Drawing Cartoons

Drawing a cartoon

In my childhood I had a lot of colored pencils. But I could not draw and did not want to draw. I wanted to become a firefighter.

I started painting at school. Once I was instructed to make a drawing for the wall newspaper and I so entered into the taste that I graduated from an art college.

I admit, the still life staged with the typical dilapidated draperies and artificial fruits always seemed to me suffocatingly academic. I love cartoons. And in my childhood I loved, and now I remain faithful to the ideals of youth.

But still I'm very glad that at the institute we were taught to draw according to the classical canons of painting and drawing. Portrait, a figure in space, color, volume - all this is very good, right and necessary. Therefore, gradually, I chose for myself a style of work in which the academic drawing and cartoons coexist peacefully. I draw cartoons. Caricatures and cartoons.

Many people are wondering what is the artist's talent? How to learn to draw? In secret, I will tell you how a person who has been tortured for a long time by a classical school, that for learning, talent is not so important. Someone has the ability of a draftsman in the blood, someone does not have any foreign substances - all this is insignificant compared to constant practice and well-trained skills. You can also teach a hare to smoke, but only the meaning is zero, if it does not get pleasure. If you like drawing, it means everything is in order. Draw as you like. I'll tell you about what to look for when we draw a cartoon.

If you work in watercolor, do not skimp on paper. Take a good dense watercolor paper, better Italian. When you adjust the picture, the thickness of the paper will allow you to tweak or blur the desired areas. With cheap paper, this number will not pass, because it immediately swells and it will appear pellets.

Try to accurately convey the character of the person being charred. The main thing - do not overdo it with exaggerating proportions, it can offend a person. Your goal is not to ridicule him, but to beat his dignity, smoothing flattery with a comic form.

Exaggerate not shortcomings, but advantages. A strong chin, long legs, a magnificent bust, hairy muscular arms, huge eyes, thin fingers, an extensive thinker's forehead - each has its own zest in appearance. The same goes for the character. One is a dreamy romantic, the other is an energetic business lady, the third is a macho, the fourth is a jokester and a joker. Find in your model what you like yourself, and make the image found hypertrophically charming.

Do not try to draw quickly. If you are not yet a professional, then you do not need to make a cartoon urgently.

Do not be afraid of bright colors. Bright colors always please the eye.

But do not forget that the colors should be in harmony. The use of non-matching colors is a very common mistake of the beginning artist. At school he immediately put a stake on it. Therefore, the first thing he should do is not to be too lazy, look into the color chart and learn what colors are warm and which are cold. And try not to mix them up.

Strive to ensure that the objects and figures depicted on the cartoon were voluminous.

Practice an economical manner of drawing - a minimum of lines at their maximum expressiveness. Imagine that you are a Chinese who seeks to comprehend the dao of calligraphy.

I give you the installation: you are a Chinese who diligently draws the same line until it is perfect. Time after time, you do a stroke with a brush, gradually approaching perfection.

In this case, you are even in a more favorable position than the ancient sage: if you draw on a tablet in a graphics program, then you have no problems with the translation of paper.