a few basics you should know before creating your cartoon head. The guidelines for each cartoonist can variate, but basically we all use similar basics.
In this part I’ll be showing you the step by ‘guidelines drawing method’, step by step. We’ll be using several sets of guidelines, so to make it easier each set of guidelines will get it’s own color.
The final cartoon face we’ll be drawing is this:
Let’s start – As the ordinary human face, the cartoon face is basically oval. Draw an oval shape. Now add 3 guidelines – one vertical in the middle of the head, and 2 horizontal which divides the oval shape into 3 horizontal parts, as follows:
If your a cartoon doodling newbie, you’re probably struggling with the basics – How big should the eyes be? Where should you draw the ears, and what is the right size of a nostril?? Every cartoonist have been through this step, and now I’ll be showing you a trick that will help you pass it with ease.
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
Posted by How-To | Posted in Face Parts | Posted on 10-10-2009
Now that we’re supposed to know how to draw some 12 different girl expressions, let’s give our model Lilly 6 different hair styles.
Girl hairstyling, as in real life, is pure fun. You can draw it big and fluffy as you’d like, pulled up or as long or short as you’d like, and it will be a great hairdo. Yep, girls hair is easy to draw.
Like when drawing men hair, Girls also have a hair part. it’s usually in the right side, but you can draw it however you want, of course. Since I usually draw my faces looking to the left, the hair part will usually be in the right side, simply because it’s easier to draw this way:
Let’s start with the basic curly long hair. What makes it basic is the face that there’s no limit with curly hair – it can be very short and close to the head, and when it’s huge – it becomes Afro:
