Friday, September 18, 2009

How To Draw Cartoons: Cartoon Anatomy

Learning how to draw cartoon is something that interests a lot of us. We all want to be able to draw those goof characters that go on different adventures, entertains us and make us laugh with their silly cartoon like actions. However a lot of beginning cartoonists ask the same question, a lot of them want to know if: "Do cartoon characters use the basics of human anatomy?" The answer to this question is, yes. However, not completely.

A cartoon character is an over exaggerated version of something or someone. Cartoon characters, cats, cars, trees... you get the point.

Cartoon characters do follow human anatomy to make them look human, but they don't completely. Large head and eyes, big nose,spiky hair, big feet, slouched body, are just some common differences. As you watch people draw cartoons and study them for your self you will not only see the human anatomy being put into use but also be able to see where cartoon artists exaggerate and where you can and should too. The basics is, cartooning.. has it's own anatomy based off of the anatomy of a human... so if you know human anatomy your one step closer to learning how to draw cartoons.

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