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Cartoon Drawing Tips: How To Add Depth And Life To Your Drawing

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You are a cartoon fan who loves to draw and show your masterpieces to your friends, parents and teachers. And you are appreciated by them for your work. But sometimes you yourself are enveloped by a feeling of inadequacy, a feeling that the pictures you create lack a life of their own. It is true that what you do is good in terms of details, but still, for some reason unknown to you, it looks flat.

If the lines above describe your situation, don’t get frustrated. Let me tell you that you are not alone, there are many beginners who are facing this problem. But luckily you are different, you are reading this article and it shows that you are thinking of taking some action to address the problem. I ask you to keep reading, you are about to discover a series of simple things that, when applied to your drawing, will make it more real.

This area is often ignored by beginners very concerned with getting the basic form correct. They spend a considerable amount of time getting good at drawing hands, they practice for hours to learn about the various shapes of the human nose.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not here to say that these exercises are not required or to suggest that you can draw beautiful figures without being good at these skills. The only thing I’m trying to emphasize here is that along with these details, some softer aspects are also important to make the characters and the whole composition realistic.

Therefore, equal importance should be given to the softer skills and these will help add depth to your drawing. Here in this article I talk about the soft skills that will make your drawing stand out from the crowd.

1. Make judicious use of shadows in your drawing.

Keep in mind that adding shadows to your drawing doesn’t have to be difficult. Since you won’t be adding real life perfect shadows on your drawing, what you will be adding are indicative shadows, this is basically to serve two main purposes.

has. It will transmit the weight of your fingers,

without this, your characters will appear to be floating in mid-air. Just imagine how amazing it will make your work look.

b. Using shadow in your drawing, you can convey the time of day and the mood of your composition.

if it’s noon [or the mood of the composition is bright] the shadows will be deeper, while at night or the mood is not so euphoric, the shadow will be lighter.

2. Make sure your characters wear clothes that are in line with current fashion, unless of course you’re trying to portray historical figures. If you do this, your viewers will subconsciously relate to the character better. When selecting the color and patterns of clothing, make sure that they are compatible with the mood of the composition. The bottom line is that the more you align your characters with your viewers’ imaginations, the more acceptance you’ll receive.

If you are trying to represent a historical period in your drawing, make sure your knowledge of the period you are trying to capture is sufficient for the job. Even if you are creating a comic strip, you will need to do your research diligently and sufficiently. Just think of Asterix and how detailed those fun characters are in terms of clothing, hairstyles, construction of the characters, etc.

3. Don’t underestimate the power of action lines: Action lines are lines that are mainly used in cartoons to convey the movement of characters. In telling a story with your drawing, the task at hand would require you to draw figures that jump, run, or engage in different kinds of interesting activities. And there is no better way to represent and make these actions believable than using lines of action. Action lines used with care can breathe life into your action heroes.

4. When you are not sure how to express an emotion through the body language of your characters. Stand in front of a mirror and hold and process the thought your character is supposed to have in your own mind and closely watch your body language and facial expression. Then create the character using the image you just saw in the mirror.

5. The props are also important, unless the style of the props and their organization go well with the story, your character may seem like a fish out of water. But on the contrary, if the accessories are compatible, it will greatly increase the credibility of your creation.

6. Use line weight to your advantage: Don’t create your entire drawing with lines that are of uniform thickness, especially when you’re creating an outdoor scene. Use thinner lines to represent distant objects and thicker lines for objects that are closer to the viewer. Also, don’t forget to make distant objects smaller than objects of the same size that are close to the viewer. Following these two guidelines will automatically add a sense of depth to your composition.

7. Learn to draw animals: when it comes to making good drawings, people usually do not realize the fact, unless we reach a certain level of skill in drawing animals, especially common animals such as cats, horses and dogs, we will have difficulty to make a drawing that will really be a pleasure to look at. So here I would suggest thinking and taking the time to improve this skill.

Take this as a huge open opportunity because many artists spend so much time perfecting their human drawing skill that animal drawing skill is hard to come by. If you are moderately good at drawing animals, you will be in a distinctly advantageous position as an artist.

So if you’re serious about making improvements to the drawing you produce, read the above hints and tips again and start using them today.

As a simple and fun exercise, keep some of the drawings you’ve produced now in a safe place where you can easily access them whenever you want. Now follow the given suggestions for 2 months. And at the end of the second month compare both sets of drawings and see the difference if you have been honest you will notice the difference yourself.

Remember that the techniques presented here are simple and doable, so you have no excuse to put off adopting them.

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