How Do You Make A Cartoon Character?
“Joel Hickerson, GrinDog.com. Today we’re going to learn how to make a cartoon character. The first thing you want to think about is what is it going to be, a male or a female, is it an animal, what their personality is like are they aggressive, are they docile, what activity they’re going to perform. For the sake of a quick look, let’s say we have a dog, a male dog. So we build our dog and we think about what makes this a male dog versus a female dog as far as an activity, maybe he can be thinking about something, maybe a little thought bubble over here. I think he’s going to be a male so what makes this dog a male? It could be just the fact he’s got a heavy brow, you know. So we’re going to build our dog, our basic construction elements of our dog in pencil. You’ll see I’ve got about a million lines around, well that’s okay because I’m going to come back with a dark marker and just pick the lines I like and another thing that might make him a male dog is if we name him something like
