Fundamental Of Character Drawing for Beginners

1. Introduction: Are you ready to bring your cartoon characters to life? Join my beginner's character drawing class where you learn how to draw amazing cartoon characters using just a pencil, erasor, and a paper. In this class, I'll start with the basics of drawing a cartoon head. Teaching you the essential principles of facial features and expressions. You'll discover how to create unique and memorable faces that will capture your audience's imagination. Once you've mastered the head, I'll guide you through the process of drawing a complete cartoon character. From head to toe, you'll learn how to give your character personality, style, and movement. No prior experience is needed. Just bring your enthusiasm and your basic drawing tools. Let's turn your imagination into incredible art work. 2. How to draw a cartoon character head: Hello, again, everyone. Welcome to another part of character designing together. Now, we're going to work on a bit more advanced phase, so I'm going to work on a different phase today. But again, right from the beginning, again, I have to create a very general shape of the face of that character I'm going to create. Again, I'll start with my circle because this is a very basic shape of the face. Then let's see what varieties, what differences I can add to this shape, little by little, and step by step. Okay. But the general shape that I'm going to work with is the circle. For example, I want to place the eyes in the eyebrows basically in the upper semicircle of my circle. I want my eyes to be a very big circle and a very big shape over here, right here. As I told you, both the eyes and the eyebrows are on the upper half, so I also want to create a shape like this between the two eyes, and I want to place the eyebrows over here coming out. Now, then step by step, I'm also changing the shape of the face as I'm moving forward on my basics and principles. I say you can always work more different than I do. It's not a force that I say do exactly what I do here or create exactly this face. No. That depends on you. You can create any other character, any other reference that you'd like. Now, I want the lower half to be a bit chubbier. From here, I come out a little, you see, I come out of my circle and I go back in again to reach the bottom. Maybe even more into the work. I when I preceded more. I want to even work more on it and change it more. That would be the nose placement, and I want to the lips or the mouth over here. Here, I've got the lips, and of course, the chin. Now, let's just step one more further. Let's take a step further. Over here on the top of the head, let me just erase the lines. Because I've actually decided to make this upper area just the tao smaller closer to the eyebrows. Then I want to create only some hair right here in front. I raise that extra line like that. Now, for the eyebrows, I emphasize on these lines a bit more. Then I want to continue the eyebrows all the way to the side. From this side, I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to continue the eyebrows all the way to the edge of the face or to the side of the face. This would be my character's eyebrows. Looks so fun. Doesn't it? Here, I might got some wrinkles around the eye. Then I've got the ys here, so I create a very big circle for its yes. Here goes the eyes, another big circle, not as big as the first one, but that would be the pupil. We try to give it a color like this. See. This is the pup of my character that I've darkened inside. And I'll do the same thing for this side as well. It's looking cuter already. These are the eye shapes of our character. Now. Again, I want to change the cheeks and extend them. Sing, my dear friends. Just over and over again, you decide to change your character, even as I said, during your work, you might like something to become bigger, some other things to become smaller, don't worry about it, and don't be afraid of editing your work and change your work any time that you want during it. Okay? It's got a very chubby face. I even made his cheeks bigger by extending the bottom half of my circle, bottom half of the face. I also create these curved lines right below the eye so I can emphasize on the cheeks. Now, for example, I placed the nose here and now I want to place the nose side and stick it to the eyes. You see, the nose gets really bigger because I've just stucked the sides of the nose to the side of the eyes. Here we go. That's the nose and the rest of the nose would actually go up and connect the eyebrow lines. I also create a curved line over here to show the nose and I just shape it a little as well. Two lines for the side of the nose. To emphasize the size of the nose. Now, for the lips and the chin, I want to create a mustache for him. The moustache is coming out right from below the center of the nose, and then I want to extend a smile up to his cheeks. First I've created the smile up to here, but now I've decided to extend his smile as well. I want it to be placed over here. I want the smile to be that extended, you see, I start from here also from this side. Then I erase this and then I connect these two lines together. I attach the mustache to my smile line that I've started from each side. Now, over here. It's got a bigger smile that looks really cooler in my opinion, cuter. Then I also have got my moustache over the lips or over this very big smile. That will be the lower lip Also, below the lower lip, I want to create some hair, to create a bit of beard, not a big one, just a little. Again, my dear friends, that totally goes back to your own creativity in drawing and creation. You don't have any limits in creating characters. You can change any face parts that you like in order to have a cuter character and a more angrier. I know a prettier one. That totally depends on you what the character you want to create and your creativity in its creation. I'm just going to work on some more details now. For example, around the eyes, I'm just going to emphasize on the lines, making them prettier and cuter at the same time. It's got some googly eyes. I'm loving it so far. I hope you feel the same with this or with your own character. Now, let's work on the hair. Let's see how we can create a hair. I forgot about the ears. I want them to be one on this cheek and another on the other cheek like this. Yeah. I want the hair to look like fire flames. You see? Like this. It's like a fire flame coming out behind of his ears. That's how I want to create his hair. I look like an old scientist in the cartoons. See how this hair fits really well with this character. But you can change yours. No limits, don't forget. Yeah. I can even extend my character's eyebrows coming even a bit outer than the face. So the eyebrows are even bigger than the face, or coming out, merging with the hair a bit. That's how it's done. Don't forget about this top part of the hair. Maybe add some wrinkles over and there, some freckles, of the cheeks. Anything that you like, you can add so many other things I like to your character. I'm loving it so much. I hope you feel the same. A sending the bed ale. In the next part, we are also going to create another character together for the one last time. I have we've enjoyed it, practice it, and use your own creativity. Take care and follow us in the next part. 3. How to draw the character of an old man: Hello to all of my dear fins. Welcome to the last part of our tutorial together. We had a great journey together. Let's start our work one last time. Again, I want to create another complete character. We're going to do that together. First, I'm going to create a general shape of the character I want to create. I want my character this time to have a square phase. Now, I make the top of square a bit round. And then I create some hair and ear for him. Also I'll do the same thing on the other side. My character is going to be an old band, so that's why it's got only hair above the ears. As you can see, I've created a curve in the face and then I came down. Again, for the bottom of his face, I'll try to create round lines. Let me just shade the hair first before I continue so you won't confuse it with the ears. Just like that. Here we go. Now, for the forehead, I just create two lines in order to show some wrinkles. Then I can place the eyebrows right over here. This would also be the nose. As the extension of the nose ridge as I come up with the nose line, I attach it to the eyebrows, as you can see, it's got very thick eyebrows. He's got. Then for the eyes, I just place a dot like that. Then for below the eyes, I create some lines as some wrinkles. My old man is a bit angry. He's not having a good time. I'm creating a side mouth for him. It's like he's cringing or something. Like this. I don't want to create any neck for my old band. Because I want to show that he's old and I also want to show that he's tied. I want the shoulders to come up and then I consider it boy from above his head like this. Then I consider his pants from ear below the ears. So he actually dropped his head so far down, so he actually reached his pants. This is the belt of his pants, and there goes the rest of the legs. Let me make my lines meter. So my whole character would be better looking from here. And I separate this area. This would be his legs. And these would be his legs. It's just such a cute old man, but he's angry and tired and old. Now, as I told you this was his body. Also from his pants, I've got two straps coming up and attaching the spans to the pants. One for each side. Let's see how it concrete the arms, and we would be done with him. Some buckles here. I even give them a shape. Now, from here, when it's done, I should create the arms. Now, I want my old man's arms to be continued until the end of his legs. So Right from here, I bring down two curved lines, and I create really long ones. It goes down to here. I'll connect these parts in order to create a sleeve and has a sleeves shapes, and I create the sleeves. It's got long arms almost dragging them on the ground. I also create very long shoes for him. The distance between the shoes and the sleeves would be the placement of my old man's arms and hands. There goes the long shoes. You also color them a little. Here we go. So I create his hand in some kind of like a fist. It's not completely fist, but it's going to be. This is one of his hands, and I'll do the same thing for the other hand. It's a half fist, you know, So these are in the hands. Now let's work on our old man a bit, adding some more details, maybe some colors and shades in order to make our whole character come to life and make it. Then for my characters, two pockets. I also emphasize on my main lines, making them darker. Then I hatch his pockets, even creating them better. Now, For his s, I also consider a shade so they won't feel left out. We don't want that in our whole character. Divi, Okay. Then for here, I also consider some shade and even for the speckle here on the span. Okay. Now, I also work on my old man's ears, making them better with more details. A bit more, not too much. A very light shade for his forehead, even I can create some hair coming out of the rest of his head. Just to add a bit more character and personality to him. I can't even consider nails on him or some designs for his shoes. So shoe laces. And the front part of the shoe as a design. So Again, I say, all of these details just go back to your own creation, your own taste. Whatever you like to add, whatever you like to eliminate, you want to make something bigger, something smaller, add some details to something or don't, that totally depends on you and you. And you are going to get it when you practice it a lot because actually practicing is one of the ways that you can increase your creativity. Each time you create something, you can make it more different. So This is my ben character and our last part of this chapter. I hope you've also enjoyed this beautiful and great interesting tutorial. If you want to even use more advanced tutorials, you can buy our courses and work on them. I hope that you'll enjoy them. You would practice on them over and over again and you improve day by day. See you later in the next chapters.