BODY BUILDING
Now that you’ve perfected the art of making your cartoon characters laugh, cry, and take a snooze, you can start designing the rest of the body. After all, your head needs a torso—not to mention arms, legs, feet, and hands! A good character drawing should look like a living, breathing person—not just a bunch of lines on a piece of paper. So take what you’ve learned about using basic shapes to build bodies and heads, and put them together to create the perfect cartoon character.
SIMPLIFYING THE STRUCTURE This baseball player is a solid-looking guy—there’s a firm structure underneath the finished drawing.
A character’s structure is ...
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