Cartoon Drawing Techniques: Finishing off the Pose Now that you’ve created the basic pose in the previous lesson on cartoon drawing techniques, it’s now time to go back into the drawing to clean up your lines and learn how to polish the pose. But what does ‘Tighten Up Your Drawing’ mean? If you’ve never heard …
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Drawing Hair and Clothing When learning about drawing hair and clothing, the hairline is the anchor for drawing in the rest of the hair. When deciding on a hairstyle for your character, keep in mind that there are many different ways to draw a hairline. The above is an example of a “Widow’s Peak”. Mistakes …
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Drawing Hairlines Ready to learn more about drawing hairlines? We’ve mentioned it before, but the hairline is always the first order of business once you have constructed the subject’s head. The hairline anchors your character’s head and the hair flows out from it. Hair Stems from the Part When drawing hairlines on female characters, the …
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How to Draw Clothes on a Person: Setting up the Structure Before you begin learning how drawing clothes on a person, you need to understand the structure of your subject. Whether you intend to draw tight or loose clothing on a person, their pose will affect how the clothing rests on their figure. Surface Direction Once …
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How to Draw Tight Clothing: Creases and Folds Want to learn how to draw tight clothing for your pin up or cartoon characters? You’re in the right place! This is an enlarged sketch of our earlier drawing where we focused on surface direction and drew a bathing suit. The right leg is coming forward and …
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How to Draw Loose Clothing: Create the Underlying Form Want to learn how to draw loose clothing? Start off your drawing with strong construction and a good pose. This is known as ‘creating the underlying form’ and it’ll provide you with a strong foundation for your finished pin-up drawing.Even though the final drawing will have clothes on …
Drawing Hair and Clothing | 07 |Loose Clothing and Surface Direction Read More »
Hand Drawing Basics Learning hand drawing basics is a great way to get started with character designs, cartoons, or portraits. After all, drawing hands and feet is one of the things that give a lot of people trouble, even professional artists. The trick to becoming good at drawing these features is to keep practicing until …
Drawing Hands and Feet | 01 |How to Learn Hand Drawing Basics Read More »
How to Draw a Cartoon Male Face: Starting Off To get started with learning how to draw a cartoon male face, you’ll be using the same basic egg shape you’ve been drawing in the previous tutorials. But this time, instead of having the nice smooth jawline you’ve been making for the females, you’re going to need to make the jawline more …
Face Fundamentals | 07 |Drawing a Realistic Male Face Read More »
How to Draw Hand Poses Beginner’s Mistakes: Symmetrical Ovals Want to learn how to draw hand poses? Many artists struggle to draw fingers and hands, so learning how to draw hand poses is a really useful skill. One common mistake is the sausage fingers gripping an object. Four perfectly symmetrical ovals side by side is …
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Drawing Hands and Feet: Drawing Hands Pushing on a Surface Ready to learn about drawing hands and feet? When drawing hands on a surface, inexperienced artists will often show the hand perfectly flat, the entire surface of the palm and the fingers pressed down. This leads to a very flat appearance which is not particularly interesting …
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