How to Draw the Body on a Cartoon Character

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Hi, I'm Danny Page on behalf of Expert Village, in this series I am going to teach you how to draw basic cartoon characters. Okay, so as we move into these next steps, I'm going to be going less and less in fact hardly at all back to those other experimental pages cause honestly the hardest part of our work is done. We pretty much have our character here now, here he is in all his glory. And this is, you know, if you?re starting out and you have some ideas for a cartoon series or a comic strip. This is really what you would do; you would start with the head. And once you kind of have the head you really have I would say about ninety percent of the character. So we are not going to be experimenting so much with body type any more. Instead, I'm just kind of do what the head tells me to do and just kind of go at it free hand. So the next step is going to be the body. So, the body, we are going to start with kind of two different steps. The one thing I am going to be doing here for the purpose of this video I am going to be drawing sort of a caricature and that his head is going to be significantly bigger proportioned than the rest of his body. That's mainly just so you can kind of see the head. Everything else will be just a little bit smaller so that the head really pops out. But, when we draw the body we're really going to do it in two steps. We're going to the do the upper body first and the lower body later and we'll do in a separate clip. But for now, we're just going to go and start with the upper body. Now, I kind of had an idea for what I wanted to do with the upper body when I first sort of pre-visualized the character. So I just going to kind of follow that little rough plan. And then again, you should have, I've actually gone to a new blank page now, you should have that rough outline that you had drawn before to help kind of guide you as you go along here. Now, what I'm doing here is I'm giving this guy a long sleeved shirt sort of folded up at the sleeves, rolled up, button down thing. There we got his arms and maybe just kind of leave it right there like that. We're not going to get into much detailing at this point but this will be the basic idea for upper body. And like I said, we can give him different outfits as we progress and kind of develop his character. But for now here we go. This is the look for our new little character here and we'll move on to the next step.

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