ART/VIDEOS  – How to Draw a Cute Cartoon Kitten Using Reference: Part 2

This is part 2 of the how to draw a cute kitten series.  If you’d like to see part 1 click the link below:

PART 1

In this video I cover basic design.  Once you have a flat basic shape to work off of, you can now start changing you’re drawing to something more cartoony.

This requires you to play around with shapes a bit.  I go over it in the video and show you how I’d go about doing it with this drawing.

How you enjoy.

Links Mention in the Video

Cartoon Animation (Collector’s Series)

Basic design: Stick figures, with style!:
http://www.thedrawingwebsite.com/2012/10/10/stick-figures-with-style-basic-design/

Simple Cartoon Characters from Flat Shapes:
http://www.thedrawingwebsite.com/2012/11/07/simple-cartoon-characters-from-flat-shapes/

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ART/VIDEOS  – How to Draw a Cute Cartoon Kitten Using Reference: Part 1

So you want to draw  a cartoon kitten and have plenty of reference but you don’t know where to begin.  The fur on it’s own is enough to overwhelm you.  So much detail there.  How could you even begin to draw all that?

Lucky for you this is a four part series that takes you though the process of drawing a cartoon kitten from scratch.  I’m going to warn you now that it’s not easy and it will take work and practice.  But if you stick to it, you may end up with something you can show off to your friends and family.

In this first video, I cover observational drawing. I show you one good method to draw what you see using simple flat shapes.

This video came about because a patron of mine, Anastasia, over on Patreon simply asked me how it was done. She was having trouble doing it herself.  Very ambitious.

Links From the Video

Basic Shapes:
http://www.thedrawingwebsite.com/2012/08/21/how-drawing-can-be-as-easy-for-you-as-writing-part-2-shapes-are-like-words/

Simple Cartoon Characters from Flat Shapes
http://www.thedrawingwebsite.com/2012/11/07/simple-cartoon-characters-from-flat-shapes/

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ART/VIDEO – Figuring Out the Anatomy of Cartoon Characters

Most cartoons have some basis of real exaggerated anatomy.  There are exceptions but for the most part this is true.

The reason for this is that many cartoons are drawn by people who have had some sort of tradition academic drawing training.  This is why it was interesting for me to be asked how to someone where to figure out a cartoon’s anatomy.

For the most part, you begin designing a cartoon using exaggerated anatomy.  However, this week I still made a video showing how this is so.  And I also show how have knowledge of anatomy also helps when figuring out the anatomy of characters that are very far away from looking anatomical.  Like The Simpsons.  

Books Mentioned in This Video

Living anatomy: A photographic atlas of muscles in action and surface contours

Artistic Anatomy

Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

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 ART/VIDEO – How to Add Exaggeration to a Naturalistic\ Realistic Drawing

Squash and stretch is an animation concept.  A concept that I explain in the video below. Sometimes this concept can be applied to a regular drawing.  When it is, how do you go about doing it?

I was asked by one of my readers about applying squash and stretch to different types of drawings.  I do my best to answer but the really, squash and stretch is more a motion thing that a drawing thing.

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