| | | Lesson 11 | | | | Idea visualization | | If you want to become a good cartoonist, then now start drawing cartoons with an idea. In a good gag cartoon idea is very important. Often you succeed in making people laugh with your funny idea shown in the cartoon even if your drawing is not that good. | | | Practice to visualize funny ideas and try to draw cartoons showing those ideas. Use written words in the cartoons if there is a need. Put those words in speech bubbles as done in the cartoon shown below. However, try to avoid using too many words. You can also show a funny idea in two panels or more as done in comics. | | | | Below is a cartoon with a funny idea. | | | | | |
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| | | Lesson 10 | | | | Coloring | | If you want to color any cartoon there are many options. You can color with hands using watercolor, poster color or you can use graphic software. PhotoShop is a good graphic software for coloring any work of art. It has better effect than coloring with water color or poster color. A good feature of this software is that you can go back if you make some mistakes in coloring. | | | The following are the steps to color a cartoon in PhotoShop using Brush tool | | | - Open the drawing you want to paint or fill color in after scanning it and saving it in your computer system.
- Click on magic wand tool (or press key W)
- Take the mouse to the area you want to color. It must be circled.
- Click on the circled area. Now that area is selected.
- Now go to Brush tool (or press key B). Now Brush is selected.
- Chose the color of Brush by clicking on the ‘Set foreground color’ option in the tool bar
- Make large or small the size of Brush by clicking on [ and ] keys.
- Start coloring the selected area of the drawing by moving the mouse.
- After finishing the coloring, press Control + D to deselect the area of drawing
- Your coloring is complete
- You can repeat the same process to color every part of the drawing.
| | | | Below is a cartoon colored using PhotoShop. | | | | | |
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| | | Lesson 9 | | | | Drawing caricature | Caricature is an exaggerated and humorous visual representation of a person. You should try to draw caricatures once you have started to make good cartoon.
Study of facial features of a person is required if you want to draw caricature of the person. Try to figure out what the prominent features in the face of the person are. | | | For example here are two faces. Study them and try to figure out the most prominent features of the faces. | | | | | | | You will notice that the first person has prominent forehead, chin and eyebrows. You will also notice that the second person has prominent nose, cheeks and chin. Now try to draw the two figures exaggerating their prominent facial features. | | | | | |
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| | | Lesson 8 | | | | Backgrounds | | The use of background in a cartoon is to show the proper perspective of the scene shown in the drawing. It shows the location, time and mood of the characters shown in the drawing. | | | While drawing background, you should keep horizon-line and vanishing point in mind. Horizon line is the height from where the viewer is seeing a certain scene in the drawing while the vanishing-point is that point where two parallel lines running into the distance seem to meet or disappear.
You should practice to draw several backgrounds to various characters.
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| | | Lesson 7 | | | | Shading | | Shading can be done both through the use of fine lines in the drawings or with thicker outer lines of drawings. Use of shades gives a better impact to the drawing or cartoon and makes it look alive. | | | Shading should be used in the opposite direction, from where light is coming. | | | | | |
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| | | Lesson 6 | | | | Animal drawing | | Drawing various animals is fun. You should start with the basic shapes like round and oval and slowing fill in the details to make the full animal drawings. | | | Initially try to make the figure resemble the animal you are drawing and then by practice improve it. Animal drawing are often used in background however they are also used as main characters in many drawings centered on animals. | | | | Study how the common animals you see daily look like and try to draw as they look. | | | | | | | | |
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| | | Lesson 5 | | | | Men and women | As you have now learnt how to draw full human figures, practice to draw men and women of all ages in various clothes and actions with right facial expressions.
Closely observe the various uniforms worn by people of various professions like police, doctor, lawyer, etc. in life or on television and try to draw them. Also try to draw characters with accessories like purse, bag, glasses, umbrella, etc. | | | |
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| | | Lesson 4 | | | | Human body | | Try to draw sketch of a full human body. To make the full figure you can start with the basic shapes like round or oval. Then try to put in complete details. | | | | Practice to get the general proportions right. You can exaggerate the size of the head. This allows you to get facial expressions that can be easily seen. In drawing cartoons you can also exaggerate the facial as well as body proportions a bit to make the cartoon look funny. Though overdoing it will not have a god impact. Initially try to make the body proportions right and after lot of practicing exaggerate the proportions for comical effect. | | | | Try to draw figures of all types of people – fat, lean and average. | | | |
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| | | Lesson 3 | | | Full face
Now practice to draw faces of both men and women with different hair styles, faces and expressions. Closely observe people around you and try to draw faces as they look in real life. | | | | Also try to draw faces in profile. | | | |
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| | | Lesson 2 | | | Expressions
After practicing to draw faces, we will learn how to make various expressions on faces. You should learn to draw various expressions using drawing of eyes. Try to make various sketches showing happiness, anger, surprise and sorrow. Eyes are the most expressive part of the face, so practice drawing eyes several times. | | | | | | | Now practice to draw lips showing various expressions. Show expressions like happiness, anger, surprise and sorrow through lips. | | | |
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