Traditional-Drawing Tutorial: Simple Tricks to Draw Your Own Cartoons

Here I am trying to show you how to draw cartoons. I will try to make as simple as possible. Drawing cartoons is very amusing. You will enjoy learning how to make figures. And maybe, you will also discover a new talent in yourself. This techniques can be applied on paper, but also in any digital photo editing program such as Photoshop.

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Step 1

Eager to start drawing a cartoon?
But FIRST, you should practice these lines....take a large page (newspapers are best for this practice), start drawing horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. Draw some curves.
Go on practicing the lines. After this you wont find yourself with shaking hands while drawing the cartoons, and you will draw with confidence and firmness of the lines.
So build your foundation solidly.

Step 2

We will start with drawing the head. Most important thing to remember while drawing a cartoon head is the shape of the head. Here I am mentioning few important shapes.
1. Round head
2. Square head
3. Egg shaped
4. Pear shaped
5. Rectangle shaped
6. Glass shaped
So you can create complex cartoons from simple shapes.

Step 3

How to draw a cartoon head:
Some people think that cartoons are a way of getting out of drawing things right, but good cartoons are well drawn.
step 1. Draw the shape of the head. I am drawing circle. Add guidelines. This way you will get the anatomy right.
step 2. Draw the eyes.
step 3. nose
step 4. draw ears and mouth
step 5. Now add hair style
step 6. Not that one? May be this one?

Step 4

A face can be looking up or down or anywhere. Guidelines are very helpful to get the head facing in right direction. So first draw the head then put guidelines. Then add eyes, nose, mouth.............etc.
Guidelines are for your help only. So draw them very lightly. You can aways erase them once you are done.

Step 5

Facial expressions are an important channel of nonverbal communication. Emotions are expressed mainly through the eyebrows and mouth

for example
Anger is denoted by drawing the eyebrows in a V-shape low over the eyes. Ecstasy is shown by half closed eyes and a huge smile. To draw a scared cartoon expression make the eyes wide. for a surprised face draw big eyes and o-shaped mouth.

You can see some expressions drawn below.

Step 6

Here I have shown step by step process of drawing a cartoon head.
There are 3 heads, egg-shaped, pear-shaped and rectangle.
First draw the guidelines. Then you can draw eyes, lips, nose etc..........
Now make the outline of the head clearer and give it some hairstyle.

Step 7

Draw the movement of action for your cartoon. For this draw the guidelines.
Draw circles to get the shape of the body. Then draw the facial expressions and the body. After all this, draw the clothes and other accessories.

Step 8

Mouths is an important characteristic of a cartoon character. It changes the expressions.
You can always draw a mouth using a line or a circle.
Just try different style .Once you found the one that you like the most, practice and practice again until you get it done.
Here are some examples.

Step 9

A person's thoughts can be ascertained by looking in his or her eyes.The eyes are simply the most expressive part of funny cartoon faces, and almost every emotion can be shown through the proper illustration of eyes.
Here I have tried to capture a few expressions.

Step 10

Hands

First draw a circle, second step is add the thumb and then add fingers....Erase extra lines

Step 11

These hands are drawn with the same process described above...Its easy....just keep practicing .

Step 12

Using these simple steps, you can create your own cartoons.....

28 Comments:

nishagandhi says:

wow this is way too cool Niks!! love this!!

(1 year and 183 days ago)

Guest says:

That was a wonderful tutorial. I tried one and came out well. as you had you have made it as simple as possible. Thanks.

(1 year and 183 days ago)

apixeldot says:

Nice tutorial.
So much to learn,,,even in simple Cartoons.

(1 year and 183 days ago)

niks1351 says:

Thank u all...I wish to see your cartoons....

(1 year and 182 days ago)

Guest says:

Compact... Detailed tutorial... I liked this...

(1 year and 180 days ago)

Guest says:

ya............ it learn to easy... i need more cortoon diagram. like as bud car and animals.....thank you...........

(1 year and 180 days ago)

sithees says:

nice....thanks my friend

(1 year and 180 days ago)

Guest tom says:

I have seen dozens of sites on cartooning and this is the best. Its simplicity is what caught my attention. My cartooning skills have improved tenfold and I am getting positive comments now. I now draw with confidence.I can't thankyou enough for this amazing simple cartoon tutorial.

(1 year and 179 days ago)

hereisanoop says:

very good and useful

(1 year and 179 days ago)

Guest says:

helps alot... tks

(1 year and 175 days ago)

Sandeepan says:

wow.. awesome..I am a budding cartoonist..till now i am using stick figures to convey my message..but this is awesome..just what i was looking for.. check out my website too if you have any suggestion
www.theflipped.com

(1 year and 167 days ago)

Guest says:

cooool

(1 year and 165 days ago)

kiarina3 says:

very good i learnt a lot but wats with the dirty paper for the result?
wat is that green stuff??
anyway i luv it!!

(1 year and 150 days ago)

Guest says:

nice
but wats with the dirty paper??

(1 year and 150 days ago)

niks1351 says:

sorry about the unwanted spots...Actually I accidentally got my scanner dirty with paint....

(1 year and 148 days ago)

fast rider says:

likely helpful to study................keep on

(1 year and 144 days ago)

Guest says:

it,s nice to make a cartoon

(1 year and 140 days ago)

unknown says:

by this wonderful tutorial you made cartooning look so easy in my eyes its really brief and not confusing and last but not least after all what you have done my tech's are really improving

(1 year and 124 days ago)

Guest says:

Nice examples & easy to understand. Bless u for sharing your talents.

(1 year and 120 days ago)

Brett Widmann says:

These are really nice drawings. They are step by step and very helpful! Thanks.

(1 year and 94 days ago)

Guest says:

good, really nice drawing

(1 year and 82 days ago)

adil says:

I like the way the tutorial has designed
thanks.

(1 year and 71 days ago)

Divyaraj says:

It was really great to check more than once......... lovelly tips and tutorial..... just upload some other and if u have many just let me know to this site plzz..
f.raj1989@gmail.com

(190 days ago)

Guest says:

How cute

(164 days ago)

karala..ankit.mathur says:

its great thanks....

(133 days ago)

hamid from iran says:

tanks its very useful.

(74 days ago)

Swati mhatre says:

very useful.

(67 days ago)

Guest says:

awsome

(54 days ago)

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